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From: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
> The little I have read of the legends about the Assumption say Mary died
but was raised by God.
> Tom Izbicki
in any event, the Dormition was certainly a reasonably popular icongraphic
scene in painting (East and West) and (after c. 1150) sculpture in the West.
http://www.aug.edu/augusta/iconography/biggerFiles/coronationSenlis.context.html
no Death, no Dormition.
no Dormition, no Assumption.
no Assumption, no Coronation.
no Coronation, no Queen of Heaven.
Q.E.D.
c
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> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marjorie Greene" <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >> I believe that Mary's sinlessness, including the First One, was at
> >> the heart of the belief that she did not die in the usual sense but
> >> was assumed body and soul into heaven.<
> >
> > It's hard to see how her death can be disputed by Roman Catholics
> > considering the words of Pope Pius XII in the very document by which
> > he dogmatically defined the Assumption.
> >
> > It would, btw, be quite impossible for Eastern Catholics not to
> > believe that the Mother of God died without doing an act of violence
> > to their own sacred Tradition. The iconography, the hymnography and
> > the oral Tradition all teach that she did in fact die.
> >
> > People like to say that the Apostolic Constitution "Munificentissimus
> > Deus" by which Pope Pius XII established the dogma of the Assumption
> > in 1950 makes no mention of whether Mary died or did not die.
> >
> > This is inaccurate. One only has to read the document to see that the
> > Pope believed that she died. For example, he says:
> >
> > "Thus, to cite an illustrious example, this is set forth in that
> > sacramentary which Adrian I, our predecessor of immortal memory, sent
> > to the Emperor Charlemagne. These words are found in this volume:
> > "Venerable to us, O Lord, is the festivity of this day on which the
> > holy Mother of God suffered temporal death, but still could not be
> > kept down by the bonds of death, who has begotten your Son our Lord
> > incarnate from herself."
> >
> > and
> >
> > "As he kept you a virgin in childbirth, thus he has kept your body
> > incorrupt in the tomb and has glorified it by his divine act of
> > transferring it from the tomb."
> >
> > and
> >
> > "They offered more profound explanations of its meaning and nature,
> > bringing out into sharper light the fact that this feast shows, not
> > only that the dead body of the Blessed Virgin Mary remained incorrupt.."
> >
> > and
> >
> > "she has received an eternal incorruptibility of the body together
> > with him who has raised her up from the tomb.."
> >
> > and
> >
> > "What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring
> > her into paradise after her death if he could?"
> >
> > These quotes from the papal document defining the Assumption are proof
> > that the Pope taught that Mary died and was buried in a tomb and from
> > there she was resurrected by her Son.
> >
> > _________________________________
> > "MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS" Pope Pius XII
> > http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P12MUNIF.HTM
> >
> > -oOo-
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