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HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (3)

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August 15, 2022
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HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

THEME: The Ark is taken up!

BY: Rev Fr Oselumhense Anetor (Uromi Diocese).

HOMILY FOR MONDAY AUGUST 15 2022

 

Rev.11:19,12:1-6,10; Ps.45:10, 11,12,16; 1 Cor.15:20-26; Luke 1.39-56

What do we celebrate today? On November 1, 1950, in the Apostolic Constitution ‘Munificentissimus Deus”, Pope Pius XII declared the Assumption of Mary a dogma. He writes, “By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory” (MD, 44). This divinely revealed truth is binding on us Catholics.

Friends, today’s Solemnity is not about arguments. It’s a divinely revealed truth that Mary was indeed “taken up” body and soul into heavenly glory. In the New Testament, she is the Ark; the one who bore the Word in the flesh. We get this picture clearly from today’s first reading. She is also the Queen in garments of gold (Ps 45). Mary did not “ascend” (as Jesus did by his own power). She was assumed (taken up) by God’s power, who destroyed death through the death of his own Son. What we do is a fulfilment of Mary’s own prophecy, that all generations will call her Blessed. It is only FITTING that the most Blessed of all women, she who was first honoured by God himself, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory. He who has ears, let him/her listen to what the Spirit has revealed to the Church.

Happy Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

God bless your week ahead. Try to go to Mass today.

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