2007-10-12 10:06:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Which Pope and Which MARY R U Talking about ?
2007-10-12 12:55:53 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply by the fact that your very statement includes no specific dates and a reference to a pope with no name shows you picked up this rumor over time. Catholics do not believe Mary ascended to heaven like Jesus, but that after death her body was taken so she could be in heaven in body and spirit. This is supported by the early church since Mary is one of the few central figures of Christ's life that the early Christians did not search for her body.
2007-10-15 10:38:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but you've been misled about this. Please interrogate the information you have received, and thereby overcome your unintentional prejudice - since you are clearly interested in the truth, a very good thing. And the truth is that Christians have affirmed the "Assumption" (which means 'carried up') since the earliest days of Christianity, dating from the apostles and the ones they taught after them. Reading the Church Fathers will tell you so. In this way, she is a figure for all who will follow in this way, as described in I Thess 4:17 (this is one reason why Catholic Christians call her an 'icon' or 'picture' of the church). As a former evangelical, I understand why this is all hard to accept. I once thought that all this Catholic talk about Mary was sadly misguided. But it is a devotion that, in an ironic sense, leads one closer to Jesus, her son and God's Son. So please put aside the virtriolic teaching you have received and decide to examine for yourself the real history of the Church. You'll discover - with a sense of wonder - that the 'woman clothed with the sun and crowned with 12 stars' in Revelation 12 is Jesus' Mom, taken up to be with Him and crowned, as we will be. She was just taken earlier than us. Hey, it's what a good Son would do for the Mom He loves.
2007-10-12 11:33:50 · answer #3 · answered by Johnny Dangerous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics have believed that the Blessed Virgin Mary has been in heaven since her death.
Catholics have also believed in the assumption of the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven after her death for about 1,500 years.
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.
2007-10-14 14:17:45 · answer #4 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he didn't make it up. He did have the doctrine made official, but he didn't make it up. People have believed that Mary went to heaven ("The Assumption") ever since the first century, because the apostles who attended her on her death-bed witnessed it and made it know.
Check out the history of Christianity and the writings of early Christians, and you will see.
2007-10-12 10:30:55 · answer #5 · answered by sparki777 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It has been debated for centuries. It wasn't made up. It was ratified in the 1950's. You only told have of the story.
2007-10-12 10:12:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Wrong. It was simply formally defined at that time.
Transitus Mariae (Passage of Mary) Look it up
2007-10-12 10:14:29 · answer #7 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
No that came from Catholic myths of the 4th and 5th century.
2007-10-12 11:15:11 · answer #8 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is wrong, the Pope did not make up that story, it is real
2007-10-12 10:09:56 · answer #9 · answered by TigerLily 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Where is your proof of this statement? You can't make a statement like that without proof and expect people to believe you.
2007-10-12 10:10:34 · answer #10 · answered by Citrine Dream 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋