Did Mary resurrect?

[Alma]

Someone asked me if Mary was judged by God when she went to Heaven. I said she was not, because she never commited sin.
Then that person posed this question:
We know that when we die our souls go to Heaven and our bodies corrupt, while we await our resurrection, but since Mary want to Heaven in body and soul, is this considered a resurrection? was she the first to resurrect after Christ? Does she have a resurrected glorified body same as Christ?

I was going to say yes, but I wanted to check with you guys first.

I’d appreciate your insights on this subject.

Thank you!



Alma

 

[Lorik]

I was taught Mary died and was resurrected by God after 3 days(there is some beautiful Eastern Orthodox art that depicts this). Then she was brought glorified body and soul to heaven by the angels and crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth.

 

[Psalm45_9]

Alma:

Someone asked me if Mary was judged by God when she went to Heaven. I said she was not, because she never commited sin.
Then that person posed this question:
We know that when we die our souls go to Heaven and our bodies corrupt, while we await our resurrection, but since Mary want to Heaven in body and soul, is this considered a resurrection? was she the first to resurrect after Christ? Does she have a resurrected glorified body same as Christ?

I was going to say yes, but I wanted to check with you guys first.

I’d appreciate your insights on this subject.

Thank you!



Alma

The tradition of the Eastern Rites of the Church is that Mary fell asleep. August 15th in their rites is called The Dormition of the Mother of God. The tradition is that she “died” was burried, was raised by Christ, and then was assumed into Heaven. You are free to believe if she was resurrected or not. What all Catholics are required to believe is that Mary was bodily assumed into Heaven at the end of her Earthly life. In the icons of the Dormition you will notice that Christ is holding Mary’s Soul. (it looks like a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths.)

comeandseeicons.com/cst06.htm

 

[JimG]

Mary did not resurrect. She was assumed into heaven by the power of God.

Resurrection, as applied to Jesus, means that He took back his life by his own power, which is indeed the power of God, since Jesus is God.

A common view is that Mary’s body, after death, was assumed into heaven, where it rejoined her soul.

 

[Sherlock]

JimG:

Mary did not resurrect. She was assumed into heaven by the power of God.

Resurrection, as applied to Jesus, means that He took back his life by his own power, which is indeed the power of God, since Jesus is God.

A common view is that Mary’s body, after death, was assumed into heaven, where it rejoined her soul.

Thanks, Jim, for making that distinction. Jesus ascended to heaven by His own power; Mary was assumed.

 

[Wisdom]

Mary is closer to Enoch and Elijah and Moses in that they were all assumed into heaven per tradition but none resurrected by their own power.

 

[JSmitty2005]

I think there are some other saints like St. Catherine of Alexandria whose bodies were whisked off into Heaven by angels, but of course, the Church hasn’t taken any official positions on them, although it is tradition.

 

[Timidity]

JimG:

Resurrection, as applied to Jesus, means that He took back his life by his own power, which is indeed the power of God, since Jesus is God.

But won’t all those in Heaven be resurrected (i.e, the General Resurrection)?

“We look for the resurrection of the body…”

 

[marysson]

Since death is a result of Original Sin, and she was the Immaculate Conception, I’d tend to argue that she never died at all, but was assumed at the end of her life.

 

[JimG]

Timidity:

But won’t all those in Heaven be resurrected (i.e, the General Resurrection)?

“We look for the resurrection of the body…”

Yes, but it will be through God’s power, not ours, which differentiates it from the resurrection of Jesus.

 

[Will_Pick]

JimG:

Mary did not resurrect. She was assumed into heaven by the power of God.

Resurrection, as applied to Jesus, means that He took back his life by his own power, which is indeed the power of God, since Jesus is God.

A common view is that Mary’s body, after death, was assumed into heaven, where it rejoined her soul.

AMEN

 

[Alma]

JimG:

Mary did not resurrect. She was assumed into heaven by the power of God.

Resurrection, as applied to Jesus, means that He took back his life by his own power, which is indeed the power of God, since Jesus is God.

A common view is that Mary’s body, after death, was assumed into heaven, where it rejoined her soul.

Is it right to say, then, that Mary ‘was resurrected’ by God? that since she is now in Heaven in body and soul she is the first human being that has been resurrected by God?


Alma

 

[Sherlock]

Alma:

Is it right to say, then, that Mary ‘was resurrected’ by God? that since she is now in Heaven in body and soul she is the first human being that has been resurrected by God?


Alma

Well, not exactly. Jesus was fully human as well as fully divine, and thus I would have to say that Jesus was first.

 

[MonkeyTape]

marysson:

Since death is a result of Original Sin, and she was the Immaculate Conception, I’d tend to argue that she never died at all, but was assumed at the end of her life.

But death the result of sin in general, Mary was preserved from sin, though still a member of the human race. She was subject to death, as all of us are, God’s grace is what preserved her, but she was still human - though the finest example. I would just be careful about saying she was not subject to death through her sinless-ness.

The Church has never formally defined whether she died or not, and the integrity of the doctrine of the Assumption would not be impaired if she did not in fact die, but the almost universal consensus is that she did die. Pope Pius XII, in Munificentissimus Deus (1950), defined that Mary, “after the completion of her earthly life” (note the silence regarding her death), “was assumed body and soul into the glory of heaven.”

 

[Alma]

Sherlock:

Well, not exactly. Jesus was fully human as well as fully divine, and thus I would have to say that Jesus was first.

Well, of course, Jesus was first!
What I meant to ask is this: if Mary was resurrected by God, is it correct to affirm there are only two persons with resurrected bodies and souls in Heaven: Jesus who resurrrected by His own divine power, and Mary who was resurrected by God?



Alma

 

[Alma]

Hi! Anyone out there who can answer this last question?

Alma

 

[Wisdom]

Well I don’t think you can say that for sure because remember the transfiguration both Moses and Elijah appeared to the inner 3 apostles and both of these men by tradition were assumed by tradition so the apostles could have seen their resurrected bodies. There might be a small number of special friends who have a ressurected body in Heaven. Elisah is was also taken up into heaven by Jewish tradition.
And of course there are the incorruptibles which brings in a while new can of worms.

 

[Brian_Ingram]

marysson:

Since death is a result of Original Sin, and she was the Immaculate Conception, I’d tend to argue that she never died at all, but was assumed at the end of her life.

Physical death is an indirect result of Adam sin that is man was driven from the garden and deprived of the tree of life because of it. The death directly resulting from Adam and Eve sin was is spiritual death. Mary born into this world devoid of the tree of life was pre-destined to die

Pax

Brian

 

[patg]

Alma:

Well, of course, Jesus was first!

Actually no he wasn’t, not according to Matthew. A fascinating peculiarity of Matthew’s gospel is that it tells of other resurrections in addition to Jesus’. According to Matthew, many righteous Jews were raised from the dead along with Jesus. At the very moment that Jesus died:

*"…the earth quaked, rocks were split apart, and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of sleeping saints came back to life. And they came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city, where they appeared to many. *(Matt 27:51-53)"

What I meant to ask is this: if Mary was resurrected by God, is it correct to affirm there are only two persons with resurrected bodies and souls in Heaven: Jesus who resurrrected by His own divine power, and Mary who was resurrected by God?

Wonder what happened to all the people Matthew talks about? Now this is probably a moot point since thre is so little reason to believe it actually happened BUT it is something to consider as part of this topic.