The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-15
The Assumption.

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are taught to believe in the resurrection cJ t@e
body, and it ia only natural that the true
Christian should conclude that this privilege
was accorded to the Mother of Our Lord I'M
media.ely after death, instead OF being de-
ferred to the day of general Judgment.
Death for the Blessed Virgin Mary was not
like death as we are apt to look upon 1t; IL
was the "going home" which her heart
had long desired; it was the Mother going to
her Son, the bride to her Spouse, the daughter
to her Eternal Father. Who among created
beings could claim such close relationship to
| God or who could look forward to union 30
sacred and yet so real as thisf
| As mau is not the soul separated from the |
body, nor the body separated from the soul,
but union of both the spiritual and material
parts, 80 the Blessed Mother of Our Lord,
| whom He loved on earth and would crown
with eternal joy in Heaven; whom he had
left in vale of tears, and would welcome to
throne of endless glory; whom men had loved
and honored, and whom angels were to emo"
and praise she surely must have entered into
Heaven as the roman full of grace, as the humble
yirpin of Nazareth, as the Mother who mad
tasted all the Joys and all the sorrows Oh
motherhood. In word, the inhaplsants Oh
Heaven, seeing the radiant vision OF tne Im
) maculate" Virgin as she was borne oy INC
) power of her Son into His divine presence
i. must needs have exclaimed in the words OF st.
| Elizabeth: "Whence is this that the Mother
of nv Lord should come to visit me"
Whence is thisi Because of Gods Infinite
4. power, love and mercy.
~ The Mother of Our Lord Yes, the woman full
y of grace, the woman with the grand heroic
% soul, yet frail and delicate body the woman
1,arS San ynfk KEN
ID things hidden in her heart.
3 To risit us No! but clothed in garments OF
flesh. vet robed with immortality, abe comes to
70 remain forever bearing about her that which
II unites her with men, yet crowned with part
at of the glory of God, she will remain an inter
cessor between the weakness of the one and
> the mower of the other-a Mother to men that
. she may ask, and Mother to God that she
How simple, and yet how sublime! Ho"
much consolation this thought affords to man
and how much glory it reflects upon God DO"
to it helps us to understand her titles to GU
ry confidence, Help of Christians, Refuge O
st. Sinners. Comfortress of the Afflicted! How
Re. it brings before us the vision vouchsated onl
,;s to the Apostle-"a Woman clothed with tn
nm sun, having the moon under her feet, and o.
- her head a crown of twelve stars"
Can words be found in any human languag
equal to these inspired ones, which convey
~ once to the mind perfect realization OF tn
na' tradition of the Assumption, and confirm on
ere intuitive faith in the purity and humility Q
zee the Virgin, and in the power and magnlhcenc
o of her Son!
,+o couragement given it by the Church, has g
-, ways considered this subject amoRg lite mobiles
- inspirations. Dante sang the welcome of tt
angels as they saluted her IS Queen.
nm And CAROL smiles the Lovely One Of heaven,
up That Joy is in the eyes of all the blest"
son What Dante pictured in words the paint
i'm has embodied with his brush and the scnlpt
lta- with his chisel As early as 1880, this subje
of is found at Assist, in the Churchof St. Frances
painted by Gunta Pisauo, where the i'd
zen seems taken from the Canticles " Who is til
onr that ariseth from the wilderness leaning up
200 her belovedf" In the picture the Virgin
-. resting on clouds, but the arm of her Divi
Son supports and raises her.
No In 1859, Andrea Orcagna painted for a chur
: in :, Forence the same design: but here t
ness virgin is accompanied by angels only, VIII
not the Divine Son is stsrdiug to receive and "
nave come her into His Kingdom.
heir In 1413, she is represented by Taddeo B
,ally toll as "partly lifted up upoE the expand
his many-coIoreu wings OF olusCeF Oh SpsetS'
lem party ara~n up as ~ "oto, " ~,
80 power of Christ, who, floating above her, tai
her casped hands in His"
c'eu In 1916, the immortal Raphael painted
and scatad nnon a CRESCENT moon. serenely pass
gen. beyond this earth to the bosom of her God
were We have all heard of Correggio's mast
atua- piece in the CupOla of the Duomo at PsrI
ases. and of Titian's gorgeous painting of the ga
i.pce subject for the Church of the Assumption
> tho Venice. Rubeus is said to have painted TIVE
- ho Assumptions in one of which is represen
the tomb filed with lilies.
This part of the legend is so suggestive
u the Virgins virtues, her purity, gentleness
oney' maiden meekness, that we think it ought