Mark Dohle
Well-Known Member
The Assumption of Mary
(Written in 2016 for our Abbatial Blessing)
Since our Order is dedicated to the Blessed Mother and our Monastery has her in our name, it is fitting to have the abbatial blessing on this day. The full title of our Monastery is “Our Lady of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit”.
This feast day is Trinitarian in nature, for in this feast the Trinity shows all of us who die in God’s love our future. For as Christ Jesus was fully human, and totally abandoned to the Father’s will, So Mary of all of God’s creatures who understands her place within the Body-of-Christ, is above all the most humble, who truly understands the freely given grace bestowed upon her, without any merit on her part. Her humility is based on the absolute knowledge that she has of her nothingness without the grace and love of the Holy Trinity. She was all the days of her life a total ‘Yes” in her abandonment to the working of grace in her heart. In that, she is the mother of all Christians and of all humanity and whose joy and function is to bring all to her son Jesus Christ. In the Body of Christ, those who go before us are now one with the Mind-of-Christ, so they, like Mary participate through grace in the ongoing plan of salvation. It is a shame that for many Christian she is a stumbling block to unity.
In our church, we have our Salve Window which is Trinitarian in its composition and a beautiful Icon to meditate upon and to grow in wonder at the depth of God’s love for mankind, and the total generosity of the grace bestowed on all of us.
So yes today is a good day for the abbatial blessing.—Br.MD