The Assumption

No, not those false ones we make everyday, those sources of conflict that could be avoided if we just looked for clarity in the dialogue. But I’ll get back to that later…

THIS Assumption is the Feast of Mary, assumed into heaven. I know a lot of folks — even within the Church — either don’t know this teaching, or can’t quite explain it.

And then there are those who rail against anything Marian. I always wonder why, when you consider that God chose her to carry out his mission to send his son into the world to save it. I mean, the Old Testament tells the stunning tale of the soldier who rushed to steady the ark of the covenant from falling when it started tipping on that desert trek, and was struck dead the moment he touched it. If that’s how sacred the original ark was, how much more sacred is the ‘ark of the new covenant,’ which is one of Mary’s titles?

Here’s the beginning of an explanation of this day’s significance:

For hundreds of years, Catholics observed the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 15 — celebrating Mary’s being taken bodily to Heaven after her death — but it was not until 1950 that the Church proclaimed this teaching a dogma of the Church — one of the essential beliefs of the Catholic faith.

For the rest, go here.

People always ask friends or family members to pray for them or somebody else. Who better to ask than the mother of God’s only begotten son, which makes her…the Mother of God. Hmmmm?!