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for your daily notifications. Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the fourth

glorious mystery, the assumption of Mary with help from a writing by St. Bernard of Clairvaux and his work on the solemnity of the

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sermon number one. Now our reading. The glorious Virgin who mounts to the

heavens today has without a doubt heaped joy upon joy for the citizens of the

world above. For it is she whose voice of greeting makes those whom the maternal womb still encloses

leap with joy. And if the soul of an unborn child melted when Mary spoke, how great do you think

was the joy of the citizens of heaven when they succeeded in hearing

her voice, seeing her face, and enjoying her blessed presence. But what dearly beloved does this

solemnity of her assumption hold for us? What is there for us to be happy about? What is the reason

for our displays of joy? The whole world has been made bright by the

presence of Mary so that the heavenly country itself shines more brightly by the radiant light

of the virginal torch. Thanksgiving and the voice of praise rightly resound in the heavens.

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