If the Virgin Mary died before she was assumed,how can she appear in different places at different times?

Question

The Roman Catholic feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was celebrated on August 15th,and,my parents,who are devout Catholics,went to the local Catholic church on that date for a mass in honor of this feast because,in the Catholic church,it's a holy day of obligation.

I went on the dictionary part of Yahoo!Education and looked up the word assumption regarding this matter and this is one of the definitions:

Christianity - The taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven in body and soul after her death.

So,if she died,then how is it possible that she has made appearances in places like Lourdes,Guadalupe,Fatima,and
Medugorge?

And those are the known normal apparitions of her. Some of the more wild & offbeat ones have been under bridges,on the sides of buildings,and even on bread!

Answer 1

No where in the bible does it say about:
The taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven in body and soul after her death.
only Jesus ascended to God like that, that is equaling Mary with Jesus.
please ask them to provide you with scriptures. and think on this:
if it's not in the bible, then it man made not God made

Answer 2

Far too much is assumed about the Virgin Mary! Why doesn't she hire a good agent to announce her forthcoming appearances? This would add to the body of believers. Also, by charging for seats, TV rights, gossip mag rights etc a great deal of money could be raised to be passed on to the poor and needy.

Answer 3

Well, they got it almost right. Catholics believe that the Holy Mother was assumed into Heaven and did not suffer the pains of death because she was free from original sin. She did not die but was brought up to Heaven. This was a wonderful feast day! God bless.

Answer 4

Whether Mary ever physically died or not is irrelevant, because God has already demonstrated his abilty to resurrect whomsoever he chooses, whenever he chooses.

God is the God of the living and not the dead.

As for all the various Marian apparitions .... only a dozen or so have been declared authentic by the church, and no one is personally required to accept them on faith.

Such matters have always been considered "private revelations" that are not part of the dogma of the church.

The Assumption however, as well as Mary's Immculate Conception, IS dogma.

The church explains it this way (in part):

38. All these proofs and considerations of the holy Fathers and the theologians are based upon the Sacred Writings as their ultimate foundation. These set the loving Mother of God as it were before our very eyes as most intimately joined to her divine Son and as always sharing his lot. Consequently it seems impossible to think of her, the one who conceived Christ, brought him forth, nursed him with her milk, held him in her arms, and clasped him to her breast, as being apart from him in body, even though not in soul, after this earthly life. Since our Redeemer is the Son of Mary, he could not do otherwise, as the perfect observer of God's law, than to honor, not only his eternal Father, but also his most beloved Mother. And, since it was within his power to grant her this great honor, to preserve her from the corruption of the tomb, we must believe that he really acted in this way.
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.

Answer 5

It's similar to the way Santa delivers all of those presents, all over the World on Christmas night.

Answer 6

It's magic - as always