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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Assumption of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:TODAY SHE HAS FOUND HIM \nFrom a sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx1 \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 \ndaughter\, but also a mother. So\, then it is only right that we welcome her feast \nwith greater delight and gladness. But today even more we should rejoice with \nher because today her joy was completely fulfilled. Great was her joy when the \nangel greeted her. Great was her joy when she felt the coming of the Holy Spirit\, \nwhen that marvelous fusion of the Son of God with her flesh took place in her \nwomb\, so that he\, one and the same\, was the Son of God and her Son. Great was \nher joy when she held such a Son in her arms\, when she listened to his words\, \nwhen she saw his miracles. And because her sorrow was so great at the Passion\, \nshe took wondrous joy again in his resurrection and greater still at his \nascension. But all these joys were surpassed by the joy which she receives today. \nUp to this day…Mary\, the blessed Mother of God\, knew her dearest Son \nin 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 \nnot fade from her memory. For his deeds and words were always coming to her \nmind and above all there lingered in her heart the features of his exquisite face. \nToday\, however\, she passed from this world and went up to the heavenly \nkingdom. There she began to contemplate his brightness\, power\, and divinity\, \nand her joy and her longing were fulfilled. So with good reason could she say: “I \nhave found him whom my soul loves”. She holds him and she does not let him \ngo… Today she has found him whom her soul loves\, she has found him in spirit\,11 \nshe loves him in spirit\, she holds him in spirit and therefore she will never again \nlose him… \nShe loved him more than anyone else did\, so she yearned for him more \nthan anyone else did\, and therefore sought him more persistently. But him \nwhom until now her flesh loved\, now her soul loves. And now she says: “I will \nrise and go the rounds of the city”. Today the Blessed Virgin went up into heaven \nand went round the whole of that heavenly city in the full natural vigor of her \nmind. Today she entered that heavenly court. She saw the white robes of the \nvirgins\, the ruddy crowns of the martyrs\, the thrones of the apostles\, and in the \nmidst of them she found her Son reigning. Ascending higher than the very \nhighest of the saints\, she has arrived at such knowledge of the divinity that she \nthen glories in having found him for the first time… She holds him in the \nembraces of an utterly perfect love and she can never lose him because she can \nnever love him any less. \nLet us lift up our hearts therefore\, brothers\, to Our Lady\, our Advocate. \nLet us reflect on how much hope we have in her. Just as she surpasses every \ncreature in excellence\, so also she is more merciful and kinder than any \ncreature. Let us then confidently entreat her who can by her excellence assist us \nand by her mercy chooses to do so\, that she may implore her Son for us so that \nas he deigned to be born of her for us\, he may through her deign to have mercy \non us.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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