[Catholic/Devotional Caucus] The Forgotten Customs of Assumption Day

[Catholic/Devotional Caucus] The Forgotten Customs of Assumption Day You have crowned the year with your bounty, and your paths overflow with a rich harvest; The untilled meadows overflow with it, and rejoicing clothes the hills. The fields are garmented with flocks and the valleys blanketed with grain. They shout and sing for joy.-Blessing of Herbs on Assumption DayThe Importance of the Liturgical Year The Church’s Liturgical Year is a harmonious interplay of feasts and fasts interwoven in both the temporal and sanctoral cycles that define the rhythm and rhyme of Catholic life. In days gone by, cycles of feasts punctuated...