Just a quick reminder
– tomorrow is the Feast of the Assumption, a Holy Day of Obligation and a
defined dogma of the Catholic Church.
Celebrated every year on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into
Heaven, before her body could begin to decay--a foretaste of our own bodily
resurrection at the end of time.
On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, exercising papal infallibility and declared
that it is a dogma of the Church "that the Immaculate Mother of God, the
ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed
body and soul into heavenly glory." As a dogma, the Assumption is a
required belief of all Catholics; anyone who publicly dissents from the dogma,
Pope Pius declared, "has fallen away completely from the divine and
Catholic Faith."
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