14/08/2022

Today celebrates the Assumption of Mary Mother of God, the God Carrier,Theotokos. No matter how many titles I pile on the Ever Virgin I can never come closer to undestanding the unassessabe significance of her still-continuing  life. Faith tells me that her place in creation is second to none for it is from the Incarnation that took place by natural process in her womb that salvation was brought back into the world  where it had been expelled from, by the sin of our first parents.

The ecstatic vision of the Book of the Apocalypse is the Glory of God as revealed to the writer, a Jew in the tradition of of all the prophets who must know as he writes of his experience that the words he uses do not come close to the  mystical touch of the eternity of our God, Father Son and Holy Spirit. Mary's own experience of the immensity of the closeness of God is the Magnificat. Nothing known  by man approaches the beauty of this recognition of the Glory of our Creator Eternal Being felt by this human being who is touched . Mary has been chosen from all eternity to be the Mother and the humility of our God is already growing within her. 

Yes indeed is she blessed among women and blessed are we by the fruit of her womb.

Dear Lord may my deeds approach the meaning of words both read and written. Let me be cleansed of sin and ready for whatever your will has prepared for me. Mary whose glorious being is present in her glorified body with Jesus Son and all saints continue in prayer for us who are still trapped in time but longing to do the will of God and so come to be in the presence of our creator in the eternal now.