August 15, 2021 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

Our Cathedral is dedicated to her

PRAYER FOR THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN

O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God and Mother of men,
we believe in your taking body and soul to heaven,
where you are acclaimed by all the choirs of angels and by all the hosts of the saints.
And we join them to praise and bless the Lord who has exalted you above all creatures and to offer you the yearning of our devotion and our love.
We trust that your merciful eyes will lower themselves on our miseries and on our sufferings; may your lips smile at our joys and our victories; that you hear the voice of Jesus repeat to each of us: Behold your son.
And we invoke you our mother and we take you, like John, for guidance, strength and consolation of our mortal life.
We believe that in glory, where you reign clothed with the sun and crowned with stars, you are the joy and gladness of the angels and saints.
And we in this land, where we pass pilgrims, look towards you, our hope; draw us with the sweetness of your voice to show us one day, after our exile, Jesus, blessed fruit of your womb, o merciful, o pious, o sweet Virgin Mary.
(Pius XII)