Some Questions that have Come Up from my Rosary Meditations

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  1. Where do Catholics get the information about our Blessed Mother’s Assumption & Coronation that we meditate on while praying the Glorious Mysteries of the Holy Rosary?
  2. Related to #1… why was there a tomb of the Blessed Mother (where fragrant lilies were found) if she was taken-up body and soul into Heaven?
  3. When the women were going to Jesus’ tomb to anoint his body on what became Easter Sunday, how were they planning to get into the sealed tomb? Why would they be going at that point?
    Thanks for any help with these!
 
http://www.vatican.va/content/john-...ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae.html
http://www.catholictradition.org/Classics/secret-rosary.htm
2. It is part of tradition of Church according to some saints and fathers, they say that Mary fall into sleep and then Assumption to Heaven happened. Redirect Notice
It is not official Church’s teaching, look on this: http://www.vatican.va/content/pius-...-xii_apc_19501101_munificentissimus-deus.html
And this can be helpful: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm
3.The stone could be moved the same as it was put on tomb, with few strong men.
Soldiers were keeping the tomb because Jews remembered that Jesus said He will rise from the dead on third day so they were afraid apostles will steal the body and deceive everyone or that maybe Jesus didn’t even die so he could go out from tomb if there was nobody. They (jews) were afraid because they have done wrong: they have condemned and killed the righteous. And that is why their consciences were upset.
It was tradition to go to tomb after someones death and maybe women didn’t know that there were soldiers but when they came there the tomb was open and soldiers were numb blinded.
I hope it helps a bit.
 
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Mary’s Coronation can be found in Revelations 12, if you require Biblical proof.
 
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  1. Where do Catholics get the information about our Blessed Mother’s Assumption & Coronation that we meditate on while praying the Glorious Mysteries of the Holy Rosary?
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The Assumption and Coronation of Mary (“exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things”) are covered in the Catechism in CCC 966, available here. Sources for the Church teaching are in the footnotes 508 and 509 to the Catechism section.
[966] "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death."508 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son’s Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians:

In giving birth you kept your virginity; in your Dormition you did not leave the world, O Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death.509
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  1. Related to #1… why was there a tomb of the Blessed Mother (where fragrant lilies were found) if she was taken-up body and soul into Heaven?
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It is possible that she died and was placed in the tomb, or was in the process of being placed in the tomb, when she was assumed. It is also possible that she was assumed prior to death. Theologians vary on which position they take. The Vatican does not take an official position, but simply says “when the course of her earthly life was finished, [Mary] was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory” and that’s all that Catholics are required to believe. We are free to believe that she experienced earthly death just before being assumed, or that she did not die before being assumed.
  1. When the women were going to Jesus’ tomb to anoint his body on what became Easter Sunday, how were they planning to get into the sealed tomb? Why would they be going at that point?
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They would likely have gotten a man or men, perhaps the groundskeepers (Mary Magdalene mistook Jesus for the “gardener” aka groundskeeper, so we know such people existed), to open the tomb for them upon arrival. They needed to anoint Jesus’ body in the traditional way. They were unable to do this on the Friday when he died because the Jewish Sabbath started at sundown and, being observant Jews, they were not allowed to do this during the Sabbath, so they did not have time.
 
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