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Aug. 15 - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
A Holy Day of Obligation - For Mass times, visit your parish website or Facebook page
Corpus Christi - 1616 N. Kelley Ave. - 12:10 p.m.
St. John the Baptist - 900 S. Littler Ave., Edmond - 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 6:30 p.m.
Christ the King- 8005 Dorset Dr. - 6:30 a.m., 8:15 a.m., Noon, 7 p.m.
St. Joseph Old Cathedral - 307 N.W. 4 - Noon, 6:30 p.m.
Sacred Heart - 2706 S. Shartel Ave. - English 7 a.m., Spanish 6:30 p.m.
St. Joseph - 421 E. Acres, Norman - Noon (chapel), English 6:30 p.m., Spanish 8 p.m.
Holy Spirit - 1100 N. Sara Rd., Mustang - English 8:30 a.m., English 6:15 p.m., Spanish 7:30 p.m.
Blessed Sacrament - 12 S.W. 7, Lawton - 7:30 a.m., 8:45 a.m., 7 p.m.
St. Francis of Assisi - 1901 N.W. 18 - 9 a.m., 7 p.m. -
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Holy Day of Obligation for both Roman and Eastern-rite Catholics, on which they are obliged to attend Mass or Divine Liturgy.
This significant feast day recalls the spiritual and physical departure of the mother of Jesus Christ from the earth, when both her soul and her body were taken into the presence of God.
Although the bodily assumption of Mary is not explicitly recorded in Scripture, Catholic tradition identifies her with the “woman clothed with the sun” who is described in the 12th chapter of the Book of Revelation.
The passage calls that woman's appearance “a great sign” which “appeared in heaven,” indicating that she is the mother of the Jewish Messiah and has “the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12 stars.” Accordingly, Catholic iconography often depicts the Virgin Mary's assumption into heaven in this manner.