“Mary’s Assumption is an event that concerns us precisely because every human being is destined to die. But death is not the last word. Death – the mystery of the Virgin’s Assumption assures us – is the passage to life, the encounter with Love. It is the passage to the eternal happiness in store for those who toil for truth and justice and do their utmost to follow Christ.”
Pope Saint John Paul II
“Precisely because Mary is with God and in God, she is very close to each one of us. While she lived on the 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. She 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.”
Msgr. Ronald Knox
