Assumption and coronation

[Eruvande]

What are the marian dogmas one has to believe if one wants to be a catholic - I seem to recall that it’s the assumption and the coronation of Mary, Queen of Heaven. Not sure where I’m getting that from - the rosary maybe, which I try and pray often. I have trouble with those mysteries so often skip them because I just don’t understand. I’m a bit confizzled -have I mixed some different ideas up?

 

[MartyrForJesus]

Someone more knowledgeable will give a better answer, but here is a website that gives you Scripture to meditate on during the Rosary, to help you understand:

ainglkiss.com/ros/sr.htm

Pick the mystery and it will have a verse or two per Hail Mary.

 

[1ke]

What are the marian dogmas one has to believe if one wants to be a catholic - I seem to recall that it’s the assumption and the coronation of Mary, Queen of Heaven. Not sure where I’m getting that from - the rosary maybe, which I try and pray often. I have trouble with those mysteries so often skip them because I just don’t understand. I’m a bit confizzled -have I mixed some different ideas up?

There are four Marian dogmas:
Immaculate Conception
Perpetual Virginity
Assumption
Divine Motherhood

catholicnewsagency.com/resource.php?n=424

 

[pablope]

What are the marian dogmas one has to believe if one wants to be a catholic - I seem to recall that it’s the assumption and the coronation of Mary, Queen of Heaven. Not sure where I’m getting that from - the rosary maybe, which I try and pray often. I have trouble with those mysteries so often skip them because I just don’t understand. I’m a bit confizzled -have I mixed some different ideas up?

Here is a book recommendation: Hail Holy Queen by Scott Hahn.

 

[Eruvande]

Thanks for the links, and I’ll put the book on the list to read

 

[Gabriel_of_12]

It is not binding to have a devotion to the blessed Virgin Mary, but the four Marian doctrines are a matter of Catholic faith to be in good standing.

The Rosary is a devotional prayer that prays the mysteries of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To pray the Rosary is to pray the gospels. The complete mysteries of the Rosary fulfill the law and the prophets mystically.

 

[Alfonsus]

Don’t worry if you don’t understand or if you don’t find it meaningful at the moment. Just pray it on. You know, I too have some difficulties understanding one particular mystery of the Rosary, that is the “Finding in the Temple.”
I’m the type of understanding the mysteries trough biblical typology, instead of imagining the scene.
Just recently I started meditate in a very particular thing of this mystery, it was just flashed in my mind, that is Jesus question, “Why did you looking for me?” Just that sentence. That means a lot for me, although I still not get the depth of that particular mysteries.

Regarding the coronation and assumption, I find it very meaningful when contemplating the truth regarding resurrection of the body. Sure, Jesus was resurrected. We still wait for our turn. But in the Church believe regarding Mary (and perhaps also Enoch and Elijah), I find consolation that the promise is already accomplished in Mary.

Thinking that Mary is the perfect type of the Church, the perfect disciple, in a sense we are already experience the Church resurrection and assumption. For what? For that glorious wedding feast of the Lamb. Where we will received our crown of glory.

Well, I’m not telling you what you need to meditate. But just sharing some insight I found meditating the mysteries. Mary’s glorification always reminds me about the Church final end.

 

[fbl9]

What are the marian dogmas one has to believe if one wants to be a catholic - I seem to recall that it’s the assumption and the coronation of Mary, Queen of Heaven. Not sure where I’m getting that from - the rosary maybe, which I try and pray often. I have trouble with those mysteries so often skip them because I just don’t understand. I’m a bit confizzled -have I mixed some different ideas up?

The coronation of Mary is based on : Jesus being of the line of David made Mary Queen of heaven just as David made his mother queen.
The assumption is an ancient beleif of the Church.

 

[GaryTaylor]

Really all comes back to the Incarnation. God could have chose to appear to man in anyway that he so desired. The point really is he chose Mary, to bear the Full Grace of the Divine as the Mother of God. An idea which btw lucifer didn’t agree with at all. So when the church states all Grace flows through Mary. all Grace already flowed through Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit/Trinity, so this wouldn’t change in reverse. The Grace orginates from God as He wills, to whom He wills, and when He wills. And He willed that all Grace flow through the Blessed Virgin Mary. She interceeds for all those who seek her protection. The question often arrives in than does all Grace have to come through Our Lady. The Lord is the source of all Grace, so He can do as He so please’s.

At this point since Mary has no sin nor could have, she is a Saint and automatically in Heaven. The question of Her assumed bodily into heaven is ex-cathedra, infallible.

Yes Christ is King, this automatically makes His Mother Queen. And I am sure He would have it no other way.

So yes Our Lady sits at the right hand of Christ King. The Coronation is Biblical also.

Do all Christians call her “Blessed”?

 

[Eruvande]

Thanks for your replies - lots to think on. I guess I’m one of the few protestants who doesn’t have a problem with Mary! I totally get the perfect Christian model thing - I just get mildly confused about some of the details.

 

[DebChris]

Thanks for your replies - lots to think on. I guess I’m one of the few protestants who doesn’t have a problem with Mary! I totally get the perfect Christian model thing - I just get mildly confused about some of the details.

I read an article in Time magazine a few years back about how many non-Catholics were picking up the rosary at a time when many Catholics had chosen not pray this most powerful of all intercessory prayers.
Others have mentioned the scriptural rosary. Pope John Paul II recommended meditating on a pertinent scriptural verse before each decade.
During catechist training I learned to add a single word, or short phrase after the name of Jesus in the Hail Mary to help with meditation and maintaining focus on Christ.
With the Assumption, the phrase I use is “raising us up.” As Mary was assumed into heaven so shall each of us who remains faithful be raised from the dead to enjoy the beatific vision. For the Coronation, I pray “…and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus, Prince of Peace.”
The rosary is considered a private devotion. It is also liturgical when we meditate on the mysteries which summarize the New Testament.