In preparation for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, the annual Novena begins in our church on Friday 7 August and concludes on Saturday 15 August (the day before the transferred feast day, Sunday 16 August). On weekdays the Novena will be prayed in the church after the 6.30am and 8.30am Masses and will also be observed on Sunday. All are most warmly invited to join in our Novena!
Hail, holy Queen enthroned above; O Maria!
Hail, mother of mercy and of love, O Maria!
Triumph, all ye cherubim;
Sing with us, ye seraphim!
Heav’n and earth resound the hymn:
Salve, salve, salve, Regina!
From a hymn by Contractus Hermannus, c. 1080