Mary's joy at the Ascension of Jesus

If Mary enjoyed great joy when her Son lived bodily beside her and just as much joy when that same Son, after destroying death, rose from the underworld, would she have had less joy when her Son entered Heaven before her own eyes, with that flesh which, as she well knew, he had taken from her?

Who has ever said or believed that her happiness at this moment was less than that of all the joys that preceded it?

The good mothers of this world feel great gladness when their sons are raised to earthly honors; and this mother - no doubt a good mother! - would she not have rejoiced with ineffable joy when she saw her only begotten son entering Heaven with power and dominion, and ascending to the throne of God the Father Almighty?

St. Eadmer of Canterbury

(Liber de excellentia Virginis Mariae, 6, PL 159, 568 C- 569 A)