Aug
16
Let It Be Done unto Me: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Cycle B )
1 Chronicles 15:3–4, 15–16, 16:1–2; 1 Corinthians 15:54b–57; Luke 11:27–28; Revelation 11:19a, 12:1–6a, 10ab; 1 Corinthians 15:20–27; Luke 1:39–56
Today we celebrate the bodily assumption of our Blessed Mother into Heaven, that is the transfer of her body into Heaven following her death. This isn’t business as usual. This is an extraordinary event that many of our Protestant brethren set aside and deny. Our Orthodox brethren refer to this event as the Dormition, which is the moment at which our Blessed Mother went to sleep, but they too sustain the same Sacred Tradition that our Blessed Mother’s body did not remain in the grave but was borne up to heaven.
I came across a joke in a newsletter I follow.
Today we celebrate the bodily assumption of our Blessed Mother into Heaven, that is the transfer of her body into Heaven following her death. This isn’t business as usual. This is an extraordinary event that many of our Protestant brethren set aside and deny. Our Orthodox brethren refer to this event as the Dormition, which is the moment at which our Blessed Mother went to sleep, but they too sustain the same Sacred Tradition that our Blessed Mother’s body did not remain in the grave but was borne up to heaven.
I came across a joke in a newsletter I follow.
