ASSUMPTION of MARY into Heaven Explained! A Solemnity Remembering when Mary was taken to Heaven - a Holy Day of Obligation - Major Feast of August 15
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The Eastern Churches call Mary's assumption the Dormition of the mother of God. Dormition means sleep. Her assumption may have occurred in Ephesus where she lived with Saint John after the death of Jesus. However, many believe it occurred in Jerusalem at the location of the Church of the Assumption in Jerusalem. References to the Feast of the Assumption being celebrated since the time of the Apostles date back to sermons in the 4th century today it is considered one of the solemn feast days of the universal Church it is celebrated by all Latin Rite and Eastern Rite Catholics. In some countries including the United States it is a holy day of obligation to attend Mass on August 15th. The faithful remember the Assumption of Mary during the fourth glorious mystery of the Holy Rosary.
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Regarding the day, year, and manner of Our Lady's death, the Church always derived its knowledge of the mystery from Apostolic Tradition. . The belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs to the fourth or fifth century. It is also found in the book De Transitu Virginis, and in a letter attributed to St. Denis the Areopagite. If we consult genuine writings in the East, it is mentioned in the sermons of St. Andrew of Crete, St. John Damascene, St. Modestus of Jerusalem and others.
St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon in the year 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.
According to the life of St. Theodosius, who died in 529, it was celebrated in Palestine before the year 500, probably in August.
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