30th Day — Mary’s Assumption into Heaven.

Mary’s Assumption into Heaven.

Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, neither shalt
Thou suffer Thy holy one to see corruption. (Psalm xv.  10.)

1.  On the third day after Mary’s death, when the apostles gathered around her tomb, they found it empty.  The sacred body had been carried up to the celestial Paradise.  Jesus Himself came to conduct her thither; the whole court of heaven came to welcome with songs of triumph the Mother of the Divine Word.  What a chorus of exultation!  Hark how they cry, “Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates, and the Queen of Glory shall enter in.”

2.  Why was Mary’s body received into heaven instead of remaining in the earth, like the rest of mankind?  The grave had no power over one who was immaculate.  Her flesh could not see corruption.  Her body had been overshadowed by the Holy Ghost; it had been the sacred temple in which had dwelt God Incarnate, and so it had a claim to ascend whither the Body of her Son had already gone before.

3.  But the chief reason was that as she had shared in each detail in the sorrows and agony of her Son, so it was right that she should take part in His triumph.  To her it was due that she should without delay enter into the joy of her Lord, her Son, her God.  Oh, happy Mary!  what.  were all her dolors compared with the joy of that first moment of heaven!  How light are all our sorrows compared with the eternal weight of glory prepared for us!

See the Virgin Mother rise, 

Angels bear her to the skies!

 


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