The Assumption of Mary is not explicitly defined in the Bible. So what! Everyone here agrees on that point.
The Assumption is based on a condemned GNOSTIC writing called De Transitu Virginis Mariae Liber.
Pope Gelasius explicitly condemns the authors as well as their writings and the teachings which they promote and all who follow them. And significantly, this entire decree and its condemnation was reaffirmed by Pope Hormisdas in the sixth century around A.D. 520.
In the 3rd of 4th century there was composed a book, embodying the Gnostic and Collyridian traditions as to the death of Mary, called De Transitu Virginis Mariae Liber. This book exists still and may be found in the Bibliotheca Patrum Maxima (tom. ii. pt. ii. p. 212)....The Liber Transitu Mariae contains already the whole of the story of the Assumption. But down to the end of the 5th century this story was regarded by the Church as a Gnostic or Collyridian fable, and the Liber de Transitu was condemned as heretical by the Decretum de Libris Canonicis Ecclesiasticus et Apocryphis, attributed to pope Gelasius, A.D. 494.
How then did it pass across the borders and establish itself within the church, so as to have a festival appointed to commemorate it? In the following manner: In the sixth century a great change passed over the sentiments and the theology of the church in reference to the Theotokos—an unintended but very noticeable result of the Nestorian controversies, which in maintaining the true doctrine of the Incarnation incidentally gave strong impulse to what became the worship of Mary.
http://www.christiantruth.com/articles/assumption.html
THAR YA GO AGIN!
EXPECTING SOME RC’S
TO DEAL WITH . . . DRUM ROLL . . .
THE TRUTH OF HISTORY.
However, having been conditioned for a lifetime to accept only
very rubbery history . . . it’s a bit shocking to have to deal with
HISTORICAL FACTS.
One might should call out the EMT’s first . . . the shock might be toooooooooooo great to their systems.
Details, details.....
Facts are such pesky things, aren’t they?
And currently, there is a very large group of Catholics including bishops and cardinals who are pushing for the Catholic church to claim Mary as part of the Godhead...
And this change can be seen by the gradual acceptance of glorifying Mary with her relatively recent proclaimed roles of co-mediator, co-redemptor and all of the other co’s they are attaching to Mary...
It won’t be long...