Month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Immaculate Heart of Mary

The month of August is dedicated to The Immaculate Heart of Mary.  With Immaculate Heart of Mary, let us adore, thank, implore and console the Most Beloved and Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

The Holy Father's Intentions for the Month of August 2011 VATICAN CITY, 29 JUL 2011 (VIS) – Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for August is: “That World Youth Day in Madrid may encourage young people throughout the world to have their lives rooted and built up in Christ”.

His mission intention is: “That Western Christians may be open to the action of the Holy Spirit and rediscover the freshness and enthusiasm of their faith”. (See also http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/), Please read the following links.

• Answers you Need on “Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary”
• DEFINING THE DOGMA OF THE ASSUMPTION (POPE PIUS XII)
• THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI “St Thomas of Villanova Parish, Castel Gandolfo Sunday 15 August 2010”.
• Novena to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary form EWTN.

Highlights of the Month of August 

• Monday, August 01, 2011 St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, Doctor of the Church (Memorial) St. Alphonsus de Liguori was a great preacher of the Gospel to the poor. His charity and apostolic spirit led him to found the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer to carry on this work. He sent his Redemptorists, as our Lord did the Apostles, into the countryside and the market towns and villages, to announce the Kingdom of God. He became Bishop of Sant' Agata dei Goti, near Naples, and died at the age of ninety, in 1787. For his great works on Moral Theology he has been declared a Doctor of the Church.
• Tuesday, August 02, 2011 Our Lady of the Angels of Portiuncula (Solemnity)
• Thursday, August 04, 2011 St. John Mary Vianney, Priest (Memorial) St. John Baptist Mary Vianney (1786-1859) was born in Dardilly and died in Ars, France. Although his talents were limited and his education meager, he was ordained a priest in 1815. After three years at Ecully, he was appointed parish priest of Ars. Here he spent almost forty-two years of his life, devoting himself to prayer, mortification, and pastoral works. His success in directing souls made him known throughout the Christian world. Men of all ranks and conditions of life sought his guidance and advice. He was beatified by Pope St. Pius X, himself once a parish priest, and canonized by Pope Pius XI.
• Saturday, August 06, 2011 The Transfiguration of the Lord (Feast)
• Sunday, August 7-22, 2011 / 1-15 ነሓሰ 2003 ምህልላ ፍልሰታ ይጅምር
• Monday, August 08, 2011 Holy Father Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers (Feast)
• Thursday, August 11, 2011 St. Clare of Assisi, Virgin, Foundress of II Order (Feast) he foundress of the Order of the Poor Clares, whose emblem refers to her dispersion of Saracen invaders by facing them, bearing the Blessed Sacrament, in defense of the convent.
• Monday, August 15, 2011The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity) On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII defined the dogma of the Assumption. He solemnly proclaimed that the belief whereby the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the end of her life on earth, was taken up body and soul, into the glory of heaven, definitively forms part of the deposit of faith, received from the apostles.
• Friday, August 19, 2011 / 13 ነሓሰ 2003 ደብረ ታቦር (TRANSFIGURATION).
• Saturday, August 20, 2011 St. Bernard, Abbot, Doctor of the Church (Memorial) St. Bernard (1090-1153) was born near Dijon and died in Clairvaux, France. He was of a noble family and received a careful education in his youth. With his father, brother and thirty noblemen he entered the Benedictine monastery of Citeaux. Two years later he led a group of monks to establish a house at Clairvaux, and became its abbot. The monastic rule which he perfected at Clairvaux became the model for 163 monasteries of the Cistercian reform. He was a theologian, poet, orator, and writer. He is sometimes considered as a Father of the Church.
• Sunday, August 21 / 16 ነሓሰ 2003 በዓለ ፍልሰታ ለማርያም “እግዚእትነ ማርያም ብነፍሳን ብሥግአን ናብ ሰማይ ዝፈለሰትሉ ዕለት””
• Monday, August 22, 2011The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Memorial)
• Monday August 29, 2011 The Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist (Memorial)

Trivia Questions of the Month (Please Post your answers and comments)

1. Who is the patron saint of Chandlers (candle-makers), beekeepers, bees, Gibraltar, Queens College Cambridge, wax-melters, wax refiners?
2. Which Pope defined the dogma of the Assumption?
3. Who is the patron Saint of Television?
4. Who is the patron saint of Astronomers and Scientists?