Roman Catholics will mark Monday, Aug. 22, the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, a corollary of the Marian Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was observed last Aug. 15.
At the Mary the Queen Parish in Novaliches, Quezon City, Novaliches Bishop Roberto O. Gaa celebrated the fiesta mass on Saturday, Aug. 20 at 5 p.m. to coincide with the 33rd parish fiesta. Novena masses were offered from Aug. 11 to 19.
At the Mary the Queen Parish in Greenhills, San Juan City, Fr. J. Cesar R. Marin, SJ, presided over the fiesta mass at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21 to coincide with the 68th parish fiesta. Holy masses were also held at 6 a.m., 8 a.m. and at 12 noon. A special mass for wedding anniversary celebrants was held at 10 a.m. Novena masses were offered from Augu.12 to 20.
Eucharistic celebrations in several Catholic churches and Marian shrines across the country will also be offered Monday in commemoration of the feast.
Marian devotees will pray the holy rosary, including the Litany of the Blessed Mother, which proclaims her queenship in twelve instances. The Church encourages the faithful to include in their intentions prayers for an end to the pandemic.
Pope Pius XII, in his encyclical letter Ad Caeli Reginam (To the Queen of Heaven), instituted the feast on Oct. 11, 1954. “The Blessed Mother is the Queen of Heaven and Earth because she is the Mother of God and because of her preeminent perfection and her intercessory power. Mary is queen by grace, by divine relationship, by right of conquest, and by singular election,” the late Pontiff said.