What is meant by the Catholic Assumption?

Answer 1

According to Catholic doctrine and the traditions of the Catholic Church, the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mary, the mother of Jesus) "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory."[1] This means that Mary was transported into Heaven with her body and soul united. The feast day recognizing Mary's passage into Heaven is celebrated as The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Roman Catholics. This doctrine was dogmatically and infallibly defined by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950 in his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus.

Answer 2

The Assumption of Mary (or the Assumption of the Virgin) is a doctrine which teaches that after the mother of Jesus died, she was resurrected, glorified, and taken bodily to heaven. The word assumption is taken from a Latin word meaning “to take up.” The Assumption of Mary is taught by the Roman Catholic Church and, to a lesser degree, the Eastern Orthodox Church.



The doctrine of the Assumption of Mary had its beginnings in the Byzantine Empire around the 6th Century. An annual feast honoring Mary gradually grew into a commemoration of Mary’s death called the Feast of Dormition (“falling asleep”). As the practice spread to the West, an emphasis was placed on Mary’s resurrection, and the glorification of Mary’s body as well as her soul, and the name of the feast was thereby changed to the Assumption. It is still observed on August 15, as it was in the Middle Ages. The Assumption of Mary was made an official dogma of the Roman Catholic Church in 1950 by Pope Pius XII.

Answer 3

The Assumption (that Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven) is a doctrine that was dogmatically and infallibly defined by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950 in his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus.

However, before such a dogmatically defined teaching can be applied, it is thoroughly investigated by the Church. This teaching is based on a Tradition that dates back to the early Church, outlined in some documents from that period. For example in genuine writings in the East, it is mentioned in the sermons of St. Andrew of Crete, St. John Damascene, St. Modestus of Jerusalem and others. In the West, St. Gregory of Tours (De gloria mart., I, iv) mentions it first. The Assumption is also part of Apostolic Tradition, which pre-dates the canon of the New Testament and actually forms its basis.

Answer 4

The doctrine of Assumption claims that Mary the Virgin Mother was assumed body and soul into heaven.

The person above me is right it is 1 of only 2 things EVER declared infallibly by any Pope. For all non Catholics try to say we are slavish because of infallibilty only this doctrine and the doctrine of the immaculate conception have ever been declared infallibly


Edit:
Pastor Art again you are wrong, it was declared doctrine by Pius XII BUT the feast of the Assumption was celebrated as far back as the 5th century in Syria.

You really don;t know anything about religion, history, the bible, or much of anything do you?
WHO ordained you?
What was the divinity school or seminary you attended?
What episcopal conference licenses you?
Because I have yet to see you get an answer correct.

Answer 5

39. We must remember especially that, since the second century, the Virgin Mary has been designated by the holy Fathers as the new Eve, who, although subject to the new Adam, is most intimately associated with him in that struggle against the infernal foe which, as foretold in the protoevangelium,[44] would finally result in that most complete victory over the sin and death which are always mentioned together in the writings of the Apostle of the Gentiles.[45] Consequently, just as the glorious resurrection of Christ was an essential part and the final sign of this victory, so that struggle which was common to the Blessed Virgin and her divine Son should be brought to a close by the glorification of her virginal body, for the same Apostle says: "When this mortal thing hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory."[46]
40. Hence the revered Mother of God, from all eternity joined in a hidden way with Jesus Christ in one and the same decree of predestination,[47] immaculate in her conception, a most perfect virgin in her divine motherhood, the noble associate of the divine Redeemer who has won a complete triumph over sin and its consequences, finally obtained, as the supreme culmination of her privileges, that she should be preserved free from the corruption of the tomb and that, like her own Son, having overcome death, she might be taken up body and soul to the glory of heaven where, as Queen, she sits in splendor at the right hand of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages.[48]
41. Since the universal Church, within which dwells the Spirit of Truth who infallibly directs it toward an ever more perfect knowledge of the revealed truths, has expressed its own belief many times over the course of the centuries, and since the bishops of the entire world are almost unanimously petitioning that the truth of the bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven should be defined as a dogma of divine and Catholic faith-this truth which is based on the Sacred Writings, which is thoroughly rooted in the minds of the faithful, which has been approved in ecclesiastical worship from the most remote times, which is completely in harmony with the other revealed truths, and which has been expounded and explained magnificently in the work, the science, and the wisdom of the theologians-we believe that the moment appointed in the plan of divine providence for the solemn proclamation of this outstanding privilege of the Virgin Mary has already arrived.

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http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P12MUNIF.HTM

Answer 6

There is no Catholic Assumption.

Catholics believe in the assumption of the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven after her death.

John 19:26-27 states:

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple (John) took her into his home.

The minutes of the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D. indicate that four or six years after the death and resurrection of Jesus, John and the Virgin Mary came together to Ephesus, and for a short time stayed in the building, a section of which is now under Church of the Virgin Mary today.

Later John moved the Virgin Mary to a house he had prepared for her on Bulbul Dagi (Bulbul Hill). She lived there until the end of her earthly life.

St. John of Damascus (P. G., I, 96) later wrote:

St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon (451), made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who wished to possess the body of the Mother of God, that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened, upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven.

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

The Catholic doctrine of the Assumption is the teaching that Mary, the mother of Jesus, at the end of her earthly life, was assumed into heaven body and soul. Her body did not remain in the grave or undergo corruption. She also did not ascend into heaven by her own power as Jesus did, but was assumed, that is taken up by the power of God. The doctrine does not state whether Mary died before she was assumed or not, as this has not been revealed by God. This teaching, taught by the Christian Church since Apostolic times, was formally defined as dogma in 1950 by Pope Pius XII.

Answer 8

Mary experienced at the end of her life, what we all will experience at the end of time. The re-uniting of our soul and body for eternity either in Heaven, like Mary or in Hell.

Answer 9

I think it was the assumption that if they killed enough non-catholics with inquisitions, "witch" burnings, crusades, and the like, the only people left alive would be catholics.

Answer 10

I am not a Catholic.

However the Roman Catholic Teaching is that Mary, the mother of Jesus was Assummed into heaven and that she never physically died.

This teaching was invented in 1950 by Pius 12th.

So its a fairly recent doctrine.

Hebrews 9:27 contradicts it.

Pastor Art