On 15th August, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  It is a day of thanksgiving to God for the great honour bestowed on Mary, the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Church teaches that at the end of her earthly life Mary, was assumed body and soul into heaven.
 
Because of Blessed Mary’s  immaculate conception in view of her role in the history of salvation and because of her sinless life, her body was not subjected to decay and corruption. Mary was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven, and with God and in God she is Queen of heaven and earth.
 
Pope Benedict XVI teaches that the feast of the Assumption is a day of joy. “It is a day of joy because God has won. Love has won. It has won life. Love has shown that it is stronger than death, that God possesses the true strength and that his strength is goodness and love." Mary was taken up body and soul into heaven: There is even room in God for the body. Heaven is no longer a very remote sphere unknown to us. 
 
Mary’s Assumption speaks of the present and the future. “In the Most Holy Virgin the Church has already reached that perfection whereby she exists without spot or wrinkle” (John Paul II). The feast speaks also of the future: our life is not limited to the horizontal relations, to earthly needs and associations. According to the teaching of the Church, “God created us to know him, to love him, to serve him in order to be with him in heaven.” Indeed heaven is our goal; it is our destiny.
 
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in heaven means that we have a Mother in heaven. And the Mother of God is our Mother. Christ himself has said so. He made Mary our Mother when he said to the disciple and to all of us: "Behold, your Mother!"
 
While on earth, the Blessed Virgin Mary was close to a few. But in heaven she is close to all. For, being in God and with God, she is close to each one of us, knows our hearts, can hear our prayers, can help us with her motherly kindness.
 
She participates in the power of the Son and in his goodness. We can always entrust the whole of our lives to this Mother, who is not far from any one of us.
 
She is a mother to whom we can turn at every moment.