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Assumption of Mary (view source)
Revision as of 13:39, September 25, 2019
, 13:39, September 25, 2019New Section See also - added paragraph and ref note re the Mysteries of the Rosary, the Assumption being the Fourth Glorious Mystery, preceding the Coronation - added to See also Orthodox Mysteries Mysticism
The Assumption of Mary is also a teaching in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] (Called the "Dormition" in that Church) and several other churches, but it is not part of those denominations' dogma.
The Assumption of Mary is also a teaching in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] (Called the "Dormition" in that Church) and several other churches, but it is not part of those denominations' dogma.
One of the Mysteries of the Rosary is a [[meditation]] on ''The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary'', the Fourteenth Mystery of the Fifteen Decade Rosary,<ref>The classic form of the Rosary consists of meditation on fifteen "mysteries" of the lives of Jesus and Mary in three sets of Mysteries: the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries; the fourteenth is the Assumption. Pope John Paul II authorized five additional Mysteries, the five Mysteries of Light, making a total of twenty Mysteries, making the Mystery of the Assumption of Mary the nineteeth Mystery of the Rosary.</ref> the Fourth Glorious Mystery. This meditation precedes the final Mystery of the Rosary: ''The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as Queen of Heaven''.
==Tradition and probable date==
==Tradition and probable date==
There has been no universal agreement on whether she actually died.<ref>[https://www.thoughtco.com/virgin-mary-die-before-her-assumption-542100 Did Virgin Mary Die Before Assumption? by Scott P. Richert (thoughtco.com)]</ref> The dogma proclaimed by Pope Pius XIII in 1950 in accordance with the ancient apostolic Christian tradition in the East and the West holds that Mary the mother of Jesus "''having completed the course of her life on earth''" was taken body and soul into heaven by her Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The dogma does not state that she died, only that she was assumed body and soul into heaven when she had completed the course of her life on earth.
There has been no universal agreement on whether she actually died.<ref>[https://www.thoughtco.com/virgin-mary-die-before-her-assumption-542100 Did Virgin Mary Die Before Assumption? by Scott P. Richert (thoughtco.com)]</ref> The dogma proclaimed by Pope Pius XIII in 1950 in accordance with the ancient apostolic Christian tradition in the East and the West holds that Mary the mother of Jesus "''having completed the course of her life on earth''" was taken body and soul into heaven by her Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The dogma does not state that she died, only that she was assumed body and soul into heaven when she had completed the course of her life on earth.
==See also==
[[Theotokos]]
[[Orthodox Mysteries]]
[[Mysticism]]
[[Rosary]]
[[Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) longer form Chapters 36-42#Thirty-seven|Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) longer form: Chapter Thirty-seven]]
==References==
==References==