Friends, today we celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In her great Magnificat, Mary is the new Isaiah and the new Jeremiah and
the new Ezekiel, for she announces with greatest clarity and joy the coming of the Messiah.
What
was only vaguely foreseen in those great prophetic figures is now in
clear focus: “He has shown the strength of his arm; he has scattered the
proud in their conceit; he has filled the hungry with good things and
the rich he has sent away empty. He has come to the help of his servant
Israel, for he has remembered his promise of mercy, the promise he made
to our fathers, to Abraham and his children forever.” There is nothing
stronger or more beautiful in any of the prophets.
Mary
is the true Israel, and she knows what to do and how to do it with
enthusiasm. No dawdling, backpedaling, straying, or complaining: she
moves, she goes. And she goes upon the heights (the “hill country” that
Luke describes), which is exactly where God had always summoned Israel,
so that it could be a light to the nations.
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