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The Passing of Mary

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Section 4

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4. And St. John said to her: How shall I

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alone

perform

thy

funeral

rites

,

unless

my

brethren

and

fellow

-

apostles

of

my

Lord

Jesus

Christ

come

to

pay

honour

to

thy

body

?

And

,

behold

,

on

a

sudden

,

by

the

command

of

God

,

all

the

apostles

were

snatched

up

,

raised

on

a

cloud

,

from

the

places

in

which

they

were

preaching

the

word

of

God

,

and

set

down

before

the

door

of

the

house

in

which

Mary

dwelt

.

And

,

saluting

each

other

,

they

wondered

,

saying

:

What

is

the

cause

for

which

the

Lord

hath

assembled

us

here

?

Notes

5
The otherms. here adds: And there came with them Paul, converted from the circumcision, who had been selected along with Barnabas for the ministry of the Gentiles. And when there was a pious contention among them as to which of them should be the first to pray to the Lord to show them the reason, and Peter was urging Paul to pray first, Paul answered and said: That is thy duty, to begin first, especially seeing that thou hast been chosen by God a pillar (Gal. ii. 9) of the Church, and thou hast precedence of all in the apostleship; but it is by no means mine, for I am the least of you all, and Christ was seen by me as one born out of due time (1 Cor. xv. 8); nor do I presume to make myself equal to you: nevertheless by the grace of God I am what I am (1 Cor. xv. 10).