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[The morning of August 9 ^th, 1821:] I came into Mary's house, some three hours' journey from Ephesus. I saw her lying on a low, very narrow couch in her little sleeping-alcove all hung with white, in the room behind and to the right of the hearth-place.
Her very body became inconceivably sacred as the caro deifera, the living tabernacle of the Word, Who took flesh of her flesh and made her womb the paradise of the Second Adam. In this revealed ...
15 sie 2020 · The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was already being celebrated on 15 August in the 5th century. It bore the sense of Our Lady’s “Birth into heaven”, or in the Byzantine tradition, her “Dormition”. The feast began to celebrated in Rome in the middle of the 7th century.
Although her later life is not accounted in the Bible, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and some Protestant traditions believe that her body was raised into heaven at the end of her earthly life, which is known in Western Christianity as the Assumption of Mary and in Eastern Christianity as the Dormition of the Mother of God.
9 sie 2024 · According to Orthodox tradition, Mary then died, or “fell asleep” (hence the term “dormition”), before she was assumed, body and soul, into heaven. In Catholic dogma, the Assumption is somewhat more narrow, being focused primarily on what happened after her death.
5 dni temu · On Aug. 15, Catholics around the world mark the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, commemorating the end of her earthly life and assumption into Heaven. But while the feast day is a relatively new one, the history of the holiday — and the mystery behind it — has its roots in the earliest centuries of Christian belief.
9 sie 1998 · Father Raymond J. de Souza News August 9, 1998. The Church considers death both a punishment for sin and the means of redemption. Why is it silent about whether the Mother of God died before...
