You Will Take It With You

On this Solemnity of the Glorious Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary that is my concise reflection.

You will take it with you: your body, that is, as Mary did; and, hopefully, to the same place.

What you do with your body is gravely important, therefore. It has eternal consequences.

"Now the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Now God has raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? By no means! Or do you not know that he who cleaves to a harlot, becomes one body with her? 'For the two,' it says, 'shall be one flesh.' but he who cleaves to the Lord is one spirit with him. Flee immorality. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your members are the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify God and bear him in your body" 1Cor. 6:13

"Our citizenship is in heaven from which also we eagerly await a Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, who will refashion the body of our lowliness, conforming it to the body of his glory by exerting the power by which he is able also to subject all things to himself. So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and my crown, stand fast thus in the Lord, beloved." Phil. 3:21-4:1.

This idea of the grandeur of human flesh as accented by the Virgin's Glorious Assumption was triggered by Ratzinger's meditation for 15 August in Co-Workers of the Truth.