MARY, MOTHER OF ALL RULERS!

Hear, O daughter, consider, and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house; and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him; the people of Tyre will sue your favor with gifts, the richest of the people

Instead of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth.

Psalms 45: 10 - 12, 16

ARE YOU THE ACCUSER OR ACCUSED?

God's temple is shaken . . .
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

Mary is in pain . . .
And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.

Jesus, the one true ruler brings salvation . . .
Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Revelation 11: 19, 12: 1 - 6, 10

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity)

Take notice that if souls do not find themselves quite resolved to pardon any injury or affront which may be inflicted upon them, they cannot trust much to their prayer. For the soul which God truly unites to Himself by so lofty a method of prayer, feels none of these things, and no longer cares whether she is esteemed or not, or whether she is spoke well of or ill; nay rather honors and repose give her more pain than dishonor and trials.
-- St. Teresa