DEACON MIKE'S REFLECTION ON THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY

     If there were no sin all of us would have been born with the privilege of the Immaculate Conception.  If there were no sin there would be no suffering or death. The Blessed Mother Mary was preserved free from all sin, original and actual. She persevered in God’s grace by always saying “yes.”  Because she was free from sin, her death was not caused by sin.  She died in imitation of, and in participation with, the death of her Son, Jesus. She died as an act of total self giving.  But death could not hold her.  She was raised in glory.  She is the first of the redeemed to be raised.
     On the last day, we too shall be taken body and soul to heaven as Mary was. Her ASSUMPTION is a sign to us of our destiny.  She is what we would have been; she is the model and promise of what we shall be.  The Blessed Virgin Mary is the first to be redeemed, the new Eve, the Mother of our Church, our Mother in heaven.Pray for us Mother of God now and at the hour of death,   Amen.
                                                                                 Deacon Michael Zatarga