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SUMMARY:Assumption of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:SHE FOUND HIM WHOM HER SOUL LOVES\nFrom a sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx 3\n◊◊◊\nAmong all those who are Christ’s\, she who tastes his goodness more\nintimately and more delicately is of greater excellence\, more blessed\, and more\nattractive. She is to him not only a creature\, a handmaid\, a friend\, and a daughter\,\nbut also a mother. So then it is only right that we welcome her feast with greater\ndelight and gladness. But today even more we should rejoice with her because\ntoday her joy was completely fulfilled. Great was her joy when the angel greeted\nher. Great was her joy when she felt the coming of the Holy Spirit\, when that\nmarvelous fusion of the Son of God with her flesh took place in her womb\, so that\nhe\, one and the same\, was the Son of God and her Son. Great was her joy when she\nheld such a Son in her arms\, when she listened to his words\, when she saw his\nmiracles. And because her sorrow was so great at the Passion\, she took wondrous\njoy again in his resurrection and greater still at his ascension. But all these joys\nwere surpassed by the joy which she receives today. \nUp to this day\, brothers\, Mary\, the blessed Mother of God\, knew her dearest\nSon in the flesh. Although she fastened all her desires and all her love there\, where\nhe was\, after her dearest Son and Lord ascended into heaven\, so long as she\nremained in this corruptible flesh\, what she had seen of him in the flesh could not\nfade from her memory. For his deeds and words were always coming to her mind\nand above all there lingered in her heart the features of his exquisite face. Today\,\nhowever\, she passed from this world and went up to the heavenly kingdom. There\nshe began to contemplate his brightness\, power\, and divinity\, and her joy and her\nlonging were fulfilled. So with good reason could she say: “I have found him whom\nmy soul loves”. She holds him and she does not let him go… \nToday the Blessed Virgin… entered that heavenly court. She saw the white\nrobes of the virgins\, the ruddy crowns of the martyrs\, the thrones of the apostles\,\nand in the midst of them she found her Son reigning. Ascending higher than the\nvery highest of the saints\, she has arrived at such knowledge of the divinity that\nshe then glories in having found him for the first time. \nO blessed soul\, who left behind not only the patriarchs and prophets\, the\napostles\, martyrs\, confessors\, and virgins\, but also the angels… and all heaven’s\narray\, and so reached her dearest Son. Then she utterly found him whom now her\nsoul loves utterly. She found him and she held him. She holds him in the embraces\nof an utterly perfect love and she can never lose him because she can never love\nhim any less. \nLet us lift up our hearts therefore\, brothers\, to Our Lady\, our Advocate. Let\nus reflect on how much hope we have in her. Just as she surpasses every creature\nin excellence\, so also she is more merciful and kinder than any creature. Let us\nthen confidently entreat her who can by her excellence assist us and by her mercy\nchooses to do so\, that she may implore her Son for us so that as he deigned to be\nborn of her for us\, he may through her deign to have mercy on us. \n3 Aelred of Rievaulx. The Liturgical Sermons – CF #58 – Cistercian Publications\,Kalamazoo – 2001.
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