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O loving tenderness of Jesus towards men! St. Augustine says that when the Saviour was injured by His enemies, He besought pardon for them; for He thought, not so much of the injuries He received from them, and the death they inflicted upon Him, as upon the love which brought Him to die for them.
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
The Assumption “In Mary we see one who realises true communion with God both in this life and in the next… What Mary receives we receive now and hope to realise at the end of our lives too…”
Blessed Mary lived, cared for by St. John, for twelve years after Our Lord’s Resurrection. Her life was spent in helping the Apostles and in praying for the conversion of the world. On the third day after Mary’s death, when the Apostles gathered around her tomb, they found it empty.
She is like the merchant’s ship, she bringeth her bread from afar (Prov. xxxi. 14). Mary was this fortunate ship that brought us Jesus Christ from Heaven, Who is the Living Bread that comes down from Heaven to give us eternal life, as He Himself says: I am the living bread, which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever (Jo. vi. 51, 52). And hence Richard of St. Laurence says that “in the sea of this world all will be lost who are not received into this ship; that is to say, all who are not protected by Mary”; and therefore he adds: “As often as we see ourselves in danger of perishing in the midst of the temptations and contending passions of this life, let us have recourse to Mary, and cry out quickly: O Lady, save us, we perish!
“As the splendour of the sun exceeds that of all the stars united,” says St. Basil of Seleucia, “so does Mary’s glory surpass that of all the Blessed in Heaven.” The greatest glory of the Blessed is, after the vision of God, the presence of Heaven’s most beautiful Queen.