The Monday after Pentecost will mark the "Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church", the Vatican said, making May 21 feast day.

The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated by Catholics each year on Aug. 15. The day celebrates the assumption of Mary's body and soul into heaven.

The Vatican published a decree Saturday in which Francis declared that the Mary "Mother of the Church" feast would be celebrated on the Monday following Pentecost. This year, it falls on May 21.

In keeping with the feast of Mary the Mother of God, we look to what Luke says about her and what that reveals about us and our life. The key line is “Mary kept all these things, reflecting on ...

This feast day, of Jan. 1, is a very complex tapestry, both culturally and liturgically. It is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, but we also recognize the Octave of Christmas, the Circumcision ...

Pope Francis' Angelus message on Jan. 1, 2023, marked the solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. An estimated 40,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square for the event.

Planning: Mary, Mother of God. By: Lawrence Mick. Every year this day presents us with a plethora of potential themes. A primary one, of course, is reflected in the title of the Solemnity: Mary ...

It was Pope Pius XII who formally “confirmed this belief about the Virgin Mary as a dogma of Catholic faith in 1950, invoking papal infallibility to proclaim that the Immaculate Mother of God ...

Mary was also with them! Recognizing the need to honor the special role of the Blessed Mother on this day, Pope Francis added a new feast day in 2018 celebrating Mary as Mother of the Church. It is ...

Jan. 1, the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, proclaims the accessibility of our Catholic faith — it is human, incarnate, tangible — even as it calls us to the higher things ...

Today’s feast reminds us of her role in salvation history as both the mother of God and the mother of the church. The unselfconscious way she gave herself to her son’s mission is the best gift ...

(December 8) Introductory Prayer. God of mercies, your only Son, while hanging on the cross, appointed Mary, his mother, to be our mother also. Like her, and under her loving care, ...