Our Lady of the Herbs: herbs, flowers and the harvest wreath
On the Solemnity of the Assumption we will bless herbs at every Mass. The wreath is being prepared by Dąbrówka.
On the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 August, Masses will follow the Sunday timetable: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, the main Mass at 12:00 and the evening Mass at 18:00, and in the chapel in Zalesie at 8:30.
At every Mass we will bless herbs, flowers and fruit. In our part of the country this feast is called Our Lady of the Herbs and is linked with the end of the harvest. Please bring your bouquets at the start of the liturgy, not just for the blessing — that makes it easier to keep order in the pews.
This year the harvest wreath is being prepared by Dąbrówka Wierzbnicka. It will be carried in procession at the main Mass and will remain in front of Our Lady's altar until the end of August. We thank the farmers of our parish for this year's crops; the weather in June was not kind, and yet the harvest was brought in on time.
The tradition of this day also contains something practical: housewives keep the blessed herbs for the whole year, and the grain from the wreath is mixed with the seed grain. It is good for children to see this — such things cannot be explained, you have to be there.
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