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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Assumption of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:FROM ESTEEM TO ESTEEM \nFrom a homily by Amadeus of Lausanne \n◊◊◊ \nWho would not hasten\, who would not run from the ends of the earth to \ngaze upon the beauty of the venerable majesty [of the Mother of God] and to \nbehold the countenance endowed with all manner of sweetness and with \ncommanding dignity and unique power? Indeed\, nothing was found like to her \namong the sons and daughters of Adam\, none such among the prophets\, \napostles or angels. Heaven and earth have put forth nothing like her. Who in the \nclouds would equal her\, or be like the Mother of the Lord among the sons of \nGod? \nAnd see how fittingly before her Assumption her wonderful name blazed \nforth in the whole world and her renown was everywhere spread abroad before \nher grandeur was raised above the heavens. For it was fitting that the Virgin \nMother\, for the honor of her Son\, should reign first upon earth and then\, at last\, \nreceive the heavens with glory; should tarry in the depths that she might enter \nthe heights in the fullness of sanctity; and just as she was carried from virtue to \nvirtue\, so by the Spirit of the Lord [should she] be borne from esteem to esteem. \nWhile present in the flesh she tasted in advance the first-fruits of the \nfuture kingdom; now [she is] going forth to God in unspeakable sublimity\, now \nin wondrous charity condescending to her neighbors. On the one side she was \nattended by the services of angels\, on the other venerated by the devotion of \nman. Gabriel\, the groomsman\, with the angels was at her side; John\, with the \napostles\, ministered to her\, rejoicing that at the cross the Virgin Mother was \nentrusted to him. [The angels] rejoiced to see their queen; [the apostles \nrejoiced] to see their lady\, and all obeyed her with pious devotion. \nBut she\, dwelling in the lofty citadel of the virtues and enriched by an \nocean of divine gifts\, poured out in generous diffusion upon a believing and \nthirsting people an abyss of graces\, in which she surpassed all others. She \nbrought health to their bodies and cure to their souls\, being powerful to raise \nthem from the death of body and soul. Who ever went away from her sick or sad \nand not knowing heavenly mysteries? Who did not return to his home glad and \njoyful\, having obtained from the Mother of God his wish?
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