Dennis Teall-Fleming shares a thoughtful meditation on Assumption Sunday and how we should be looking back to the Feast of Visitation to see Mary, the mother of Jesus, in all of her courage and glory.  An excerpt from Dennis's post, Mary's Courage:

Visitation follows Annunciation, also told only in Luke — the angel Gabriel’s announcing to Mary that she will bear a son, the Messiah, and Mary courageously accepting this mission.

The post also included this great icon: