[Tanniker Smith]

I have defiitely tweaked the noses of some Catholics who should've known better and some non-Catholics who weren't really interested in an answer but rather just gettng ready to start a debate, but when asked what the "Assumption" was, I sometimes say, "after she died, Mary's body disappeared, and everyone assumed she went to Heaven."

While they're scratching their heads at that one, I beat a path out of there quickly!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

LOL, silly Prod, don't you know that she's the QUEEN of heaven???? (or is that Astarte?)

(j/k of course)

[baa39]

Latin, assumere: “to life up” or sometimes translated “to take to oneself.” Catholic teaching does not specify whether the Mother of God physically died and then was taken to Heaven, or whether the Assumption occurred while she was still living. It’s not required to believe either way, just in the fact of the Assumption, which was confirmed by faith centuries before it was declared dogma. The tradition of belief in the Blessed Mother’s assumption can be traced to the fifth century, long before the middle ages. Mary was conceived without original sin, how could her body corrupt? What is so hard for a Christian to believe about the Assumption? Do you not believe Jesus was conceived in Mary’s virginal womb by the Holy Spirit? Do you not believe in Christ’s resurrection? Would it even make sense for the Mother of God, the only pure woman in the history of the world, to be left decaying in the earth rather than join her son, physically with the body that bore Him, as well as spiritually?