Who can correctly define the dogma of the "Assumption" ?
I'm just doing a little experiment here.
If you don't know the answer, I'll give you a link to the answer, but NO CHEATING. If you go to the link, you can't answer the question. Play fair. Here's the link: http://www.catholic.com/library/Immaculate_Conception_and_Assum.asp
2007-10-01 08:28:09 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Isn't it the teaching that Mary was assumed into heaven before she experienced bodily death?
Not to be confused with the ascension, which was Jesus's rising into heaven after he rose from the dead.
Am I right? Am I right?
2007-10-01 12:03:48 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First it must be said that Mary did not ascend into heaven (as if by her own power). Only Jesus did that. It simply means that Mary, as the "prototype" Christian received in advance what we shall all receive eventually in the resurrection. (If I were a dispensationalist, I might say she was "raptured" early.) It follows as a consequence if Mary were freed (by a special act of God’s grace) from sin. And since she carried the incarnate Word in her womb, it is fitting that God should preserve her body from decay as He preserved Enoch (Genesis 5:24) and Elijah (2 Kings 2) (Scripture hints that Moses may have been assumed also [Jude 9 and Deuteronomy 34:6].) even though they were not freed from sin as was Mary. You will not find in Scripture a description of the Trinity in the form in which it was given at Niceae. It was drawn from inference by the Church from several Scriptural passages and the lived faith of the Church. Mary’s assumption, likewise, is drawn by inference from what the other truths about Mary implicate from Scripture and the lived faith of the Church. There are examples from the writings of the church fathers dating from the fifth and sixth centuries that speak of standing traditions about the assumption. (Gregory of Tours, Eight Books of Miracles, 575 A.D.) and ( St. John Damascene, Second Homily on the Dormition of Mary, 725 A.D.).
2007-10-01 10:26:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't read the link or any of the answers. The Assumption is when Mary the Virgin Mother was "assumed" into heaven. Mary was carried into heaven by angels. Jesus ascended into heaven on His own power since He is the Son of God who had risen from the dead.
2007-10-02 05:41:08 · answer #3 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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 C.E. 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.
http://www.turktour.com/virgin_mary.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm
With love in Christ.
2007-10-01 19:01:43 · answer #4 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Dogma of the Assumption -- or the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos in the Orthodox Churches -- is that at the end of her earthly life, she either fell asleep or died BUT her body did not see corruption before it was taken up to Heaven.
Both Enoch and Elijah had been taken up to heaven at the end of their earthly life as well. See 2 Kings 2:11 -- "it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven".
"And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him". (GEN 5:24).
What happened to Mary will one day happen to all of us....we will rise in an undecayed state to be in Heaven with Jesus forever.
2007-10-01 08:42:34 · answer #5 · answered by The Carmelite 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Non Catholic here; Assumption is the doctrine that the body of the Virgin Mary was taken up into heaven.
2007-10-01 08:31:40 · answer #6 · answered by SC 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The assumption is Mary going up to heaven body and soul. It is celebrated as her heavenly birthday.
2007-10-01 08:38:33 · answer #7 · answered by ladybug 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Im not sure if Mary died a physical death as we will, but Mary was taken up to heaven body and soul, by Jesus
2007-10-01 09:29:47 · answer #8 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mama Mary was assumed to heaven after her death, body and soul, by her Son, her Savior, Jesus Christ who is one in being with the Father.
2007-10-01 08:42:31 · answer #9 · answered by coco_loco 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Mary was assumed into Heaven by the power of God, where she was crowned Queen of Heaven.
The Psalms prophecied and the Old Testament Kingdom foreshadowed the New Testament Kingdom, ruled by Christ, Son of the Living God, and earthly successor of King David by virtue of his having been born from the womb of Mary, the Gevirah. In all Kingdoms of Israel, the Queen Mother sat at the King's right hand; our Queen Mother is in Heaven now, just as St. John saw her.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Book Of Psalms
Psalm 44
10 The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.
11 Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house. 12 And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore. 13 And the daughters of Tyre with gifts, yea, all the rich among the people, shall entreat thy countenance. 14 All the glory of the king's daughter is within in golden borders, 15 Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.
16 They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be brought into the temple of the king. 17 Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the earth.
St. John saw a woman, in Heaven. This woman is the woman who gave birth to the "man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron." That child was Jesus. The woman who is the mother of Jesus is crowned -- with 12 stars, a symbol of the tribes of Israel and the 12 Apostles of Israel. The crown shows clearly that she is a Queen.
The Catholic Church is the restoration of the Davidic Kingdom.
Christ is the King, His Mother is the Queen, and we are their subjects.
2007-10-01 10:35:24 · answer #10 · answered by cashelmara 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋