Assumption?

[Canuck000]

This is very likely a very stupid question but I feel that I have to ask. What is the Assumption, that was discussed very briefly at Mass this morning? I’ll be attending my 2nd RCIA class this Tues., and could ask there, but I’d really like to know before that. I googled it and found that it’s celebrated Aug. 15th and is regarding The assumption of Mary. I’m not so sure I understand. Thanks in advance for any answers as I know you guys are a fantastic resource.

 

[catholicanne]

Mary did not die like how you and I will die. God called her to heaven, body and all. Her assumption celebrates her assent into Heaven. Hope this helps.

 

[Dorothy]

Due to the privilege of her Immaculate Conception (sinless from the first moment of her conception), Our Blessed Mother was taken body and soul into heaven at the end of her earthly life. It wasn’t fitting that her body should be left on the earth to decay.

It is not certain if she died (just like briefly falling asleep, and then being assumed into heaven) or if she was assumed into heaven without dying.

Popular opinion leans towards the thought that she would have wanted to die first because her Son died.

In any case, she is with the Trinity in her glorified physical body, where we hope to be someday!

 

[ConstantineTG]

The Church believed she died for centuries. It is only in the last 100 years where this thing about not dying came up. She died and then was resurrected by Christ and then taken up body and soul into heaven.

 

[RedDuke50]

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is about how Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was lifted by God into Heaven. She went into Heaven with her body and her soul.

It is to my understanding that we do not know fully if she died before and then was brought into Heaven or if she was simply carried up. I did read in my family prayer book on the Rosary mysteries that the Apostles found fragrant lillies in her grave, so maybe she did die. But it also says that she did not die of bodily infirmity, but was taken to Heaven in a rapture of Divine love. So I don’t know…
(You may also learn at some time of the Ascension. That is when Jesus lifted Himself into Heaven. It is different than Assumption because Christ was able to lift Himself while Mary, being only human and not God, had to be carried into Heaven. In case you didn’t know.)

 

[Tampa_Dave]

The Roman Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary “having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” This doctrine was dogmatically and infallibly defined by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950, in his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus. [Courtesy of Wikipedia]

Please note that the Feast of the Assumption is a Catholic Holy Day of Obligation.

 

[ConstantineTG]

The Apostles were actually unaware that Mary was resurrected and assumed into heaven until St. Thomas, who came late to the burial, asked that her tomb be opened for him to venerate her body. And that is when he found the tomb empty. Then he received the vision of the Assumption which was actually in progress and Mary dropped her girdle to Thomas to take to the other Apostles as proof of the event.

This relic is still kept by the Orthodox to this day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincture_of_the_Theotokos

nytimes.com/2011/11/24/world/europe/virgin-mary-belt-relic-draws-crowds-in-moscow.html

 

[ByzCathCantor]

The Roman Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary “having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” This doctrine was dogmatically and infallibly defined by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950, in his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus.

The Catholic Church teaches this as dogma.

The Roman Catholic Church celebrates this feast as the Assumption, emphasizing the end result; that is, the glorification in heaven, body and soul.

The Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast as the Dormition, or falling asleep, which implicitly acknowledges that she did not die in the classic sense, as her body was not subject to corruption. We also rejoice in that she was assumed, body and soul, and glorified as Queen of Heaven.

 

[Canuck000]

The Apostles were actually unaware that Mary was resurrected and assumed into heaven until St. Thomas, who came late to the burial, asked that her tomb be opened for him to venerate her body. And that is when he found the tomb empty. Then he received the vision of the Assumption which was actually in progress and Mary dropped her girdle to Thomas to take to the other Apostles as proof of the event.

This relic is still kept by the Orthodox to this day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincture_of_the_Theotokos

nytimes.com/2011/11/24/world/europe/virgin-mary-belt-relic-draws-crowds-in-moscow.html

Does this mean that she did die? If she was in a tomb? Very interesting links, thank you.
Reading further on this now, and thanks to all. I knew I could get good info from all of you. I’m learning so much as I I have been doing much reading while in inquiry classes.

 

[Canuck000]

The Catholic Church teaches this as dogma.

The Roman Catholic Church celebrates this feast as the Assumption, emphasizing the end result; that is, the glorification in heaven, body and soul.

The Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast as the Dormition, or falling asleep, which implicitly acknowledges that she did not die in the classic sense, as her body was not subject to corruption. We also rejoice in that she was assumed, body and soul, and glorified as Queen of Heaven.

Thank you for providing this statement like this. It’s starting to make sense now, and I remember hearing this before.

 

[Tantum_ergo]

The Apostles were actually unaware that Mary was resurrected and assumed into heaven until St. Thomas, who came late to the burial, asked that her tomb be opened for him to venerate her body. And that is when he found the tomb empty. Then he received the vision of the Assumption which was actually in progress and Mary dropped her girdle to Thomas to take to the other Apostles as proof of the event.

This relic is still kept by the Orthodox to this day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincture_of_the_Theotokos

nytimes.com/2011/11/24/world/europe/virgin-mary-belt-relic-draws-crowds-in-moscow.html

Hon, you really should stop using Wiki and Hell’s Bible as sources.

 

[JaredR]

The Assumption is the name for the fact that Mary was taken (assumed) body and soul into Heaven at the end of her earthly life. The likely fact that she had a tomb suggests that she died, and then sometime after being buried she was resurrected in a new immortal body and taken up into glory.