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The life of every Christian is a journey...
August 14, 2023
St. Maximillian Kolbe
Dear Family of Mary!
This is the last day of our preparation for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary! It is also the feast day of St. Maximillian Kolbe who founded the Knights of the Immaculata, and was tireless is drawing people to Our Lady. He understood the great mystery of Mary, and strove to give that understanding to all he met. Let's ask St. Maximillian to pray for us in a special way, that we will also be given a deeper understanding of Our Lady as our Queen, Assumed into Heaven, where she waits for us!!
I have two paragraphs from Pope Benedict XVI and a message for us to pray over. May we truly open ourselves to the graces of the Annunciation tomorrow!! This feast is our future!
Pope Benedict XVI wrote:
First a warning about the devil, who is our sworn enemy, and who is defeated by Our Lady in every skirmish. She teaches us how to defeat him:
Today too, the dragon exists in new and different ways. It exists in the form of materialistic ideologies that tell us it is absurd to think of God; it is absurd to observe God’s commandments: they are a leftover from a time past… Even now, this dragon appears invincible, but it is still true today that God is stronger than the dragon, that it is love which conquers rather than selfishness…[Our Lady would tell us] "The message of my life was: I am the handmaid of God, my life has been a gift of myself to God and my neighbor. And this life of service now arrives in real life. May you too have trust and have the courage to live like this, countering all the threats of the dragon.”
And Second, Pope Benedict gives us some theology about the Assumption:
The Assumption reminds us that Mary’s life, like that of every Christian, is a journey of following, following Jesus, a journey that has a very precise destination, a future already marked out: the definitive victory over sin and death and full communion with God, because as Paul says in his Letter to the Ephesians the Father “raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2: 6). This means that with Baptism we have already fundamentally been raised and are seated in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, but we must physically attain what was previously begun and brought about in Baptism. In us, union with Christ's resurrection is incomplete, but for the Virgin Mary it is complete, despite the journey that Our Lady also had to make. She has entered into the fullness of union with God, with her Son, she draws us onwards and accompanies us on our journey.”
Our Lady made the long journey of this life, filled with love and faith in the Father. She never withdrew her yes! She now is asking each of us to live that same life of total consecration to God, so that we will be with her forever in Heaven. The Assumption assures us that it is possible! Our Mother is there, waiting for us.
She has told us:
May 25, 1987 "Dear children! I am calling every one of you to start living in God's love. Dear children, you are ready to commit sin, and to put yourselves in the hand of satan without reflecting. I call on each one of you to consciously decide for God and against satan. I am your Mother and, therefore, I want to lead you all to perfect holiness. I want each one of you to be happy here on earth and to be with me in Heaven. That is, dear children, the purpose of my coming here and it's my desire. Thank you for having responded to my call."
Let us pray:
Mother Mary, your Assumption into Heaven did not take you away from us, but rather opened the way for you to draw close to each one of us and mother us with your incredible love. You are here with us today. We want to draw very close to you, and to be guided by you in everything. Mother please make us presentable, and then present us to your Son, that we might live with Him and You in Heaven forever!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
www.marytv.tv
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