Today the Virgin, Mother of God, has been taken to Heaven; she is the figure and first fruit of the Church that will one day be glorified; she is the comfort and hope of your people, still pilgrims on earth.
Let us look at Our Lady, Assumed already in Heaven. "And just as the traveler, making a screen with his hand to contemplate some vast panorama, looks around for some human figure that will give him an idea of those places, so we, who look at God with dazzled eyes, identify and welcome a purely human figure, who is next to his throne. A ship has finished its journey, a destiny has been fulfilled, a human perfection has existed. And when we look at her, we see God more clearly, more greatly, through that masterpiece of his relations with humanity.
All of Mary's privileges have to do with her Motherhood and, therefore, with our redemption. Mary, Assumed into Heaven, is the image and the foretaste of the Church that is still on the way to the Nation. From Heaven she "precedes the pilgrim people with her light as a sign of certain hope until the day of the Lord comes". "With the mystery of the Assumption into heaven, all the effects of the unique mediation of Christ, Redeemer of the world and Risen Lord, have been definitively realized in Mary. In the mystery of the Assumption, the faith of the Church is expressed, according to which Mary "is also intimately united" with Christ ". She is the assurance and the proof that her children will one day be with our glorified body alongside the glorious Christ. Our aspiration to eternal life takes on wings when we meditate that our heavenly Mother is up there, sees us and contemplates us with her gaze full of tenderness. With more love, the more she sees us in need. "She performs that function, proper to a mother, of mediator of clemency in the definitive coming ".
She is our great protector before the Most High. It is true that life on earth appears to us as a valley of tears, because there is no lack of sacrifices and hardships (above all, we lack Heaven). But, at the same time, the Lord gives us many joys and we have the hope of glory to walk with optimism. Among these reasons for joy, there is Holy Mary. She is life, sweetness and our hope: the Mother's affection is felt in the Christian's life. Return to us those your merciful eyes, we tell you. The eyes of Holy Mary, like those of her Son, are eyes of mercy and compassion. She never fails to lend a hand to those who come to her protection: You have never heard that any of those who have come to your protection Let us try to seek more the intercession of the Virgin, the Queen of Heaven and Earth. Let us go to the Refuge of sinners; and we will say to her: show us Jesus, which is what we need most.
What assurance, what joy, possesses the soul that in every circumstance turns to our Lady with the simplicity and trust of a son with his mother: "As a docile instrument in the hands of the exalted God writes a Father of the Church, so I would like to be subject to the Virgin Mother, entirely dedicated to her service. Grant this to me, Jesus, God and Son of Man, Lord of all things and Son of your Handmaid (...). Grant that I may serve your Mother so that you may recognize me as your servant; that she may be my sovereign on earth so that you may be my Lord for all eternity. But we must examine our daily dealings with her. "If you are proud to be a son of Mary, ask yourself: how many manifestations of devotion to Our Lady do I have during the day, from morning to night? ": the Angelus, the Holy Rosary, the three Hail Marys of the night