IN THE ASUNSION OF THE VIRGIN MARY, My humble and brief contribution to this great solemnity.

 

And he (Elias) said to his servant:  "Go up and look towards the sea."  He went up, looked and said:  "There is nothing."  Elijah said,  "Do it seven times."  And at the seventh time he said:  "Behold a cloud, as small as the palm of a man's hand, rising from the sea."  Then Elijah said to Ahab:  " Go up, eat and drink, because I hear a great noise of rain."

This little cloud is a figure of Our Lady because that seventh time is like the seventh age of Our Lady, Santo Tomás de Villanueva translates:  "Behold, a little cloud rises from the sea like the footprint of a man" Of these two translations the most important is  "that little cloud" speaking of the humility of the Blessed. Virgin, because elsewhere it is said that it was a great cloud that contained God in his lap; and this cloud was capable of being the sky itself. This cloud, I repeat, is a light cloud, a cloud without sin, formed by the vapor of water, that is, of passible flesh; but it was raised by the ardor of the sun, that is, with the love of God who dwelled in the heights by contemplation. The Sacred Letters continue to say:  "like the footprint of a man."   In Christ Jesus the head is the divinity according to the apostle:  “God is the head of Christ” ; and in the Songs:  "His head, fine gold."  And his foot is the humanity that takes it from the Blessed. Virgin therefore the Virgin is the imprint of this foot; because, just as the footprint resembles the foot, so the Virgin in her entire life is a true image and figure of the humanity of Christ.

    This Virgin rose from the sea and this is nothing other than the glory of the Blessed. Virgin Mary, But did the Virgin achieve this triumph without effort? Certainly not: because here is how he rises from the sea of ​​tribulations, from the sea of ​​persecutions so well known to us, he knew the waves of the world, its shakes and its storms.

    Finally Ahab is told:  “Go, eat and drink; because I hear the noise of a great rain coming.” The Virgin rises, the Virgin is raised to the heights. Your Ahab or us, she walks, eats and drinks until you are satisfied; rejoice, rejoice because your land, that is to say our souls, will no longer be sterile; a cloud rises from the sea, a shower of graces will come; an extraordinary torrent of gifts will descend from the cloud, flooding the entire Church, fertilizing all souls.      

For her, as Saint Bernard says, God decided to give the world what he had to give. And the psalm says:  "Myrrh, aloes and cassia your dresses, tiers of ivory." The ladders and tiers where the Virgin climbed are therefore made of ivory, let's see what ivory they are made of: the first tier is the eternal predestination of God to be her mother; the second, she is to be represented by the patriarchs; the third, to be announced by the prophets; the fourth, greeted by the angel; the fifth, conceiving by the work of the Holy Spirit and becoming the mother of her creator; the sixth, her exaltation on this day to heaven above all creatures by also being crowned Queen of all creation and the seventh is contained in those words of His Holiness Pius XII taken from the acts of the Popes: ¨PRONUNCIAMUS, DECLARAMUS ET DEFINIMUS DIVINITUS REVELATUM DOGMA ESSE:

INMACULATAM DEIPARAM SEMPER VIRGINEM MARIAM EXPLETO TERRESTRIS VITAE CURSU, FUISE CORPORE ET ANIMA AD CELETEM GLORIAM ASSUMTA¨(The immaculate ever-virgin Mary finished the course of her terrestrial life and was assumed, body and soul, into heavenly glory)

In this way she rises, following the example of Elijah, like a soft wind without violence or noise to heaven carried not by the chariot of fire like Elijah but by the entourage of the blessed angels destined for this noble mission. While Elisha shouted, dismayed and sad: "My father, charioteer of Israel and his horses", we represented by the apostles shouted My mother, ark of the true covenant and living tabernacle of the most high, have mercy on us miserable mortals and intercede for us now that you will be at the right hand of your beloved Son. As teachers, we also approached Her like the sorrowful Saint Peter, who saw in this other opportunity, to tell her with heartfelt pain: "Mother, tell your Son to forgive me" and the Mother, convinced of what he was responding, told her: "Peter, my Son I already forgive you”, but the stubborn Saint Peter insisted: "I know, Mother, but if you ask him, he will take this pain away from me." From where we learn that St. Peter never felt bothered our Mother who, with great meekness that befits a pleading omnipotence, with utmost condescension, bowed by the insistence of the apostle, agreed to St. Peter's request. This will also happen to us if we follow the example of the Apostle without a doubt that she will intercede for us before her beloved Son for any need before her Son who can do everything and wants to do it in those whom He loves with a special love because they have known how to preserve their mandates, faith and doctrine so attacked in our times. We could already hear her words using those of her daughter Saint Teresa of Jesus: My son “Nothing disturbs you, nothing scares you. Everything changes My Son does not change”, have firm trust in Him and you will not suffer disappointment and all your needs will be attended to, according to His divine will, better than you expected. Then the words that were fully fulfilled in Blessed Saint Peter will be fulfilled in us. My most fervent wish as the most unworthy minister of the Lord, the most unworthy devotee of this Mother of BEAUTIFUL LOVE, is that our dearest prayers be fulfilled, by means of which is taken up to heaven, not only for our needs as pressing as those of the whole world and above all for the conversion of Russia through the consecration to her Immaculate Heart through our individual and collective petition of all Catholics faithful to her divine Son. according to his divine will, all your needs better than you expected. Then the words that were fully fulfilled in Blessed Saint Peter will be fulfilled in us. My most fervent wish as the most unworthy minister of the Lord, the most unworthy devotee of this Mother of BEAUTIFUL LOVE, is that our dearest prayers be fulfilled, by means of which is taken up to heaven, not only for our needs as pressing as those of the whole world and above all for the conversion of Russia through the consecration to her Immaculate Heart through our individual and collective petition of all Catholics faithful to her divine Son. according to his divine will, all your needs better than you expected. Then the words that were fully fulfilled in Blessed Saint Peter will be fulfilled in us. My most fervent wish as the most unworthy minister of the Lord, the most unworthy devotee of this Mother of BEAUTIFUL LOVE, is that our dearest prayers be fulfilled, by means of which is taken up to heaven, not only for our needs as pressing as those of the whole world and above all for the conversion of Russia through the consecration to her Immaculate Heart through our individual and collective petition of all Catholics faithful to her divine Son.