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The Significance of the Assumption
Mary shows the more noble status to which humanity has been elevated by Redemption in Christ
By John M. Grondelski | August 15th 2025 11:50 AMThe Solemnity of the Assumption is these days an underappreciated and undervalued holy day. Indeed, next year it won’t even be a feast of precept (a holy day of obligation) because of the American bishops’ “Saturday-or-Monday-get-out-of-Church-free-on-certain-holy-days” rule. The Assumption stands in a straight line from Easter to the Ascension (another…
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