Joliet Catholic Academy will be celebrating the Feast of the Assumption with a 12:15 p.m. Mass on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 immediately following Freshman Orientation. JCA students, families, and friends are invited to attend. Freshmen parents may attend after 12:00 pickup.

On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary to be a dogma of faith: “We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.” The pope proclaimed this dogma only after a broad consultation of bishops, theologians and laity. There were few dissenting voices. What the pope solemnly declared was already a common belief in the Catholic Church.