Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (2)

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Picture a threshing floor at harvest time. The grain has been brought in from the fields. The air smells of wheat and is filled with dust. Sunlight catches the husks so that everything seems golden. Underfoot, the farmer separates the …

The readings in our Mass today asks us, I think, to focus on God’s victory over evil and God’s power at work in Mary, and whether we allow it to work in ours lives as well.

When Pope Pius XII proclaimed Mary’s Assumption in 1950, he called his document Munificentissimus …