Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
August 15, 2024
Today’s Readings:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081524-Day.cfm
Christ has been raised from the dead,
Corinthians 15:20
the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
We celebrate Mary because of who she is in Christ, the firstfruits of a new and redeemed Creation. Mary is the one who bore these sacred firstfruits. Mothering Christ, she mothers too the gift of our Redemption.
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:
We honor Mary whose simple life was translucent with faith. From that light, God took flesh and so redeemed us.
Poetry: The Assumption – Joachim Smet O.Carm
No painter ever caught the magic other going--
This was a matter of an inward growing,
Simple and imperceptible as thought.
It was no pageant wrought
Of sounding splendor, welter of gold bars
Of molten day, mad stars,
Flurry of quick angels' winging,
Bursts of their laughter ringing
In wild bliss.
The simple fact is this:
Love conquered at long last.
Her eager soul fled fast
With a great gladness like a song
Unto to her Spouse above,
And her pure flesh would not be parted long
For sheer love.
Music: Assumpta Est Maria
Latin Text
Assumpta est Maria in caelum,
gaudent angeli, laudantes benedicunt Dominum.
Gaudete et exsultate omnes recti corde.
Quia hodie Maria virgo cum Christo regnat in aeternum.
Quae est ista, quae progreditur
quasi aurora consurgens,
pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol,
terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata?
Gaudete et exsultate omnes recti corde.
Quia hodie Maria virgo cum Christo regnat in aeternum.
ENGLSIH TEXT
Mary has been received into Heaven:
the angels rejoice with praises and bless the Lord.
Let all rejoice and be glad with righteous heart,
for today the Virgin Mary reigns with Christ for evermore.
Who is she that cometh forth
as the morning rising,
fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
terrible as an army set in array ?
Let all rejoice and be glad with righteous heart,
for today the Virgin Mary reigns with Christ for evermore.
Lavish Mercy 
Happy Feast of the Assumption. Beautiful Reflection. How this must have been for Mary carrying God as a Precious Baby. The love between Mary and Jesus .. Then the Visitation is wonderful to imagine. Thanks S. Renee
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