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Mary's Death and Bodily Assumption This article covers the meaning of the dogma of the Assumption, the Assumptionistic Movement, the Magisterial Teaching and belief of the Fathers of the...
All testify to a feast celebrated to honor Mary’s death and her assumption. A Gallic liturgy of the mid-sixth century is the first evidence of the celebration of the Assumption in the Western Church. This feast, held on Jan. 18, was called in a seventh-century Sacramentary the “Feast of Mary’s Assumption.”.
At her death, Mary, the mother of Jesus, was assumed body and soul into heaven. This could happen, did happen, and indeed, had to happen because Jesus himself is risen from the dead in his human body.
The traditional teaching of the Church, found in the liturgies of East and West, is that Our Lady died before being resurrected and gloriously assumed body and soul into heaven.
Some Catholics believe that Mary died before being assumed, but they believe that she was miraculously resurrected before being assumed (mortalistic interpretation). Others believe she was assumed bodily into Heaven without first dying (immortalistic interpretation).
21 lip 2011 · Roman Catholics believe the doctrine of the Assumption, which teaches that at the end of her life, Mary, the mother of Christ, was taken body and soul (i.e. both physically and spiritually)...
