This “hope for all” is what the liturgy has always attempted to sing on this feast, with the language and images at its disposal. Perhaps today some liturgical expressions and some iconographic representations seem to us inadequate, but the aspiration that they endeavored to express remains the same also in our days and even in the din of the mid-August holidays. We love this our earth, yet we feel constrained here; we are preoccupied about our bodies, yet feel that we are greater than our physical make-up; we struggle for time and against time, yet perceive that our truth is greater than time; we enjoy friendship and love, yet recognize our limits and fear its transiency. Perhaps a humble woman of Nazareth, who became by God’s gift the Mother of the Lord, is just the pledge for us of this possibility “to think big” – which is a broadening of horizons and not of covetousness, greatness of spirit and not of pretensions. In that case that body transplanted towards the Light that is the source and destination of every light does not regard only the devotion of some faithful, but the final destiny of the entire creation assumed by the Uncreated; it is the flesh itself of the earth, which, transfigured, becomes eucharist, thanksgiving, embrace with heaven.

Yes, on the feast of Mary assumed into heaven Christians are invited in this period of vacations to transform into thanksgiving, eucharist, a rendering of thanks to the Creator and to the Savior the creation that they contemplate and that they ought to guard with love and care.

From:
ENZO BIANCHI
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pp. 137-139.