A day late but still important to make mention of one of the Church's great feast day - the Assumption of the Blessed Mother into Heaven. People would be hard put to deny that Mary was not deserving of this recognition. As our pastor said in his sermon, yesterday, we should not have envy of what was given to Mary but to use her example to one day, also, to be brought wholly into Heaven, too.
"The festival of this day is venerable to us, O Lord, to which the holy Mother of God succumbed to earthly death; but she could not be held by the bonds of death, who bore of her own flesh Thine incarnate Son our Lord."
Gregorian Sacramentary, Collect for the Feast. (17th century)
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