A question about the Assumption

[hizstory]

I remember when I first studied to come into full communion with the Catholic Church reading differing accounts of the Assumption of Mary. I was wondering if anyone could tell me some of the traditional stories of the Assumption regarding the year or place.

Thanks.

 

[LittleHannah]

I don’t think we know the year or place. Tradition says since its not in Scripture ] that Mary was assumed body and soul into Heaven.

 

[ConstantineTG]

The Dormition of the Theotokos would be the traditional story of the Assumption. Here is a good summary of the event: orthodoxwiki.org/Dormition

 

[corsair]

She lived in Ephesus, which is in modern day Turkey.

 

[corsair]

Here is another link newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm

 

[GaryTaylor]

Really is no difference between the Assumption or the Dormition. They are one of the same which date to the early church united with East/West. The difference reside’s in the ex-cathedra work of the Pope which allowed that Our Lady may well have been assumed alive into Heaven.

 

[hizstory]

Thanks for the links

 

[Swiss_Guy]

Really is no difference between the Assumption or the Dormition. They are one of the same which date to the early church united with East/West. The difference reside’s in the ex-cathedra work of the Pope which allowed that Our Lady may well have been assumed alive into Heaven.

But you don’t really “fall asleep” (Dormition) when you are alive. Unless of course, Mary was sleeping when she was Assumed.

 

[ConstantineTG]

Really is no difference between the Assumption or the Dormition. They are one of the same which date to the early church united with East/West. The difference reside’s in the ex-cathedra work of the Pope which allowed that Our Lady may well have been assumed alive into Heaven.

1. Dormition says that Mary is assumed alive in heaven. The entire tradition states that Mary died (light falling asleep), was resurrected by Christ, then assumed body and soul into heaven, as alive as Christ was in his own Ascension.
2. If you read the Apostolic Constitution that dogmatizes the Assumption, it is very clear there in several paragraphs that the beliefs that goes into dogmatizing the Assumption does include the fact that Mary died. Its not true that the Western Church was silent whether Mary died or not. Read the entire Apostolic Constitution and its clear. Even Western saints were quoted speaking about Mary’s death and resurrection.

 

[ConstantineTG]

But you don’t really “fall asleep” (Dormition) when you are alive. Unless of course, Mary was sleeping when she was Assumed.

I think Gary had the mistaken notion that the Dormition meant that Mary’s dead body was assumed into heaven.