Hail Mary, Full of Love
Feast of the Assumption 2025
In the Epistle for today’s feast, the applied sense of Scripture is used to connect Judith’s conquest over the prince of the Hebrew’s enemies in the Old Testament to the Blessed Virgin Mary’s victory over the Prince of Darkness. The passive word Assumption is used to express the direct action of the Trinity on Our Lady in bringing her, body and soul, into Heaven. One can only imagine the great joy in Heaven at the entrance of its Queen. In the Hail Mary we are meant to greet the Holy Virgin with fervor and love. Divine Charity, which we possess in Sanctifying Grace, far surpasses the greatest and most noble of human love. The intensity of this Divine Love in the Blessed Mother is unimaginable, and it transformed even her smallest works into actions warranting the greatest merit. What our Savior desires most from us is that we love Him in return.
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