HEY, AUGUST 15–A.K.A. FRIDAY–is the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It’s a Holy Day of Obligation. Go to church!

If you’re Christian but not Catholic… take some time on Friday to think about Our Lady as Ark of the Covenant; or her lifting-up after such great sorrow as a parallel to Christ’s lifting on the Cross; or her Heaven, with her Son.