Simple Celebrations: The Assumption

This year, we will not be home on the Solemnity of the Assumption, so I won't be able to lay out a table to greet my children with an Assumption Day meal.  Still, I have been enjoying looking back at some of the fun Assumption group gatherings and lovely eats and activities that my children, our friends, and I have shared through the years. I am also appreciating our simpler celebration, like last year's when we picked some flowers from the yard - including some blue ones for Mary...

... laid them out with simple eats (blueberries for Our Lady, white banana for he purity, red raspberries for her love, waffles for the earth, and ice cream, yogurt, and whip cream for the heavens)...

... placed a candle and prayer book along with them...

... and with bleary eyed kids...

...enjoyed top-your-own Assumption day waffles.

Some smiling...

Some more serious...

All coming together to slip some prayer and celebration into a busy summer day.

Pausing to pray. Living the liturgical year. Making memories. It can be simple.

May you have a beautiful Solemnity of the Assumption.

 Almighty ever-living God, who assumed the Immaculate Virgin Mary, the Mother of your Son, body and soul into heavenly glory, grant we pray, that, always attentive to the things that are above, we may merit to be sharers of her glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. ~the Collect