The Assumption of Mary into Heaven Body and Soul

“Mary was taken up to heaven; a chorus of angels exults” is the Gospel acclamation of today’s feast, the Assumption of Mary into heaven.  “A chorus of angels exults!” Imagine Mary being taken up into heaven, body and soul, not just her soul, as will happen for us on the day we die. Our bodies will await the resurrection from the dead at the end of time when Jesus “hands over the Kingdom to his God and Father, when he has destroyed every sovereignty and every authority and power [ on earth]. For he [Jesus] must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet” (1 Cor 15: 20-27).

O what a glorious day—Mary, Jesus’ Mother, who gave the Son of God His human nature, is taken up into heaven body and soul. What a celebration that must have been for Jesus, for God the Father and the Holy Spirit, and all of the angels and saints in heaven!   Mary, who was conceived without sin, joins the Trinity in heaven!  You and I will one day join Jesus and Mary in heaven, as well,  because Jesus gave His life on the cross to free us from sin, from all that would separate us from God!  Because of Jesus’ dying on the  cross, wiping out the effects of sin on those who repent  and then  rising from the dead, overcoming and destroying the power of death, you and I, like Mary, will one day enter eternal life. Yes, the angels will exult over us as well.

Let us celebrate our faith!

HAPPY EASTER: A BLESSED RESURRECTION IN THE RISEN LORD

Host of Heaven exult in celebration of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.

Angels minister to the Resurrected Christ, loudly proclaiming His triumph over death.

Peoples everywhere throughout the world  rejoice and are glad: Jesus has broken the bo bonds of death.
Peoples everywhere raise mighty voices, singing Alleluia the darkness of sin has been banished!
Yesterday and today, Christ the Beginning the  End, the Alpha and the Omega. All time belongs to him and all the ages To him be glory and power through every age and forever.Amen.

 

Every age is protected and guarded by the glorious wounds of the Lord, washed clean in His blood poured out on the cross.

All time belongs to Christ, our Risen Savior, who shines over all, glorifies all in His  destruction of sin upon the cross.
Standing in the awesome glory of the holy light that dispels the darkness, we sing alleluia the King of kings, Christ the Lord.
Though unworthy, we are, through the mercy of God, redeemed and reconciled with the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit.
Even now, throughout the world, Christian believers are set apart from worldly vices and from the gloom of sin by the power of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.  That resurrected power transforms our sin into grace, our darkness into light.
Rise up with Christ, the Morning Star that never sets. May the light of your baptism and mine never be undimmed  as we walk through this Valley of tears hand in hand with the Lord.

Source: The opening liturgy of the Easter Vigil.