Roman Catholics commemorate Tuesday 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 on Aug. 15.
At the Mary the Queen Parish in San Juan City, a fiesta mass was held on Sunday, Aug. 20 at 6 p.m. On Aug. 22, Fr. Adriano Tapiador, S.J. will preside over a mass in honor of the feast at 6 p.m.
This year marks the 69th parish fiesta. Novena masses were offered from Aug. 13 to 21.
Commemorative masses will also be held in several other parishes under the patronage of Mary the Queen such as in Novaliches, Quezon City to coincide with the 34th parish fiesta.
Marian devotees will pray the holy rosary, including the Litany of the Blessed Mother, which proclaims her queenship in twelve instances.
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