That which we celebrate today [the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary] is a great mystery, and above all a mystery of hope and of joy for all of us: In Mary we see the end toward which all those who know how to link their lives to that of Jesus are journeying, those who know how to follow him as Mary did. This feast, then, speaks of our future, it tells us that we also will be next to Jesus in the joy of God and it invites us to have courage, to believe that the power of the Resurrection of Christ can operate also in us and make us men and women who every day seek to live as risen ones, taking the light of goodness to the darkness of evil that is in the world.
~Pope Benedict XVI, Angelus Message for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 8/15/11
Dear Mary, teach us how to follow Jesus as you did and to live as His risen ones for the hope and joy of all. Amen.
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