"It was necessary that she, who with fixed eyes on her Son hanging on the crosshad her heart transpierced by a sword, gaze upon Him at the right hand of the Father."
— Assumption of Mary

January 1, 1970

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Saint John of Damascus, In dormit., Hom. II, 14, PG, 96, 741. As reported in Joseph Duhr, SJ, The Glorious Assumption of the Mother of God, translated by John Manning Frances, SJ, Pç.J. Kenedy & Sons, New York, June 1950 (with nihil obstat by John M.A. Fearns, S.T.D., and imprimatur by Cardinal Francis Spellman given on September 18, 1950), p. 31 (of 153).