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The Assumption Of Mary, Scripture & The Fathers
Today is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven. Protestants often attack this dogma by asserting that it lacks early patristic support and therefore is not apostolic. However, the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven, body and soul, is indicated in Scripture.
Revelation 12:1 “And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.”
This woman had a crown on her head. That indicates that she is present in Heaven in both body and soul. Her Son rules all nations with a rod of iron (Rev. 12:5). That refers to Jesus. The “woman” in Revelation 12, therefore, refers to Our Lady. This woman is also understood to refer to the Church, since images in the Apocalypse can be polyvalent (i.e. they can have more than one meaning or application). However, the “woman” of Rev. 12 certainly refers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. This demonstrates that Scripture itself teaches the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven. Hence, there didn’t need to be much explicit early support for the Assumption of Our Lady in the writings of the fathers, since it was taught by the Apostle John in one of the books of Scripture. It’s certainly apostolic.
Pope Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus (#27), Nov. 1, 1950: “Moreover, the scholastic Doctors have recognized the Assumption of the Virgin Mother of God as something signified, not only in various figures of the Old Testament, but also in that woman clothed with the sun whom John the Apostle contemplated on the Island of Patmos.”
Many Had Strayed From The Truth
MHFM: In the 1950 bull Munificentissimus Deus (which defined that Our Lady was assumed into Heaven), Pius XII lamented that at that time many had strayed from the truth.
Pope Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus (#2), Nov. 1, 1950: “… our pontificate is weighed down by ever so many cares, anxieties, and troubles, by reason of very severe calamities that have taken place and by reason of the fact that many have strayed away from truth and virtue.”
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