Our Mother’s Assumption brings before us the thought of the final destiny of her children. We are not meant to enjoy the Beatific Vision merely as separated souls. One day we too are to live before God in body as well as soul, in a body spiritualized and glorified by the power which flows to it from the soul’s vision of God as He is in Himself. The Holy Father, in defining the Assumption of our Lady, wanted us to honor her anticipated resurrection. But he also wanted to revivify our faith in the resurrection of our own bodies, for this belief is a great trial to the reason of the natural man and is therefore a precious test of the seriousness of our acceptance of the revealed word of God which so clearly teaches it.
Charles J. Callan, OP and John F. McConnell, MM
from Spiritual Riches of the Rosary Mysteries
