Yet we would live without mortification and suffering, and are inclined to murmur at what ought to be the subject of our joy and ambition. 17 Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me, for I am not yet ascended to my Father. 38 But Peter said to them: Do penance, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 5. During the course of time such postulations and petitions did not decrease but rather grew continually in number and in urgency. And thus saying, the Lord delivered the soul of St. Mary to Michael, who was the ruler of paradise, and the prince of the nation of the Jews; and Gabriel went with them. Firstly, S. Jerome answers that these women had gone forth frequently to the sepulchre, both in the evening and in the morning, so that the Evangelists refer to different occasions of their going forth. "(35) Moreover, it is reasonable and fitting that not only the soul and body of a man, but also the soul and body of a woman should have obtained heavenly glory. Each mystery is associated with a particular fruit, or virtue, which is illustrated by the actions of Christ and Mary in the event commemorated by that mystery. All these proofs and considerations of the holy Fathers and the theologians are based upon the Sacred Writings as their ultimate foundation. The house of death becomes the mansion of life; it receives a dead, and renders up a living man.”, Samson was a type of this, who having entered Gaza, and being besieged by the Philistines, rose up in the middle of the night and carried away the gates to the top of a mountain; because, as S. Gregory (Hom. The Glorious Mysteries. Hence our Lord said (John 16) that the Holy Ghost shall come and "convince the world . St. Bonaventure, De Nativitate B. Mariae Virginis, Sermo V. St. Bonaventure, De Assumptione B. Mariae Virginis, Sermo 1. 8. These are grouped by five into sets, the Joyful (or Joyous) Mysteries, the Sorrowful Mysteries, the Glorious Mysteries and the Luminous Mysteries. This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven" (Acts 1:11). This he does in a manner so much the more wonderful as he is infinite in power, love, and goodness, and as his ways are infinitely exalted above those of creatures. On His part, in regard to those things which, in ascending, He did for our salvation. And, behold, one of them, who was chief of the priests of the Jews in his rank, filled with fury and rage, said to the rest: Behold, the tabernacle of him who disturbed us and all our race, what glory has it received? (45) Consequently, just as the glorious resurrection of Christ was an essential part and the final sign of this victory, so that struggle which was common to the Blessed Virgin and her divine Son should be brought to a close by the glorification of her virginal body, for the same Apostle says: "When this mortal thing hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. And, in the Byzantine liturgy, not only is the Virgin Mary's bodily Assumption connected time and time again with the dignity of the Mother of God, but also with the other privileges, and in particular with the virginal motherhood granted her by a singular decree of God's Providence. “Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth.”. 49 And I send the promise of my Father upon you: but stay you in the city till you be endued with power from on high. And Peter answered him: You were the only virgin among us chosen by the Lord, and you found so great favour that you reclined upon His breast. A fourth set, the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary, was introduced by Pope John Paul II in 2002 as an optional devotion.). For by an earthquake God made known His presence on Sinai and elsewhere. . Now, just like the present age, our pontificate is weighed down by ever so many cares, anxieties, and troubles, by reason of very severe calamities that have taken place and by reason of the fact that many have strayed away from truth and virtue. Peter instructs that a new apostle must be appointed to take the place of the traitor Judas. The empty tomb on Easter Sunday is a sign of hope for all believers. We rejoice greatly that this solemn event falls, according to the design of God's providence, during this Holy Year, so that we are able, while the great Jubilee is being observed, to adorn the brow of God's Virgin Mother with this brilliant gem, and to leave a monument more enduring than bronze of our own most fervent love for the Mother of God. The most bountiful God, who is almighty, the plan of whose providence rests upon wisdom and love, tempers, in the secret purpose of his own mind, the sorrows of peoples and of individual men by means of joys that he interposes in their lives from time to time, in such a way that, under different conditions and in different ways, all things may work together unto good for those who love him.(1). Then the blessed Mary washed herself, and dressed herself like a queen, and waited the advent of her Son, as He had promised to her.