{"id":76798,"date":"2025-08-09T08:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=76798"},"modified":"2025-08-10T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:50:00","slug":"the-assumption-of-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-assumption-of-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes (Friday) The Assumption Of Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Vatican:<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was already being celebrated on August 15 in the fifth century.<\/p>\n

It bore the sense of Our Lady\u2019s \u201cBirth into Heaven,\u201d or in the Byzantine tradition, her \u201cDormition.”<\/p>\n

The feast began to be celebrated in Rome in the middle of the seventh century. It was not until November 1, 1950, that Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Dogma of Mary\u2019s assumption body and soul into Heaven.<\/p>\n

In the Apostles\u2019 Creed, we profess our faith in the \u201cResurrection of the body\u201d and in \u201clife everlasting.\u201d This is the ultimate goal and meaning of our life\u2019s journey. This promise of faith is already accomplished in Mary, who is the \u201csign of sure hope and comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a privilege granted to Mary and closely connected to her being the Mother of Jesus. Since death and the corruption of the human body are consequences of sin, it was not right that the Virgin Mary\u2014who is free from sin\u2014should be affected by this natural law. Hence the mystery of her \u201cDormition\u201d or \u201cAssumption into Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact that Mary has already been assumed into heaven is a reason to celebrate, to rejoice, to hope in the \u201calready and the not yet.\u201d One of God\u2019s creatures\u2014Mary\u2014is already in heaven. With her, and like her, we too, who are God\u2019s creatures, will one day be there too.<\/p>\n

Mary\u2019s destiny, united to the transfigured and glorious body of Jesus, is, therefore, the destiny of all those who are united to the Lord Jesus in faith and love. It is interesting to note that the liturgy\u2014through the biblical texts taken from the Book of Revelation and the Gospel according to Luke (the Canticle of the Magnificat)\u2014helps us, not so much to reflect, as to pray.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Gospel suggests that Mary\u2019s mystery be read in the light of her prayer, the Magnificat, that is, through the lens of gratuitous love that extends from generation to generation and the predilection of the least and the poor.<\/p>\n

Its choicest fruit, you could say its masterpiece, is Mary, a mirror in which the entire people of God can see its own features reflected. The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, body and soul, is an eloquent sign of how not only the \u201csoul\u201d but also the \u201cbody\u201d is included in the biblical observation that \u201cGod found it very good\u201d (Gn 1:31), so much so that in the Virgin Mary, \u201cour flesh\u201d would be assumed into heaven.<\/p>\n

This does not exempt us from committing ourselves to life here on earth, but rather that with our gaze fixed on the goal, on Heaven, our Homeland, we are driven to commit ourselves during our present life to reflect the Magnificat: to rejoice in God\u2019s mercy, to be attentive to all our brothers and sisters we meet along the way, beginning with the weakest and most vulnerable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Proclamation of the Dogma<\/i><\/div>\n
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\u201cFor which reason, after we have poured forth prayers of supplication again and again to God, and have invoked the light of the Spirit of Truth, for the glory of Almighty God who has lavished his special affection upon the Virgin Mary, for the honor of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages and the Victor over sin and death, for the increase of the glory of that same august Mother, and for the joy and exultation of the entire Church; by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory\u201d (Pius XII; Munificentissimus Deus, 1 November 1950).<\/i><\/p>\n

Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary\u2019s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, \u201cBlessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

And Mary said:<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cMy soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
\nmy spirit rejoices in God my Savior
\nfor he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
\nFrom this day all generations will call me blessed:
\nthe Almighty has done great things for me,
\nand holy is his Name.
\nHe has mercy on those who fear him
\nin every generation.
\nHe has shown the strength of his arm,
\nhe has scattered the proud in their conceit.
\nHe has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
\nand has lifted up the lowly.
\nHe has filled the hungry with good things,
\nand the rich he has sent away empty.
\nHe has come to the help of his servant Israel
\nfor he has remembered his promise of mercy,
\nthe promise he made to our fathers,
\nto Abraham and his children for ever.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Mary remained with her about three months and then returned to her home (Lk 1:39-56).<\/i><\/p>\n

Praising God<\/h2>\n

Today, the Virgin Mary, with her Magnificat, teaches us how to praise and glorify God. It is an invitation through which the Virgin Mary, today contemplated in glory, invites us to go beyond our usual mode of magnifying problems and difficulties. Mary is able, and today she teaches this to us, to look on life through another lens: our hearts are greater than our sins. And even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts! (cf. 1 Jn 3:20) This is not, therefore, illusory, as if to say there are no problems in life. It is about appreciating what is beautiful and good in life and knowing how to thank God for it! This way, even problems are seen in their proper light.<\/p>\n

God surprises<\/h2>\n

A second aspect that deserves to be highlighted today is the fact that Mary was a virgin, and Elizabeth was sterile. God is the One who goes \u201cbeyond\u201d, who surprises you through His provident, salvific action.<\/p>\n

The goal<\/h2>\n

Mary already experiences God\u2019s glory. She has reached the goal where we will one day all find ourselves. This is why Mary is today a sign of consolation and hope because if she, a creature like ourselves, is already there, we can also join her there. Let us fix our gaze and our hearts on her who never abandoned her Son Jesus and who today enjoys the joy and glory of Heaven. And let us entrust ourselves to her so that she might help us journey the paths of life knowing how to recognize the great things that God accomplishes in us and around us, to know how to magnify Him with the hymn of our existence.<\/p>\n

Prayer to Mary, Assumed into Heaven<\/h2>\n

O Immaculate Mary, Assumed into heaven,<\/i>
\nyou who are most blessed in the vision of God:
\nof God the Father who exalted you among all creatures,
\nof God the Son who willed that you bear Him as your Son and that you should be His Mother,
\nof God the Holy Spirit who accomplished the human conception of the Savior in you.
\nO Mary, most pure
\nO Mary, most sweet and beautiful
\nO Mary, strong and thoughtful woman
\nO Mary, poor and sorrowful
\nO Mary, virgin and mother
\nwoman very human like Eve, more than Eve.
\nYou are near to God by your grace and by your privileges
\nin your mysteries
\nin your mission, in your glory.
\nO Mary, assumed into the glory of Christ
\nin the complete and transfigured perfection of our human nature.
\nO Mary, gate of heaven
\nmirror of divine light
\nark of the Covenant between God and mankind,
\nlet our souls fly after you
\nlet them fly long your radiant path,
\ntransported by a hope that the world does not contain eternal beatitude.
\nComfort us from heaven, O merciful Mother,
\nand guide us along your ways of purity and hope
\ntill the day of that blessed meeting with you
\nand with your divine Son
\nour Savior, Jesus. Amen!<\/i>
\n(Saint Paul VI)<\/b><\/p>\n

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