Day 187: God is Never Outdone
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I'm Fr. Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars with Renewal, and this is the Rosary in the Year podcast. We're through prayer and meditation. The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 187. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars.
No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap follow or subscribe for your daily notifications. Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the fourth glorious mystery, the Assumption, with help from a stained glass in the Burgos Cathedral entitled Assumption of Mary. Brief introduction to our artwork. The specific artist of the Assumption of Mary stained glass is unknown. It was created in the 15th to 16th century. And though the exact artist is unknown, the stained glass reflects the collaborative craftsmanship of Burgos Cathedral's workshops, influenced by Flemish and Spanish Gothic traditions. And now a description of today's artwork. In the center of a group of three windows, through the jewel-toned hues of stained glass, shines the Virgin Mary with a golden halo.
Mary rises above earth upon blue clouds flanked with angels with colorful wings. Her palms are opened. Behind her, the blue clouds open up to reveal yellow beams as she is assumed to heaven. Directly below her, two haloed men gently tend to blossoms in a raised garden, bed-shaped like a sarcophagus, resembling an empty tomb. Each of the vibrant windows are decorated with ornate Gothic tracery with curling gold details. In the side panels, 10 disciples, five in each window, stand among grasses, rocks, and distant mountains. Their golden halos glow as they gaze upward in awe, witnessing the miraculous moment of Mary's assumption. Today we have Mary being assumed into heaven. being depicted through the stained glass window.
And I'd say it's actually quite fitting that our two stained glass windows that we've looked at in this Rosary in a Year pilgrimage here have been the mystery of the Transfiguration and now secondly, the mystery of the Assumption. And again, I think this is fitting. And so I'm going to go ahead and take a moment and connect the dots, starting with a poetic, pious tradition and moving towards that which is more profound and more sure. So there's what can be called a pious tradition, that the garment being worn by Jesus at the transfiguration was made for him by Mary. And what in the gospels do we read about the garment? We read that on the mountain, Jesus was transfigured and his garment was made dazzling white.
And commentators on this gospel and in this detail, such as Pope Benedict XVI, see in the dazzling white garment, a promise that Jesus will glorify that which he receives from us and he will glorify us. He says, through baptism, we are clothed with Jesus in light and we ourselves become light. So now let's take this kind of a little bit deeper looking at the relationship between Jesus and Mary. Jesus receives his humanity from Mary, like St. Augustine says, this is a quote, he took his flesh from the flesh of Mary. So even more, right, than just receiving material clothing from Mary, he receives his humanity, his flesh from Mary. And he glorifies it. In turn, he will glorify Mary. Jesus, who received a share in her humanity, will give her a share in his divinity through what is called theosis.
The transfiguration, right? That first window gives witness to the fact that Jesus is the light. The assumption gives witness to Mary becoming light by grace. Brothers and sisters, we are called to share in the very life of God.
Which stained glass artwork of the Burgos Cathedral is featured and what is its historical context?
And what I want to key in on is, is the way in which Jesus is not outdone in generosity in the life of Mary.
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