Contemplating Mary on the day of her Assumption

I am sure that Mary’s faith was challenged and assaulted by a barrage of questions battering her, one wave after another. Challenged but never conquered.

In order not to succumb she had to utilize an enormous amount of mature faith, simple and unadulterated faith, which depended solely on God Himself.

Her secret was this; not so much to resist but to surrender and accept His will. She wasn’t able to change anything: neither the mysterious delay in Jesus’ coming out, nor his normal unexceptional thirty years, nor especially, the baffling silence of her Lord. If Mary could not change anything, why resist it? The Father wanted it that way, and so it was.

Only the development of a supreme intimacy with the Father and her indestructible sense of abandonment in His hands saved Mary from the worst pitfall of her pilgrimage. Thus, it was that Mary understood the passage of those thirty years navigating in the boat of an unwavering adult faith.

The whole mystery of Mary was wrapped up in the folds of silence for the greater part of her life. Many of her privileges ...” Immaculate, Assumed into Heaven” ...were hidden in silence for so many years, even in the Church. Again, we return to the same conclusion: the decisive is really in the silence.

Extracted from the book “The Silence of Mary” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga