Between May and August, the liturgical calendar offers five encounters with the Virgin Mary. Each has its own landscape, its own traditions, and its own theology.
Ask most Catholics which Marian feast falls in summer and they will say the Assumption—and they will be right. But it is not the only one. Between late May and mid-August, the Church places five distinct celebrations of the Virgin Mary in the calendar, each with its own theological character, its own history, and even its own geography. Four of them pass largely unnoticed for most. They deserve better.
The Visitation
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