Daily Offering to the Immaculate Heart
“O Immaculate Heart of Mary, I consecrate myself to you. Take my heart and make it more like yours: pure, trusting, faithful, and surrendered to God. Intercede for me, and lead me always to your Son. Amen.”
This month, place your daily joys and trials into the heart that pondered all things, trusted God in all things, and stood faithful beneath the Cross.
🧘♂️ Monthly Meditation: Assumed into Glory – Our Blessed Hope
Close your eyes. Imagine a quiet home in Ephesus. Mary, aged but radiant, lives in peace, in prayer, in closeness to the Father. She knows her time is near—not a fearsome death, but a passing into Life.
And when the hour comes, she closes her eyes and her soul soars. Angels carry her. The gates of heaven are opened. The Queen enters.
Assumed body and soul into heaven, she reminds us: this world is not our end. Her Assumption is not just her reward—it is our hope. Where she has gone, we may follow.
Let this be your meditation: I am made for heaven. I am not made for despair. I am not made for sin. I am made for glory.
Let Mary’s Assumption draw your eyes upward.
📆 Key Dates in the Catholic Calendar – August 2025
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1 August (Friday) – St Alphonsus Liguori
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4 August (Monday) – St John Vianney
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6 August (Wednesday) – The Transfiguration of the Lord
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8 August (Friday) – St Dominic
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11 August (Monday) – St Clare of Assisi
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14 August (Thursday) – St Maximilian Kolbe
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15 August (Friday) – The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Holy Day of Obligation)
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20 August (Wednesday) – St Bernard of Clairvaux
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22 August (Friday) – The Queenship of Mary
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27 August (Wednesday) – St Monica
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28 August (Thursday) – St Augustine
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29 August (Friday) – The Passion of St John the Baptist
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Every Saturday – Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
✝️ The Scriptural Witness
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Luke 1:46–55 – “My soul magnifies the Lord…” (Mary’s Magnificat)
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Revelation 12:1 – “A woman clothed with the sun…”
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Genesis 3:15 – “I will put enmity between you and the woman…”
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Luke 2:19 – “Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.”
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1 Corinthians 15:52 – “We shall all be changed—in a moment…”
The Church teaches the Assumption not just from pious tradition but in the light of Scripture and the dignity of Mary’s singular role. She is the Ark of the New Covenant – pure, untouched by corruption, fitting to be raised into glory.
🌹 Devotion in Practice
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Pray the Rosary daily, especially the Glorious Mysteries
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Attend Mass on 15 August – it’s not just a feast, it’s a glimpse of your future
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First Saturdays – Offer reparation to the Immaculate Heart
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Make an Act of Consecration to Mary’s Immaculate Heart
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Wear the Brown Scapular (if enrolled), or carry a blessed Miraculous Medal
“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” – Our Lady of Fatima
🔥 Saints of August Who Loved Mary
- St John Vianney – “If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help.”
- St Maximilian Kolbe – Martyred on 14 August, called Mary the “Immaculata” and gave his life for another.
- St Bernard of Clairvaux – “In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary.”
- St Monica – Prayed unceasingly for her son’s conversion under the mantle of Mary.
- St Augustine – Her prayers led him from heresy to holiness.
✒️ A Poem for August: “Queen Assumed”
O lifted Queen, no tomb could keep
The vessel that bore Love so deep.
Not clay, nor earth, nor silent stone,
Could claim the Mother on her own.
The heavens opened, trumpets rang,
And angels with Hosannas sang.
No trace of death, no shadowed night—
Just rising light and blazing white.
O Mary, draw our hearts above,
Teach us your faith, your trust, your love.
Assumed in splendour, help us rise—
To gaze one day in heaven’s eyes.
⛪ At Every Mass
“May we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled Himself to share in our humanity.” – Roman Missal
Every Mass is a meeting of heaven and earth. Mary, assumed into glory, stands with us at every Eucharist, praying with and for the Church.
Her Assumption shows us what God can do with a soul that says yes. Let each Communion be your yes – your preparation for glory.
🧠 The 24/7 Catholic Quiz – Mary and the Assumption
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What does the dogma of the Assumption teach?
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Which Pope formally defined the Assumption as dogma?
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In what year was the Assumption defined?
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What is the only Marian dogma not yet officially declared?
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What book speaks of a woman “clothed with the sun”?
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Who is called the Ark of the New Covenant?
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What feast follows the Assumption on 22 August?
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What does “Immaculate Heart” refer to?
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What apparition said “My Immaculate Heart will triumph”?
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Who founded the Militia Immaculatae?
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Which saint called Mary “the ladder to heaven”?
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What is the significance of Mary’s Magnificat?
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What prayer repeats “Blessed art thou among women”?
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Who said, “To Jesus through Mary”?
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What colour is used liturgically for Marian feasts?
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Name one Marian devotion encouraged on Saturdays.
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What Marian title was invoked at Lepanto?
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What Marian dogma preceded the Assumption?
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Name the mystery of the Rosary that includes the Assumption.
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What’s one thing you’ll do to honour Mary this August?
✅ Quiz Answers
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Mary was taken body and soul into heaven
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Pope Pius XII
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1950
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Mary as Co-Redemptrix (not formally defined)
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Revelation 12
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Mary
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Queenship of Mary
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Her inner purity, love, and sinlessness
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Our Lady of Fatima
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St Maximilian Kolbe
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St Bernard of Clairvaux
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Her song of praise and prophecy
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The Hail Mary
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St Louis de Montfort
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White or blue (in some regions)
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First Saturday Devotion
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Our Lady of Victory
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The Immaculate Conception (1854)
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The Fourth Glorious Mystery
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(Your answer!)
📍 Parish Invitation – “Behold Your Mother”
This August, walk with Mary. Come to Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in New Milton, and honour the one who always leads us to Christ.
Whether you’re returning to the sacraments or seeking stillness amid the storms of life, she is your mother. And we are your family.
Come home. Come be held. Come be lifted at
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, New Milton, Hampshire
✨ Coming Next Month: 1 September 2025
The Sorrowful Mother and the Triumph of the Cross
Devotion, suffering, victory – and the saints who show us how to carry our own cross.
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