Ave Maria Meditations
The day of your assumption was a great day of your triumph! And your trial, as the Mother of the Word of God Incarnate, having perfectly followed out the great designs of God upon you, having acquired immense merits by the practice of all the virtues and having reached the highest holiness, you were assumed body and soul into heaven. Angels came to escort you. You were born aloft to the palace of your beloved Son.
You passed amid the different choirs of the blessed, above all the heavenly spirits, and approached the throne of light prepared for you. Your loving Son welcomed you with joy. What songs of gladness by the elect as you were crowned by the Blessed Trinity and made Queen of heaven, advocate of the human race, and dispenser of the graces of the Redemption!
From the Complete Marian prayer book
