Our Promised Resurrection is hard to grasp and difficult to cling onto. It is Foreign to our personal experience and far outside it.
Who can imagine a truth so vast as the Resurrection of the Dead ??
The Church comes to our aid by giving us a concrete example, a truth on which we can fix our minds.
This is the truth of the Bodily Assumption of the Blessed Mother.
To say that Mother Mary is glorified in Heaven is to assert the power of Christ's Resurrection and to affirm God's promise of our resurrection by giving us a concrete example of it in Mary.
Pope Pius the Twelfth defined the dogma of Mary's Assumption on November 1, 1950. The Pope saw Mother Mary as the First and Greatest of the Saints and not an isolated figure.
In the Assumption of Mary, we are given a picture of the Resurrection for which we hope.
There is something right and fitting in Our Lord Jesus Christ choosing His Own Mother to be the one in whom He would show us the truth of our Resurrection.
She was close to him on earth, as His Mother and shared by Faith and Love in his Mission and in the Mission Of His Apostles.
She was the first to believe and hope in him. She is the first to be fully glorified in Him.
In Mary, assumed to glory we can see the power of the spirit to bring to heavenly glory all those who faithfully hear God's word and respond to it as Mary herself did at the Annunciation and continued to do throughout her life.
Credits : From Dust To Glory
By Donal Flanagan
Page 19
Don Bosco's Madonna, Mumbai
August 2007
Vol - 9, N0-4
Who can imagine a truth so vast as the Resurrection of the Dead ??
The Church comes to our aid by giving us a concrete example, a truth on which we can fix our minds.
This is the truth of the Bodily Assumption of the Blessed Mother.
To say that Mother Mary is glorified in Heaven is to assert the power of Christ's Resurrection and to affirm God's promise of our resurrection by giving us a concrete example of it in Mary.
Pope Pius the Twelfth defined the dogma of Mary's Assumption on November 1, 1950. The Pope saw Mother Mary as the First and Greatest of the Saints and not an isolated figure.
In the Assumption of Mary, we are given a picture of the Resurrection for which we hope.
There is something right and fitting in Our Lord Jesus Christ choosing His Own Mother to be the one in whom He would show us the truth of our Resurrection.
She was close to him on earth, as His Mother and shared by Faith and Love in his Mission and in the Mission Of His Apostles.
She was the first to believe and hope in him. She is the first to be fully glorified in Him.
In Mary, assumed to glory we can see the power of the spirit to bring to heavenly glory all those who faithfully hear God's word and respond to it as Mary herself did at the Annunciation and continued to do throughout her life.
Credits : From Dust To Glory
By Donal Flanagan
Page 19
Don Bosco's Madonna, Mumbai
August 2007
Vol - 9, N0-4
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