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to Him on earth shall be honored by His Father in heaven, therefore was the Virgin, at the close of her life, taken up to Christ's heavenly house and made the queen thereof. We can imagine how she spent her time after the Resurrection of Our Lord, visiting again each spot hallowed by His presence; visiting the homes of His youth and manhood, and going over the sad scenes of His Passion and death and burial, while all the time she sighed in spirit to be dissolved and go to God. As the stag thirsts after the fountains of water, so did her soul long for God. At length the happy day came when she heard the summons: " The winter is passed, and the snow is melted and gone; arise, My beloved, and come." Because she was a poor child of Eve like ourselves, and so subject to the death from which not even her Son was exempt, therefore at the call of God she sank into the painless sleep of death. But not for long, for though it is a general law of humanity that each soul, on coming, find a body here and, departing, leave that body behind, still neither the King of men nor the Queen His Mother, are bound by the laws framed for their subjects. Hence, just as Christ arose body and soul, after three days, from the dead, so Mary, after a brief space, arose body and soul and was assumed into the home of her Father. For how can I believe that that body of Mary which bore and nourished the Saviour Himself — that body, of which Christ's body was bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh — that body which is so intimately connected with Christ my