St. Bernard 28 puts into our mouths the following address to her: “O blessed finder of grace, mother of life, mother of salvation, may we through you have access to your Son, and that he who was given us through you, may receive us through you. Thank you Tom I already did and hope to continue to do so as I receive future updates of posts from your good blog. That St. John the Evangelist retired to Ephesus in his old age is manifest from incontestable monuments of history. Learn how your comment data is processed. The Assumption Of Our Lady Into Heaven - Saint Louis Marie de Montfort "The world being unworthy to receive the son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his son to Mary for the world to receive him from her." These quotes are from the homilies of Pope Benedict XVI between 2005 and 2012. It is the consummation of all the other great mysteries, by which her life was rendered most wonderful; it is the birthday of her true greatness and glory, and the crowning of all the virtues of her whole life, which we admire singly in her other festivals. This website is dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe. With good reason thanksgiving and the voice of praise resound today throughout the courts of Heaven…let us not complain for here we do not have a lasting city, but we seek one that is to come, the same which the blessed Mary entered today.”  – St. Bernard of Clairvaux (West), “As the most glorious Mother of Christ, our Savior and our God and the giver of life and immortality, has been endowed with life by him, she has received an eternal incorruptibility of the body together with him who has raised her up from the tomb and has taken her up to himself in a way known only to him.”  – St. Modestus of Jerusalem (East), “Today the liturgy invites us to contemplate Mary, taken up body and soul into heaven. St. Sophronius and John Moschus in the Spiritual Meadow, 22 mention a certain merchant of Alexandria, who setting out on a voyage to Constantinople, recommended his wife and little daughter to “our Lady the holy Mother of God;” and by her patronage they were both miraculously preserved during his absence from being robbed and murdered. t. 3, p. 543. Ain’t going anywhere. de D. N. J. Christi Matrisque ejus Festis, par. Is it wrong to leave Mass after Communion? Happy Black Friday Messages Note 1. 78, c. 11 and 23, pp. Only patience, meekness, submission to the will of God, entire confidence in him, and the assiduous exercise of prayer and divine love were her support, her comfort, and the rich harvest which she reaped from her sufferings. t. 6, p. in Sergio, n. 26; Martenne de Ant. ad 15 Aug. Romæ, 1766. 24 St. Proclus, on this day of her festival in 428, delivered his famous sermon against Nestorius, in … 2, c. 112, p. 100. Mart. 16 The Protestant century-writers of Magdeburg trace it for us as high as the second century, and charge St. Irenæus with teaching it in the same manner that the Catholic church does at this day. We are encouraged to be fervent in this great means of mercy by the experience of her powerful intercession, confirmed by illustrious examples. But she is fair as the moon, as easily to be discerned from the other saints as the sun is from the stars.” She receives a crown not like those of other saints, but of twelve stars. The constant doctrine and tradition of the church, through all ages, renders us secure in the practice of invoking this holy Virgin. Warm wishes on Feast of Assumption.”, “May the special occasion of Feast of Assumption bring along many more smiles and celebrations for you to enjoy.”, “Offer yourself in the service of Mother Mary to make every Feast of Assumption a very special one.”, “May the blessings of Mother Mary are always there in your life to make it a more beautiful one…. Note 14. It was fitting that she, who had carried the Creator as a child at her breast, should dwell in the divine tabernacles…it was fitting that God’s Mother should possess what belongs to her Son, and that she should be honored by every creature as the Mother and the Handmaid of God.”  – St. John Damascene (East), “When finally the Blessed Virgin had fulfilled the course of this life, and was now to be called out of this world, all the apostles were gathered together from each region to her house…and behold the Lord Jesus came with his angels and, receiving her soul…at the break of day the apostles lifted the body with the couch and laid it in the sepulcher, and they guarded it awaiting the coming of the Lord.

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