OAU (AU) Golden Jubilee 2013 American Inquiry

NOW when the Son of this holy woman Maryam,
whose pure flesh He had taken upon Himself,
went up into heaven, He sat down on the right hand of
His Father, having fulfilled all the Law, and taken
upon Himself human nature, with the exception of sin,
and gained dominion over the pains of the Cross by
His own free will which He exercised for our redemption.

And He left His mother Mary in the house of
John His disciple, whom He loved, and whom He committed unto her protection, saying,

"Behold thy son,"

and also to that disciple He said,

"Behold thy mother."

And our Lady Mary dwelt [there], and she was wont
to go unto the grave of her Son, that is to say, to Golgotha, to pray there.

And it came to pass that when the Jews saw her they were filled with wrath and jealousy, and they wished to stone her, but God made her to disappear from their sight.

Then they took counsel together and appointed guards over His grave, so that she might not be able to come and pray there again; but she ceased not to go there each day.

Now the guards never saw her, for the mantle of the glory of her Son made her to be invisible, and angels came unto her at all times to minister unto her, and her Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, watched over her continually, and fulfilled for her all her desires.

And after this He made her to ascend into heaven,
and He shewed her the place where the righteous rest,
and where dwell Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and the
spirits of all the Fathers who had died from Adam unto Christ received her.

And they bowed down before her and said,

"Glory be unto God Who hath created thee for us, flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone; in thee
we have found redemption”.

“And thou hast become the Gate of Life leading away from destruction, through the Incarnation of the Son of God of thee."
Then the angels lifted her up and carried her unto her beloved Son, [Who was seated upon] His throne; and flames of fire covered Him round about on the right hand and on the left.

Then our Lord took her hand, and He kissed her mouth and said unto her,

"Hast thou come, O My mother"?

Then He made her to ascend His throne of glory, and to sit by His side, and He described unto her the joy and gladness which eye hath never seen, and ear hath never heard, and the heart of man hath never imagined, that He had prepared for her.

And below the throne she saw David her father, the
King of Israel, together with all the Company of the
Prophets and the angels; and the souls of the righteous were standing round about them.

And David was singing psalms to his harp, and saying,

"Hearken, O my daughter, see and incline thine ear, forget thy people in thy father's house, for the King hath desired thy beauty, and He is thy Lord" (Psalm xlv, ii).

And again the angels set her so that she might see the place of judgement, and they brought her unto the
place which was the boundary of the darkness that had
been prepared for Satan and his angels, and for all those who walked in his ways.

Then our Lady Maryam said,

"Woe is me ! Who will announce to the children of men that they shall come here"?

And an angel said unto her,

"Fear thou not, O Mary, God is with thee”.

“He is with thee, and He will be with those who shall
come after thee".


Then the angels carried her along and brought her back to her [former] place.

And straightway our Lady Mary sat down, being exceedingly sorrowful for all the sinners.

Now that day was the sixteenth day of the month Yakatit, and she stood up on the

"place of the skull" (Golgotha),

and she made supplication unto her Son, saying,

"I adjure Thee, O my Son, by God Almighty Thy Father, and by Thy Name Christ, by the Paraclete Thy Spirit, and by my womb which bore Thee, Whom earth is not able to bear, and Whom even the angels are not able to approach for nine months and five days;

I adjure Thee, O my Son, by Thy going forth from me without pain, and by Thy birth;

I adjure Thee by my breasts which gave Thee suck, and by my lips