15th AUGUST: SOLEMNITY OF THE ENTRY INTO HEAVEN OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY WITH BOTH BODY AND SOUL. Assumpta est Maria in coelum: gaudent angeli! —God has taken Mary —body and soul— to Heaven: and the Angels rejoice! So sings the Church. —And so, with that same outburst of joy, do we begin our contemplation. The Mother of God has fallen asleep. —Around her bed are the twelve Apostles. —Matthias in the place of Judas. And we, through a grace respected by all, are also at her side. But Jesus wants to have His Mother, body and soul, in Heaven. —And the heavenly Court, arrayed in all its splendour, hails Our Lady. —You and I —children after all— take the train of Marys magnificent blue cloak, and so we can watch the marvellous scene. The most Blessed Trinity receives and showers honours on the Daughter, Mother, and Spouse of God... —And so great is Our Ladys majesty that the Angels exclaim: Who is she? Thou art all fair and in thee there is no stain. —Thou art a garden enclosed, my sister, Spouse, an enclosed garden, a sealed fountain. —Veni: coronaberis. —Come: thou shalt be crowned (Cant 4:7, 12 and 8). If you and I had had the power, we too would have made her Queen of Heaven and Lady of all creation. A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman with a crown of twelve stars upon her head. —Clothed with the sun. —The moon at her feet (Revelation 12:1). Mary, Virgin without stain, has repaired the fall of Eve: and she crushed the head of the infernal serpent with her immaculate heel. Daughter of God the Father, Mother of God the Son, Spouse of God the Holy Spirit. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit crown her as the rightful Empress of the Universe. She is now reunited in Heaven with her Son Jesus and with her delighted husband Joseph. And the Angels render homage unto her as her subjects, and so do all the patriarchs and the prophets and the Apostles and the martyrs and the confessors and the virgins and all the saints and all sinners, and you and I. From The Holy Rosary by Saint Josemaria Escriva (1902-75). N.B. To read a beautiful sermon by the same saint for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Vlessed Virgin Mary, one can do so by going to escrivaworks.org/book/christ_is_passing_by-chapter-17.htm
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