My relationship and understanding of Mary, the Mother of God wasn’t always great. (And I was even named after her!) I understood that I needed to respect her in a Fourth Commandment type way, but besides that, I wasn’t really sure where she fit into my life.
As one might expect, it was in the middle of my own journey to motherhood that I began to understand and lean on her for intercession. As a woman who had suffered multiple miscarriages with no living children, I was skeptical of any pregnancy coming to term, even with the help of medical interventions I had not had in prior pregnancies.
Because of my history of losses, I had quite a few ultrasounds, many more than are standard for normal risk pregnancies. Before every ultrasound, I felt like I was in a state of emergency since I didn’t know if my children were alive or not. I’d heard of Mother Teresa’s “Flying Novena” that could be used when there wasn’t time for a full nine-day novena. The main prayer in this novena is the Memorare. I decided to try it, because I felt I had my entire world to lose.
Before every ultrasound, I would pray nine Memorares asking that my twins be alive within me, and a tenth thanking Mary for caring for me. And today, I have two three-year-old boys running around. I know, had it been a different outcome, she still would have been there comforting me. But I think the experience of loss, and then the birth of my twins, helped me to understand her maternal love and intercession for all of us.
We celebrate Mary’s Assumption today, the only person besides Jesus to rise to Heaven body and soul. As we reflect on her place with the Lord, let us always count on her maternal love and care for us. “Behold, your Mother.”
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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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The Solemnity Of The Assumption
The Feast of the Assumption celebrates both the departure of Mary from this life by her natural death and her assumption bodily into heaven.
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