Yesterday after the 11 AM Mass on the Feast of Mary’s Assumption into Heaven we had a procession to our Mary Garden, carrying herbs to be blessed and flowers in thanksgiving. This is a day for blessing herbs and recognizing the healing they bring as medicines. We added our own prescription medicines for God’s blessing. 

We also blessed our earth yesterday, praying for a good harvest. In our Mary Garden, with its four paths representing the four great rivers God made to flow out to the four corners of the earth from the original Garden of Eden, we prayed especially for those parts of the earth where harvests are endangered: the Ukraine, China, the Sudan and wherever else floods, extreme heat and wars put our fruitful earth in danger. 

I mentioned in a previous blog why we bless our fields and especially its herbs on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.

Today more than ever, we need to pray for good weather and a good harvest.