SPECIAL EDITION MASS THREAD 8/15/24: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

This is a worthwhile 4 minute explanation for anyone with questions or curiosity about the Assumption.

We believe that the body which bore the Holy Body of the Son of God has not known the corruption of the flesh, the lot of all sinners. From the fact that God was pleased to dwell in Mary's womb and that he preserved her from all sins (Immaculate Conception), he could not equally let her body and her soul sink into corruption and experience decay. So, the Pope affirms, Mary was assumed Body and Soul in the glory of her Son. If the Immaculate Conception was the preparation for Mary's role in God's plan of salvation, the Assumption can be seen as the coronation for this Marian mission, the reward of God to her "Fiat Voluntas Tua" and her virtuous life. In Mary, we see clearly that God always rewards mankind, when this one accepts to give way to His will and to live in righteousness.

Here are the Scriptural readings for the day. Marian Holy Days are my favorites outside of Holy Week, and the passages tying her together as the Ark of the New Covenant are truly beautiful. I love the Blessed Virgin so much. One of my future daughters will be named Maria 100%. If we only have sons I might even consider naming the last Mario.

Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth. She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne. The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God.

For !primarysourceschads here is the 1950 Apostalic Constitution of Pope Pius XII defining the Dogma.

45. Hence if anyone, which God forbid, should dare willfully to deny or to call into doubt that which we have defined, let him know that he has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith.