Today the Catholic Church celebrates the solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Dogma proclaimed 75 years ago that the Mother of God was elevated to heaven in body and soul.
The proclamation occurred on November 1, 1950 with the Constitution Munificentisimus God of Pope Pius XII, who affirms the following:
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“After elevating many and repeated preces to God and invoking the light of the spirit of truth, for the glory of the omnipotent God, who gave the Virgin Mary his peculiar benevolence; for the honor of his Son, immortal king of the centuries and winner of sin and death; to increase the glory of the same august mother and for joy and joy of the whole Church, with the authority of our Church, with the authority of our Church. Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and with ours, we pronounce, declare and define being a divinely revealed dogma that the immaculate mother of God and always Virgin Mary, finished the course of her earthly life, was assumed in body and soul to the glory of heaven. “
This truth of faith, revealed by God through the Bible or the Holy Tradition, recalls that the body and soul of the Virgin Mary were glorified and taken to heaven at the end of their earthly life.
The Catechism of the Church Point out in numeral 966 that the importance of this dogma lies in the relationship between “the resurrection of your child and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians.”
For his part, San Juan Pablo II, in one of his catechesis on the assumption, explained that “while for other men the resurrection of the bodies will take place at the end of the world, for Mary the glorification of her body was anticipated by singular privilege.”
“Contemplating the mystery of the assumption of the Virgin, it is possible to understand the plan of divine providence with respect to humanity: after Christ, an incarnate verb, Mary is the first human creature that performs the eschatological ideal, anticipating the fullness of happiness, promised to those chosen through the resurrection of the bodies,” said the pontiff During the 1997 general hearing.
When declaring the dogma of the assumption of Mary, Pius XII did not want to settle if the Virgin died and resurrected immediately, or if she marched directly to heaven. Many theologians think that the Virgin died to resemble Jesus more, but others argue that the “Transit of Mary” or “Dormition” occurred, which is celebrated in the East from the first centuries.
In what both positions coincide is that the Virgin Mary, for a special privilege of God, did not experience the corruption of her body and was assumed to heaven, where she reigns alive and glorious, together with Jesus.
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