The Feast of the Assumption

The Feast of the Assumption
August 15, 2011

Even in moments of darkness and suffering, Mary continued to follow God’s plan of love, placing her life totally in his hands.

For Mary and for every Christian, all of life is an ascent, all of life is meditation, obedience, trust and hope, even amid the darkness.

Life involves struggles between good and evil and is like a voyage on often stormy seas; Mary is the star that guides us toward her son Jesus, the sun that rises over the darkness of history.

Mary’s life and her assumption gives us the hope we need: the hope that we can win, that God has won and that, through baptism, we have entered into this victory.
God also needs every man and woman to welcome him so that Christ can live in the world.

And if we say ‘yes’ like Mary, or rather to the extent that we give our ‘yes,’ that which happened in that marvelous exchange also will happen with us: We will be assumed into the divinity of the One who assumed our humanity.

(excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI’s August 15, 2009 homily — Catholic News Service)

Prayer used in meditation video:

Father in heaven,
all creation rightly gives you praise
for all life and all holiness come from you.
In the plan of Your wisdom
she who bore the Christ in her womb
was raised body and soul in glory
to be with Him in heaven.
May we follow her example
in reflecting your holiness
and join in her hymn of endless life and praise.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.

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