13/02/2024
🕊️Vestige Files 026. 347
🕊️"Dumaralos" Hack to "Pasimbalo" tan "Masanto" : Think like a "Mariologist", Live like a "Franciscan"
{365 Ways to live one's love and devotion to the Mother of Jesus}
💎Say Mikapat ya Dogma nen Inan Maria, tan say tepet ya inatey ba si Mama Mary antes ton nan-assumed ed tawen? or Andi?..
On our Mother Mary, in Luke 1:28, " Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you.." coming from the Angel Gabriel....
Full of grace is translated from Greek as "kecharitomene"...a perfect passive participle...with its present tense "charitoo" - to fill or endow with grace...
This means that our Mother Mary was graced in the past....and can effect this in the present....
As of all dogmas, it is making the explicit...what is already implicit in our Holy Scripture and our Sacred Tradition..
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND;
The Dogma of Immaculate Conception was declared, pronounced and defined on December 8, 1854 by Pope Pius IX in "Dogma of Faith in the Apostolic Constitution, "Ineffabilis Deus". .
From then on some or mostly were also included in the opening prayer in our liturgical text during the Solemnity Celebration of the Immaculate Conception..
4 years after, on February 11, 1858, Our Lady, Our Mother Mary appeared in Lourdes, France to a 14 year old girl named Bernadette Soubirous and said her named, "I am the Immaculate Conception" with the following messages to the whole world;
***exaltation of the virtues of Christian poverty and humility, importance of prayer and personal conversion...penance...penance...and...the confirmation and exaltation of the Dogma.
***Added to that...is the praying of the Holy Rosary...
Our Mother Mary is doing her Role in the "Church" not only in heaven...but also here on earth...not always in our own time...but in God's Time....where He makes all things beautiful.....
DID OUR MOTHER MARY DIED OR ASSUMED TO HEAVEN FIRST?
This 4th Dogma of our Mother Mary have some aspects that are open for discussion among theologians and lay faithful as well. Our Church did not declare fully...
***whether Mary died...and then assumed to heaven...
***or assumed to heaven first...and die?
***or did our Mother Mary really die... and assumed..prior to the separation of body and soul...like all of the normal way of dying..of all human race?.
First and foremost let us differentiate "Ascension" of our Lord Jesus Christ and the "Assumption" of our Mother Mary.
The first is by His Own...as God's only Begotten Son, our Redeemer...and our only Mediator between God and Man, ....the latter..by the power and grace of God through the "Special Privilege" given to her...as to be, and the...Mother of His Son...ever virgin and immaculate....
Did our Mother Mary die? .
Majority of our Fathers of the Church, Theologians, Marian Scholars, Saints and even some Protestants,Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Baptists...believed that she died and experienced death. But this must be understood in conformity to her Son Jesus....
Hindi lang parang palabas lang, sige kunwari mamatay ako....at sa ikatlong araw...mabubuhay..
No...a big No..
Our Mother Mary is not God...
She is human like us...but...without sin..as we talked about on the doctrine and teaching of "preservation and preredemption"...
She died and experienced death...but by that "special love of God" predestined, preserved...she was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory... in heaven.
In the words of our Magisterium...this is a logical conclusion of Mary's vocation on earth and as a consequence of her Divine Motherhood.(Lumen Gentium 61).
And it is this "close association" and "deep relation" of Jesus and Mary that is the very foundation of this belief on the Assumption of our Mother Mary.
There are no explicit text in our Scriptures but some biblical themes can shed some understanding and light....
Enoch, without seeing death. (Hebrews 11:5)
Elijah, with his chariots of fire going to heaven. (2 Kings 2:11)
"Woman clothed with the sun".. in the Book of Sign of John. (Revelations 12:1ff).
These were Old Testament prophets and the "eschatological" icon of the Church...being mentioned.....how much more with our Mother Mary...where her son Jesus could...can...assume his only Mother in flesh and blood...into Gods abode...
The apocrypal citations in the Early Oral and Written 5th Century Poetry about Mary's passing from this life to the next, "Transitus Mariae" (Pseudo-Melito) mentioned...and expressed in details how our Mother Mary assumed to heaven.
It is not an official documents to support the 4th Marian Dogma but at least one can conclude the 5th Century faith filled devotion to our Mother Mary....to its existence to Middles Ages....until now....
In the year 1849 to 1950 petitions for the dogma arrived in Rome. The result were, 22 bishops out of 1181 were not in favored, 6 were in doubts and the rest...were in questions and abstained.....
In November 1, 1950 Pope Pius XII in his Encyclical, "Most Bountiful God, Munificentissimus Deus" formally declared, pronounced and defined the Dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven body and soul. {CCC # 966; 974}.
These 4th Dogma reminds us that we are pilgrims on this earth, this world which points us to heaven as our permanent home with God, Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, Mama Mary, Joseph and all Angels and Saints.....
By virtue of our baptism and confirmation...we have a deep union with Jesus and became children of God...and witnesses of God's Love, Mercy and Grace...until the end of time...
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FRANCISCAN INPUT:
The Marian Dogmas are all centered on and upon Jesus, "predestined" by God the Father to be incarnated...will take a human flesh..for redemption of humanity. .
This is a result of a pure and free act of love on the part of God...
Also, all of creations was modeled and fashioned according to God's Word...out of nothing..comes something...,"Let there be...and there is it..and it was very good." the power of God's Word...and the Word who will be fleshed..the Incarnation of the Word, in the person of Jesus...
What follows were the "bulk of wisdom" and one aspect of Franciscan Spirituality or at its best...that were taught to us..and lived to the very marrow of our "communal fraternal, franciscan conventual life..in my postulancy, novitiate year and in my professed life as franciscan friar...before...this is the main result of one aspect of Franciscan Spirituality or the "golden" treasure. .
That God the Father has this "twofold purposes" in the salvation of mankind...."redemption" and "all of creation" an entry in a "mysterious ways" into a loving relationship with God as Trinity of Persons".
The beauty and glory of Creation (its essence and unique completeness) is to...or to glorify God..
And all of these were fashioned and modeled in the incarnation of His Son, in the person of Jesus....
St Francis penned and prayed in his canticle... "Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Sister Mother Earth...Sister Death...", the "exaltation" of the wondrous "works" of God's Creation...fashioned, modeled in Jesus, the Incarnate Word, our Savior, our Redeemer, our "Big" Brother....
Hope and pray that in our small ways...we may also be "a mother", an "ever-virgin", "immaculate" and an "assumption" and a "resurrection".... to our love ones and those we encounter everyday...in our dialoque, in our action, in our witnessing...and in our very life...for Gods greater glory........
-through Mary who always shows and points us to Jesus
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"The Song of Bernadette". Dir. Henry King. December 21, 1943. USA : 20th Century Fox. VHS...