This is the nucleus of our faith in the Assumption: we believe that Mary, like Christ her Son, overcame death and is already triumphant in heavenly glory, in the totality of her being,”in body and soul”..
The Mother of God is so deeply integrated into Christ’s Mystery that at the end of her earthly life she already participates with her whole self in her Son’s resurrection…
God knows and loves the whole of the human being, what we are. And God welcomes into his eternity what is developing and becoming now, in our life made up of suffering and love, of hope,joy and sorrow. The whole of man, the whole of his life, is taken by God and, purified in him, receives eternity…
I think this is a truth that should fill us with deep joy. Christianity does not proclaim merely some salvation of the soul in a vague afterlife in which all that is precious and dear to us in this world would be eliminated,but promises eternal life, “the life of the world to come.” Nothing that is precious and dear to us will fall into ruin; rather it will find fullness in God. Every hair of our head is counted, Jesus said one day (cf. Mt 10:30)…
In Mary taken up into heaven, who fully shares in the Resurrection of the Son, we contemplate the fulfillment of the human creature in accordance with “God’s world.”
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI wrote elsewhere that “precisely because Mary is with God and in God, she is close to each one of us. While she lived on this earth she could only be close to a few people. Being in God, who is actually ‘within’ all of us, Mary shares in this closeness of God.” Our Lady “knows our hearts, can hear our prayers, can help us with her motherly kindness. She always listens to us and, being Mother of the Son, participates in the power of the Son and in His goodness. We can always entrust the whole of our lives to this Mother.”
The Blessed Mother’s birth into heaven generates in us “an ever new capacity to await God’s future” ( Blessed John Paul II)
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