15/08/2024
Assumption Day commemorates the belief that when Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, died, her body was "assumed" into heaven to be reunited with her soul, instead of going through the natural process of physical decay upon death.
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus as follows:
Also called
The Assumption
Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Observed by
Roman Catholic Church (see calendar)
Eastern Orthodox Church (see calendar)
Oriental Orthodox Churches
Lutheranism (see calendar)
Anglican Communion (see calendars)
Church of the East
Type
Christian
Significance
The bodily taking up of Mary, the mother of Jesus into Heaven
Observances
Attending Mass or service
Date 15 August
Sunday nearest to 15 August (Armenian Apostolic Church)[1]
Frequency Annual
We pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.
— Pope Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus, 1950
SOURCE:
https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/origins-and-practices-of-the-assumption-of-mary/ #:~:text=Assumption Day commemorates the belief,of physical decay upon death. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary
Happy Feast Day of the Assumption of Holy Mary!
(PHOTO: A famous treatment in Western art, Titian's Assumption, 1516–1518)
