Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary

On August 15th, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary.  It is on this day that we celebrate Mary be brought into Heaven, body and soul.  When we die we wait for our bodies to be reunited with our souls in Heaven, but Mary the Mother of God did not have to wait because she was without sin. 

There are many Marian feast days in which we celebrate Mary throughout the liturgical season and this one will always remain truly special to our family.  Today, August 15th, was the due date of our little saint Samuel who we lost by miscarriage earlier this year.  I know through the experience of losing Samuel that God and Mary have truly untied our family closer together, and we look forward to the day we can all be together as an entire family in Heaven.  Today to remember our sweet Samuel we went to the cemetery and prayed the Hail Mary as a family.  We also wrote messages to Samuel and sent them in balloons up to Heaven.  This was a little way that the other children could feel like they were involved by sending messages and prayers on this special day.

 

To learn more about Mary and the Assumption we continued with our great Art 1 book from Seton by making a banner for Mary.  We took the picture of Mary that the book provided, colored it, used cotton balls for the clouds, glitter and crayons to decorate and put it all together on blue construction paper!  It was a lot of fun!

 

 

 

We also made the Assumption Cake with the recipe from Holy Heroes to eat with our lunch!  As it says at Holy Heroes "The Angel Food cake reminds us of the angels in Heaven, and the berries are blue, for our Blessed Mother."  We also did add some whipped cream on top for clouds as suggested!  It was a yummy treat to help us celebrate the Assumption of Mary!

 

 

 

Mother Mary, pray for us!