Assumption of Mary

While most days on the Catholic calendar are feast days for various saints, there are other days that celebrate special events, such as Jesus' birth. Today is one such day; August 15 is set aside to celebrate the Assumption of Mary, when the mother of Jesus supposedly ascended to heaven, body and all, in the same fashion that Jesus supposedly had.

I usually try to put a the-moral-of-this-story-is spin on the SOTD (saint-of-the-day) pieces on this blog, but there really isn't one here. All I can really say about the Assumption of Mary is that I don't really buy it. The whole virgin birth, Jesus rising from the dead like a holy zombie, then ascending into the clouds, then Mary following him however many years later in the same fashion thing is a little too much for me to swallow. So I don't really have much to say about the Catholic thing today, except to let you know what they're doing today.