From the sermon given on the Feast of the Assumption - August 15, 2019
We acknowledge thee and we venerate thee, Most Holy Virgin, Queen of Heaven, Lady and Mistress of the Universe,
as Daughter of the Eternal Father,
Mother of His well-beloved Son,
and most loving Spouse of the Holy Ghost.
We rejoice at thy glorious Assumption into Heaven;
and now that thou art enthroned as Queen of Heaven and earth, forget us not, thy poor servants.
From Heaven thou seest more plainly our miseries;
hence thou must compassionate and succor us the more.
Make us thy faithful servants on earth, that thus we may one day praise thee in Heaven.
Ah, most sweet Mother, by the merits of thy precious death, obtain for us that we may be humble, detached from the world, resigned to the divine will; obtain us the holy fear of God, a good death, and Paradise at last.
O Queen assumed into Heaven, commend us to thy Son.
Grant, O blessed one, by the grace which thou hast merited, that He who through thee was graciously pleased to become a partaker of our infirmity and misery, may also, through thy intercession, make us partakers of His happiness and glory. Amen.
Our Lady of the Assumption, Ora Pro Nobis!
At the moment of death, Mary whispered, “Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.”
Then the eyes of the Mother of God gently closed. And her soul, without effort, left her body.