Mary, Cause of Our Joy

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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As the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary on August 15, Fr. Eric Nicolai reflects on the role of Mary as the new Eve and how we can obtain the joy of salvation through her intercession. Fr. Eric encourages us to enter into this feast day in a unique way, allowing ourselves the opportunity to be led into a deeper joy guided by the promptings of the Holy Spirit. We are challenged to see ourselves through the prism of God’s love, to abandon the old ways of sin, and to set...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
0:05.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here,
0:10.0	that you see me, that you hear me.
0:14.0	I adore you with profound reverence. I ask your pardon for my sins
0:20.0	and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:24.6	My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.
0:33.6	On August 15, 1961, St. Hosimira preached a meditation on the feast of the Assumption.
0:45.0	I believe it was preached in London while he was on a trip there.
0:50.5	And he began his meditation by underlining the very fact that this feast fills one with tremendous joy.
0:59.7	And he showed that simply by quoting from the passage from the office of the day of the bravery that said,
1:08.6	Mary has been taken up to heaven by God,
1:12.4	in body and soul,
1:14.5	and the angels rejoice.
1:17.9	That was the brevity at the time,
1:20.3	and still there.
1:22.5	Gaudent Anjali was the quote,
1:24.8	the reference in Latin.
1:29.3	Gaudent Anjali, the angels rejoice. And well we hear this, the angels rejoicing now.
1:33.3	Well, all we can do when we hear this angels rejoice
1:38.3	is try to picture what it looks like to see angels rejoicing
1:43.3	at Mary being taken up to heaven, to be received by your son, to be received by God in body and in soul.
1:55.1	We can picture it because, I mean, how else can you, how else can we integrate this in our life of piety?
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