Happy Friday, friends! ✨

Last week we made flower crowns to honor Mary being taken up to heaven — and this week, the Church shows us exactly why that crown fits her: because on August 22, we celebrate Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth. It's a beautiful, gentle "closing" to the feast we celebrated together just one week ago.

But here's the lovely twist: Mary's queenship doesn't look like thrones or power. It looks like a mother who serves. That's a kind of "royalty" every family already understands.