On the Feast of the Assumption

There is something sublime, and wonderful about going to confession on the feast of the Assumption, as I did today. The Assumption itself is the most sublime of all the Church's feast-days. For it points to a practicle application of the Resurection; which is the mystery of the Church, the sine qui non (is that right?). But the Resurection is in a way an ideal, a special case; after all we are not the Godhead. But the Assumption is a particuler of this ideal, a this Resurection of this person. In other words, it is the future that we all, God willing, will have. Further, it is a feast that manifests that God is the actor, and we only react. After all the other great mysteries are about God acting as God, like the Transfiguration. This one is about God acting on man! Man and his salvation are what is important today. Our Salvation! This is the feast that ends the story that started with the words "Let Us make Man ...". For after the Assupmtion of one of us comes the glory of all of us. Just as Christ glorified Jerusalem by walking in Jersusalem, work by doing work, and death by dying. So our approaching God is glorified by letting his mother approach Him. The Assumption is the happiness that we forget lives in the doctrine of predestination (or as the protestants say justification).

So it is obvious why confession is so wonderful today. Because this Sacrement is so clearly God acting, and us reacting. I, in going to confession, am doing nothing, but God is restoring order to the cosmos is his granting forgiveness to myself. In justice all my sins where forgiven through the cross, and in mercy I am brought up to God in his grace. I am assumed into the company of the blessed, (at least for now, let us hope forever).