Feast of the Assumption

I was recently out for a ‘mid-Summer’ stroll in Kill and got drenched by our ‘mid-Summer’ weather. Because I wear glasses, one of the first casualties of the rain drops is clear vision … raindrops running down the lens puts the world out of focus. It’s remarkable really, if you are used to wearing eyeglasses or sunglasses, you don’t really notice that the glasses are there. The cleaner the glasses, the more the light can shine through. While helping us to see a little more clearly, the glasses in themselves ‘fade’ into the background and out of our consciousness.

We often connect the month of May and the month of October with Our Lady, yet in August we have a very important Marian feast. Mary – like eyeglasses – helps us to see the light of God’s love a little more clearly.  She enabled Jesus to be born in time, Jesus became the focus while she was ever present at key moments from birth to Cana to Gethsemane. Our faith-filled Lady never got in the way, never blurred our vision. Mary in many respects faded into the background, her purity and humility always directing us to the Saviour.

On the feast of the Ascension this year (May 12th) we celebrated the crowning of Jesus in his rightful place in heaven. On August 15th every year we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption … the crowning of Mary in her rightful place in heaven.  Mary is our mother and can guide us to our place in heaven.
Join with us in celebrating her Assumption into heaven on August 15th with Mass 10.00am in Kill or 8.00pm in Ardclough. 

With every blessing.

Fr. Joe O’Neill