It Wasn't Right

In Tanzania we celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady on Sunday preceding or following the August 15 (unless it is Sunday of August 15 itself). That is why we celebrated the Solemnity today in my parish as elsewhere in Tanzania. In my homily I focused on Divine Logic and God's meticulousness  in guiding life of Our Lady...
Holy Father, Blessed John Paul II wrote the encyclical letter on Faith and Reason. Yes, our Faith is reasonable and beautifully logical. Dogmas of the Catholic Church are interconnected and logical. We are bound to believe firmly in Catholic dogmas, all of them. The example of mystery of Our Lady explains beautifully the logic of dogmas of our Church.

We believe firmly that Our Lady is Immaculate Conceived. She was preserved from the state we, the rest of humans, inherit when we are born - being born in the state of immortal sin caused by the outcome of the original sin of Adam and Eve. Not only this, the landscape of human nature we find ourselves in - is of bias towards evil rather than towards good. We need not only to be baptized in order to restore us to the state before the original sin, but more so - we need to fight to overcome that bias in our whole life, struggling to get rid of bad habits and adorn our souls with Divine and Christian virtues...

This is our way to heavenly Jerusalem, this is our way to Father's House...

Our Lady, Immaculate Conceived, was spared the experience of that state. The Evil One has nothing to do with Her. She is full of grace. She did not need to be baptized to restore the original state in which the first people were created. She never abandoned that state. She is now the Original Eve. She is the First Human Being as designed by God before times and She is the First Fruit of the Church as each one of us, saved, will be in Heaven when Christ comes again and judges the heaven and earth at the end of times.

In Her spiritual life She has been always connected and in union with God. Yet in Her earthly daily life She was not spared anything, us humans, experience and go through in our daily lives. Poverty, suffering, pain, being a refugee, house chores etc... She went through all this till the end...

And then, because She was out of the network of evil and outcome of original sin which brought death to us, humans, She did not die as us who die, our soul gets separated from body...body is buried awaiting the resurrection of the dead and soul is judged by God and will await the reconnection with the body at the end of times...

Our Lady - when time of Her earthly life came to an end according to God's plan - She fell asleep and was taken to heaven as a complete person, with her soul and body. She is in heaven in a way we all will be after resurrection, providing we will actually be in heaven and not in hell...

Such is a beauty of God's logical plan - shown in life or Our Lady. Each one of us should follow the same pattern if only our first parents did not commit the original sin.  But, even if we share the sorry state caused by original sin, even if we have to die and await the resurrection of our bodies till the end of times, we have Christ who came into our world, paid ransom for our sins, established His Church as a sure vehicle which will bring us to the threshold of Father's House, He gave us His Mother as His Testament and She is always with us as our caring Mother, guiding us and interceding for us...

Today's solemnity encourages me and gives me strength and hope that it wasn't right for us to die. This is not what God intended for us. Our Lady is the best example what we were supposed to be. We used our freedom badly and now we have to pay for it with our death. Yet still, God gave us His Son and His Mother to make sure that we take this tough road through Baptism, through Holy Church, fighting to stay on course, with the help of sacraments, prayer and God's blessings, with Jesus' Mother at our side...