August 15, 2022
Assumption Day 2022, The illustrious Assumption Day was organized on 15 August 2022. The celebrative occasion started with the Holy Mass dedicated to Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother, on the Auspicious Occasion of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, The Queen Mother’s 90th Birthday, 12th August, 2022. The Holy Mass was conducted at the Chapel of St. Louis Marie de Montfort, which was performed by Rev. Bro. Dr. Amnuay Yoonprayong, Vice President for Moral Development Education. The mass was followed by the Crowning Ceremony (Crowning of the Virgin Mary) to honor “The Seat of Wisdom” in front of the Cathedral of Learning. The ceremony was led by Rev. Bro. Dr. Bancha Saenghiran, President of the Assumption University of Thailand, accompanied by AU administrators, faculty members, staff, students, and the university’s honored guests, H.E. Jose Borges dos Santos Junior, Ambassador, Embassy of Brazil in Thailand.
In keeping with the Congregation’s devotion to Mary on August 15, Assumption Day is observed in a solemn and grand way at the University’s Suvarnabhumi campus. The celebrations begin with the Holy Mass, commemorating one of the Catholic core beliefs, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, body and soul.
For Assumption University of Thailand according to Rev. Francis Anastasia (Fr. Nash), Former Director of the ABAC-Loyola Exchange program at Assumption University, (1992-2007) “as Mary’s university, our education is best marked by caring, sharing and enlivening the young minds that come to us for intellectual nourishment.”
As culmination of the spiritual aspect of the celebration, the President of Assumption University Crowns the statue of the Virgin Mary, “Sed es Sapientiae” (a tradition initiated by Rev. Brother Prathip Martin Komolmas the then President of Assumption University) to the backdrop of the stately Cathedral of Learning, the Placid skies above, the Assumption School (Samutprakarn) brass band’s rendition of hymnal music and the Assumption University choir leading the assembly with votive hymns to Mary.
