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To: stfassisi

“The ACTUAL Dogma(MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS) uses many references about Mary dying before being Assumed into heaven and DOES NOT say she was alive before being Assumed into heaven.”

Shows what I know! :)In fact, it is quite clear that she had indeed died before the Assumption.


15,308 posted on 10/30/2010 8:40:12 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis; stfassisi
The actual wording of the dogma of the Assumption of Theotokos neither affirms nor denies her death:

"By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: 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" [+Pius XII, 1950]

15,311 posted on 10/30/2010 9:45:52 AM PDT by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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