Religious Holidays - Day of the Dead, Moveable Feast, Palm Sunday, Mothering Sunday, Assumption of Mary, Lent, Easter Monday (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Day of the Dead, Moveable feast, Palm Sunday, Mothering Sunday, Assumption of Mary, Lent, Easter Monday, National Day of Prayer, Nativity Fast, Ryukyan festivals and observances, Store Bededag, Trinity Sunday, List of Sindhi festivals, Muslim holidays, Asatru holidays, Holy Wednesday, Scientology holidays, Crucession, Apostles' Fast, Easter Saturday, Royal Hours, Evolution Sunday, Dydd Santes Dwynwen, Satanic holidays, Meskel, Easter Friday, Silence Day, Amartithi, Yukka Nu Hii, Feast of the Holy Sovereigns, Zartosht No-Diso, Buhe, Virgen de los Angeles, Racial Justice Sunday, Earth Day Sunday, Church Fall Festival. Excerpt: According to the belief of Christians of the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and parts of the Anglican Communion and Continuing Anglicanism, the Assumption of Mary was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her life. The Roman Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." This doctrine was dogmatically and infallibly defined by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950, in his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus. This belief is known as the Dormition of the Theotokos by the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches. In the churches which observe it, the Assumption is a major feast day, commonly celebrated on August 15. In many countries it is a Catholic Holy Day of Obligation. In his August 15, 2004, homily given at Lourdes, Pope John Paul II quoted John 14:3 as one of the scriptural bases for understanding the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. In this verse, Jesus tells his disciples at the Last Supper, "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am...