From: trudie.Miller@cox.net   
      
   August 15th - The Assumption of Our Lady   
      
   By the late Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira: (died 1995)   
      
   One often hears meditations on the sorrows of Our Lady, but people from times   
   past, unlike contemporary men, also used to speak often about the joys of Our   
   Lady. For this reason, one of the most famous sanctuaries in Brazil is the   
   Church of Our Lady of the Pleasures, on Guararapes Mount, erected in honor of   
   her joys.   
      
   Today, the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, let us consider her pleasures.   
   There is a good reason to do this. St. Thomas Aquinas sustains that no one can   
   subsist on earth in complete unhappiness. To support the suffering of life, a   
   person needs to have some pleasure, even if small; otherwise a constant and   
   intense sorrow is insupportable. He was not speaking of pleasures as the world   
   imagines them, but about the good Catholic pleasures and joy.   
      
   Our Lady had many joys. The Magnificat is the expression of the supreme one,   
   the   
   Incarnation, but there are others, such as those celebrated in the joyful   
   mysteries of the Rosary. None was greater, in a certain sense, than that of the   
   Assumption. About these earthly and celestial pleasures, I will say a word.   
      
   You know about the coronation of the Queen of England - there are films,   
   features, and photo-albums illustrating it. The Queen leaves her palace wearing   
   a diadem and other splendid attire and enters a magnificent golden carriage.   
   The   
   carriage, preceded and followed by brilliant chivalric corteges, moves along   
   slowly and arrives at Westminster Abbey. The bells ring, the cannons roar. The   
   Queen processes up the central aisle of the Abbey and receives the homage of   
   the   
   nobility, the peers of the kingdom, and members of the Royal House. Then, the   
   ceremony of coronation takes place. When she receives the crown and is seated   
   on   
   her throne, her joy reaches its apex. Her joy spreads over the city, the   
   kingdom   
   and the whole world. She is the Queen par excellence and it is a universal   
   celebration of the monarchy.   
      
   The joy of the Queen gradually increases as the day progresses. She awakens   
   glad, and her joy swells until the moment of the coronation, when it reaches   
   the   
   pinnacle. Then her triumph is complete, and her joy is one that reflects the   
   dignity, honor and magnificent destiny of ruling a great people.   
      
   I am not considering that Queen Elizabeth II is an Anglican being crowned in a   
   religious ceremony conducted by this false religion. I am considering the   
   Catholic England of old that gave birth to this Monarchy, whose ceremonies   
   still   
   smolder under the ashes of that unfortunate Protestant branch. I am reflecting   
   on this coronation as a symbol.   
      
   Now, let us consider the Assumption of Our Lady. After her most serene death   
   and   
   resurrection, Our Lady knew that she would be taken to Heaven. She knew because   
   she had reached the summit of her sanctity and wisdom, which communicated to   
   her   
   that the hour of her glorification had come. Also her love of God had never   
   been   
   so intense and she felt that the moment of the Beatific Vision was near. So,   
   Angels from the highest Choirs came down to bring her solemnly to Heaven.   
      
   I imagine that her angelic carriage, to use a metaphor, was preceded and   
   followed by a cortege of selected Angels, perhaps warrior Angels with many   
   victories against the Devil, like the military cortege of the Queen of England.   
   Then she arrived at that most solemn place in Heaven where the inhabitants were   
   gathered to pay her homage. She was received by her chaste spouse St. Joseph   
   and   
   together, as in a cathedral, they processed down an aisle among the ordered   
   ensemble of Saints.   
      
   As she passed and moved toward the throne of the Holy Trinity, Who awaited her,   
   she received the reverence of all the Saints and Angels. In this cortege of   
   honor, she not only received the homage of each one, but she had a perfect   
   understanding and discernment of what each homage represented. To each Saint or   
   Angel, whom she personally recognized, she gave the proportionate retribution   
   of   
   affection and admiration. She took great joy in this hyperdulia of the   
   inhabitants of Heaven honoring her because she was the Mother of Our Lord Jesus   
   Christ and the creature most faithful to Him.   
      
   As the procession came to an end, the feast of the Assumption reached its apex.   
   For the first time Our Lady experienced the Beatific Vision; at that same   
   moment   
   she was received by the Divine Word, the Holy Ghost, and God the Father. They   
   solemnly welcomed her, greeting her as the most beloved Daughter of the Father,   
   the most admirable Mother of the Son, and the most faithful Spouse of the Holy   
   Ghost. Then they proclaimed her Queen of Heaven and Earth. After this   
   proclamation, the Three crowned her as such.   
      
   All the preceding steps of her Assumption led up to that stupendous end. She   
   ardently desired that end and it enormously pleased her. This hypothetical   
   description gives you a faint idea of the ensemble of joys Our Lady experienced   
   that day.   
      
   I want to stress that this is not a hyperbole, an exaggeration. I think that a   
   feast like this actually took place in Heaven as part of the Assumption of Our   
   Lady. Her assumption, her glorification, and her coronation were three things   
   that came together in a grand ceremony in Heaven.   
      
   A similar glorification will take place at the end of History after the Last   
   Judgment. Following the supreme glorification of Our Lord as King of History   
   and   
   the solemn recognition of His victory over Satan and his cohorts and armies, it   
   is probable that Our Lord will pay a final homage to Our Lady, and again the   
   Holy Trinity will confirm her sovereignty over Heaven and Earth - the glorified   
   Earth at the end of the world.   
      
   It is my opinion that this glorification of Our Lady at her resurrection and   
   assumption had an effect on earth and nature. As at Fatima when the sun changed   
   its colors and danced, twirling toward the earth to confirm the words she spoke   
   to the children, on the day of her Assumption, I imagine the sun was shining   
   with a special glorified light, the air was exceptionally pure, and all nature   
   was immensely joyful.   
      
   The face of Our Lady before the Assumption would have shined with increasing   
   brilliance expressing the great love of God she was feeling, her eagerness to   
   be   
   with Him, and a presentiment of the joys she would shortly have. I think that   
   the last day of Our Lady on earth in a certain sense represents the   
   transfiguration of Our Lady; it was her Tabor. The persons who were with her   
   and   
   saw her would never forget that day for the rest of their lives.   
      
   I think that she will communicate to us and to the entire earth some of the joy   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)