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Dear brothers and sisters. We celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We celebrate that the Virgin Mary, after her earthly pilgrimage and after her death, was taken with body and soul into Heavenly glory and comes to her home. He comes to heaven, but he does not only come with a soul, but also comes with his body. She was taken with body and soul to heaven.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today, on this holiday, we listened to the Gospel according to Luke, specifically the event where the Virgin Mary set out on her journey after the Annunciation and came to Zechariah’s house. He greets Elizabeth, and we hear that beautiful conversation between Elizabeth and the Virgin Mary. Elizabeth speaks strange words, asks what she deserved, and that the Mother of my Lord comes to her. She is looking for something she deserved such a great honor coming for – God the Messiah himself comes in the bosom of the Virgin Mary, and she perceives it, because as we heard, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and perceives spiritually and feels God close to her – so close that she says these words: “What did I deserve, that the mother of my Lord comes to me?” He feels a great honor. Let’s try to think about these words that Elizabeth said.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today’s birthday is the Virgin Mary, and the Virgin Mary could also say these words about her life: “What did I do to deserve to be saved from original sin?” The Virgin Mary is conceived without the stain of original sin. Also, the Virgin Mary could say: “What I deserved was that I became the Mother of the Son of God, because God chose her to be the Mother of the Messiah. She could further say: “What I did to deserve was that Joseph understood that the child he was carrying in his womb was not the result of infidelity, but God’s intervention. And she could also say: “What did I do to deserve that after my death I was taken with body and soul to heaven?”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The answer is simple – it is an undeserved gift from God. It is an excellent gift of God that cannot be earned, paid for, or satisfied in any way. It is simply God’s gift that God gives to someone exceptionally, such as the Virgin Mary. Not only does the Virgin Mary give us undeserved gifts, but God also gives us undeserved gifts. Therefore, let’s look at our life through these words.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We can also ask what we deserve to be born at all. Or can we go even further – what did we do to deserve to be baptized and become God’s children, while original sin was washed away? Next, we can reflect on what we deserve: despite all the possible difficulties, pains, and suffering in our lives, we live in relative peace. For example, there is no war here. We have something to eat and a place to live. We have the opportunity to have a family, loved ones, and not live alone. What we deserve is that one day we can be saved when we die, and we too are taken to heaven. Not by our strength, not by our ability, but by God bringing us to heaven.\u2028What did we do to deserve it, dear brothers and sisters?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We can sum it up by saying that it is an excellent, undeserved gift of God that God gives us. He gives us all these gifts, and we have no way to satisfy them. But although we have no way to satisfy, God is the one who comes to love us. God is the one who comes into our lives with his grace. Our task is to respond as much and as best as possible to this great gift of God.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dear brothers and sisters, what should our answer be? It should concern all those gifts and graces of God that God gives us. We could do wondrous deeds all our lives. We can never repay or fully express our gratitude to God for all the good He gives us, because God gives us much more than we can imagine.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Virgin Mary goes well beyond us with her life. With her quality of life, she was conceived without blemish and protected from sin. She also did not commit any sin in her life and received great grace. God also gives us a lot of grace, and the Virgin Mary, although she was conceived and saved without sin, lived the best life she could. But in her life, as well as in our lives, there is one specific element, and that is the cross.\u2028Even the Virgin Mary, although she had no sin, carried the cross and suffered within herself. She suffered along with her son. Indeed, a mother who loves her son sees him suffer, literally tortured and killed. That Mother is suffering too. We call her the Seven Sorrowful Mother, the Seven Sorrowful Virgin Mary\u2014she who is near her son’s cross and suffers with him.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We know that the Virgin Mary carried her cross heroically, did not curse or grumble against the cross. Furthermore, we Christians are to have our cross. In this way, we show God that we are grateful for all the good that He gives us. We try to imitate all the good things he gives us. Let us strive for this, dear brothers and sisters, because we do not know when the Lord will call us from this world.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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