Where is Mother Mary, physically?

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Why the focus on bodily assumption if no prominent teaching on Mother Mary’s physical whereabouts? If she went to another (non-physical) realm, why the focus on her physical body? And Jesus’ for that matter?
 
Well, the physicality shows us a glimpse of the hope to come in the Resurrection.

To be the whole person, we are body and soul, and not just soul alone.
 
We don’t know where heaven is, but you can’t get there from here in any natural physical way.
 
She has a resurrected body, not a physical body.

And even the Apostles were not particularly articulate in explaining what that meant; the best they gave us were their observations; but it is fairly clear that a resurrected body is not the same.

Read the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe; it was not as if she appeared in a vision, but appeared bodily, rearranging the roses in Juan Diego’s tilma.

Christ, too, appeared physically and seems to have had the ability to bi locate - in the Upper Room at the same time as on the way to Emmaus; he passed through locked doors, etc.

As Pope John Paul 2 said, heaven is not a place; it is a state of being. So no intelligible answer can be given to the question “physically”.
 
Mother Mary’s physical location is Heaven. We don’t know where that is in relation to Earth but it’s real and that’s where she is. What more detail do you expect?

And Heaven is not a ‘non-physical’ realm. It’s both a state and a place.
 
We focus on Mary’s assumption because our only hope is that we, through the mercy of God, are also assumed into heaven. Those living before the end times will go in spirit. At the resurrection, we will be re-united with our then-glorified bodies.

There is enough here to ponder for a lifetime.
 
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She bodily ascended into heaven.

Which is where she is now,
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Minor nit-pick: She was bodily assumed into heaven by the power of God. So it is called “the Assumption of Mary”.

She did not “ascend” because only Jesus can do that (at “The Ascension”). The word “Ascend” suggests he went into Heaven via his own power, which, being God, he could do.
Mary could not go to Heaven by her own power; God took her there, body and soul.
 
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In heaven. She was assumed body and soul. Just as Christ has his glorified body in heaven. We have reason to believe that Elijah was assumed body and soul, perhaps Moses as well.

Heaven is very much a physical place. We are body and soul. Those who die in the Lord await the resurrection of their earthly bodies.
 
Remember Elijah being taken up in a chariot of fire?
And in the story of the Rich man and Lazarus and
the angels bearing up Lazarus to heaven? Luke 16:22
and several other references to ppl being “taken up”
to Heaven and to God. Yes, Jesus is the only One
who “Ascended” to heaven and sits at the Right Hand
of the Throne of God!!
 
I take back my last comment. As a big fan of Toto’s Africa video I am in no place to cast stones.
 
Mother Mary is in a SAFE place where satan cannot
get at Her!! See Rev. 12:6
 
GLam1761 said:
Mother Mary is in a SAFE place where satan cannot
get at Her!! See Rev. 12:6
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But she can get at him, and according to some accounts she frequently does mess with him.

“Hail Mary, full of Grace, punch the devil in the face.”
 
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