Bead Twenty Crowned with Love
It is easy to imagine the joy with which Mary would have been welcomed into heaven, Jesus and Joseph with their arms outstretched to hold her, united in happiness, her life’s work on earth over. Her loved ones, her nephew, John, and all the friends and neighbours she had known, everyone who had gone before her, welcomed her and thanked God for the gift of her life and love.
The image of Mary’s entrance into heaven was celebrated as people envisioned her being welcomed and crowned as Queen of Heaven by the angels and loved by all those holy and redeemed people who had already found their eternal home with God.
She was seen, not as an earthly queen, dressed in costly robes and adorned with jewels, but as the Queen of Love, adorned only by the beauty of her holiness, her humility, and the love she bore for God, for her son, Jesus, for Joseph and for all God’s people, now and forever, her children.
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