Assumption

We should remember upon this Feast of the Assumption that all things of Mary point to Christ.  The Rosary is a prayer which draws us into Christ's life, reveals it to us through the eyes and experiences of Mary.  This is obvious for most of the Mysteries, but perhaps less so for today's, the Feast of the Assumption.  The Assumption is not about Mary, so much as it is about the perfection of our hope in the Easter promise.  Mary is not only a witness to the Risen Lord, her Assumption is the first fruits of the Resurrection, she is the first human besides Christ who is brought body and soul into Heaven by the power of God's love and Grace.  The meditation upon the Assumption is not meant to focus our eyes on Mary, but to focus them on the God who has brought her so totally to Himself, that we might truly "imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise."  She is the lens by which we see His desire for all of us, what He would make all of us to be, if we but cooperate.  On this Feast of the Assumption I give myself to Mary that she might bring me to Christ, for she herself has been brought completely to God, not through herself, but through that humility which says, "yes" wholly to the will of the Lord.  As she says, so say I.  Totus tuus Maria!