Hello, and happy Friday.
Today is one of the more major feasts in our Church. Today we remember the day that the Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed into heave, body and soul.
Other than the Lord Himself she is to only person we know who was taken into heaven body and soul. As the Church would proclaim, that God did not want the Mother of His Son to see corruption.
Pope Pius XII tells us the following regarding this feast. “The feast of the assumption of our Lady prompts us to acknowledge the basis for this joyful hope. Yes, we are still pilgrims, acknowledge the basis for this joyful hope. Yes, we are still pilgrims, but our mother has gone on ahead, where she points to the reward of our efforts. She tells us that we can make it. And, if we are faithful, we will reach home. The blessed Virgin is not only our model, she is the help of Christians. And as we besiege her with our petitions – ‘Show that you are our Mother’ – she cannot help but watch over her children with motherly care.”
Mary like her Son Jesus, are present to us to show us the way. Where they have gone, we are invited to follow. It hard for us to understand much more to believe. But this is the promise made to the disciples when Jesus said, “Let not your hearts be troubled, believe in God, in my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so , would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And when I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” (John 14:1-3)
We might say our life is difficult. That may be true. We all have difficulties that we must deal with every day of our lives. But we also have to believe that the day will come, in God’s good time, when we will be taken to the home of the Father where we will be with all those we have loved in this life and who have gone on before us. Here, that good virtue of patience once again comes into play. “Let not your hearts be trouble, believe in
God .. . .”
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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