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thepastisalreadywritten · 9 months

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Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Today, August 15, Catholics and many other Christians celebrate the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This significant feast day recalls the spiritual and physical departure of the mother of Jesus Christ from the earth, when both her soul and her body were taken into the presence of God.

Venerable Pope Pius XII confirmed this belief about the Virgin Mary as the perennial teaching of the Church when he defined it formally as a dogma of Catholic faith in 1950, invoking papal infallibility to proclaim “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.”

His Apostolic Constitution “Munificentissimus Deus” (Most Bountiful God), which defined the dogma, contained the Pontiff's accounts of many longstanding traditions by which the Church has celebrated the Assumption throughout its history.

The constitution also cited testimonies from the early Church fathers on the subject and described the history of theological reflection on many Biblical passages, which are seen as indicating that Mary was assumed into heaven following her death.

Although the bodily assumption of Mary is not explicitly recorded in Scripture, Catholic tradition identifies her with the “woman clothed with the sun” who is described in the 12th chapter of the Book of Revelation.

The passage calls that woman's appearance “a great sign that appeared in heaven, indicating that she is the mother of the Jewish Messiah, has the moon under her feet, and on her head, a crown of twelve stars.”

Accordingly, Catholic iconography of the Western tradition often depicts the Virgin Mary's assumption into heaven in this manner.

Eastern Christians have also traditionally held Mary's assumption into heaven as an essential component of their faith.

Pius XII cited several early Byzantine liturgical texts, as well as the eighth-century Arab Christian theologian St. John of Damascus, in his own authoritative definition of her assumption.

“It was fitting,” St. John of Damascus wrote in a sermon on the assumption, “that she, who had kept her virginity intact in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death and that she, who had carried the creator as a child at her breast, should dwell in the divine tabernacles.”

In Eastern Christian tradition, the same feast is celebrated on the same calendar date, although typically known as the Dormition ("falling asleep") of Mary.

Eastern Catholic celebration of the Dormition is preceded by a two-week period of fasting, which is similar to Lent.

Pius XII, in “Munificentissimus Deus,” mentioned this same fasting period as belonging to the traditional patrimony of Western Christians as well.

The feast of the Assumption is always a Holy Day of Obligation for both Roman and Eastern-rite Catholics on which they are obliged to attend Mass or Divine Liturgy.

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divinum-pacis · 2 years

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August 25, 2022: Christian women hold candles during a procession to bring an icon of the Virgin Mary to the tomb where it is believed she is buried, along the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem. Every year before the Feast of the Assumption, the icon is brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the tomb of the Virgin Mary to honor her Assumption. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

#religion #christianity #orthodoxy #christians #women #people #assumption #dormition #jerusalem #middle east #divinum-pacis

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postcard-from-the-past · 3 months

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15th-century Pskovo-Pechersky Dormition Monastery in Pskov, Russia

Russian vintage postcard, illustrated by Vladimir Shuko in 1903

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hiddenromania · 2 years

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Today is the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the last major feast of the Orthodox ecclesiastical year.

It is a very important date in the traditional calendar in Romania. August 15 is when the shepherds start bringing the sheep down from the mountain pastures--a sign that the summer is over.

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thesynaxarium · 2 years

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Today we celebrate the dormition of the Holy and Righteous Anna, the grandmother of Jesus Christ. Saint Anna bore the Virgin Mary at an old age and lived a righteous life of prayer after until her peaceful repose at age 79. Parts of her incorrupt relics are kept on Mount Athos and in Rome. May she intercede for us always + #saint #anna #dormition #theotokos #virginmary #repose #prayer #holy #righteous #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Jerusalem Palestine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgZ8okWPn-E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#saint #anna #dormition #theotokos #virginmary #repose #prayer #holy #righteous #orthodox #saintoftheday

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lours-se-met-en-4 · 2 years

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#Marie #Virgin Mary #Son visage #Dormition #lours-se-met-en-4 #photographie #format DIN A4

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achristopaganbreviary · 2 years

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Dormition of Mary Prayer

Oh strange wonder, great and marvelous! For the fount of life is laid within a sepulcher, a ladder to Heaven's heights doth the small grave become. Be glad, O Gethsemane, the sanctuary of her that gave birth to God. Ye faithful, let us cry out, possessing as our commander great Gabriel: Maiden full of grace, rejoice thou, with thee is the Lord our God, who abundantly granteth His great mercy to the world through thee.

Who can tell thy mysteries, O Pure one! Thou art known, O Lady, as the throne of the Most High, and thou hast removed from earth to Heaven on this day, majestically and sublime, thy glory beameth with graces divinely-bright. Ye virgins, be lifted up unto the height with the Mother of Christ the King. Maiden full of grace, rejoice thou, with thee is the Lord our God, who abundantly granteth His great mercy to the world through thee.

Thy Dormition is now glorified by dominions, powers, principalities and thrones, authorities, cherubim, and the dread seraphim; the earthborn are filled with joy, adorned with thy divine glory and majesty; and kings worship, falling down with all the angels and archangels, and they sing: Maiden full of grace, rejoice thou, with thee is the Lord our God, who abundantly granteth His great mercy to the world through thee.

#dormition #assumption #prayers

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apesoformythoughts · 2 years

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#theotokos #feast of the assumption #dormition #iconography

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twobrothersatwork · 16 days

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Meister der Gewandstudien (German, 15th century) Dormition of the Mother of God (1480-1490)

#catholicism #Holy Mother of God #Blessed Virgin Mary #Dormition #sacred art

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minakiblogging · 2 years

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Three hypothesis on Mary’s end by Epiphanius of Salamis.

Three hypothesis on Mary’s dormition by Epiphanius of Salamis.

“If the holy Virgin is dead and has been buried, surely her dormition happened with great honor; her end was most pure and crowned by virginity. If she was slain, according to what is written: “A sword shall pierce your soul” (Lk 2:35), then she obtained glory together with the martyrs, and her holy body, from which light shone forth for all the world, dwells among those who enjoy the repose of…

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#death #dormition #God #martyrs #Mary #sword

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divinum-pacis · 2 years

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Jerusalem: Orthodox nuns hold candles and flowers as they take part in a procession through Jerusalem’s Old City, bringing an icon of the Virgin Mary to the tomb where she is believed to be buried. Every year before the Feast of the Assumption, the icon is brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the tomb of the Virgin Mary to honour her assumption.

Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

#religion #christianity #orthodoxy #eastern orthodox #christians #nuns #women #people #assumption #dormition #jerusalem #middle east #divinum-pacis

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hiddenromania · 2 years

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The doors of caring do now open unto us,

O most blessed Theotokos,

So that hoping in you we shall not fail;

Through you we may be delivered from adversities,

For you are the salvation of the Christian faith.

#dormition #of #theotokos #necula #monastery #romania #eastern europe #orthodoxy #christian orthodox #orthodox christianity #christianity #church aesthetic #christian churches #churches of romania #feastday

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philipchircop · 2 years

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ASSUMPTION

A long time she’d been fading. He noticed how upright and still she’d sit in her chair, gazing for silent hours through the latticed window into the late afternoon air.

She ate almost nothing, spoke even less. He feared her mind and soul were wandering, but she seemed alert, listening to voices he could not hear, and always pondering

the visitations and the strange events. Why was she chosen to participate in the confusion, fear and violence? How did providence and her will relate

to conceive a joy that would pierce her heart? He saw the pale, fragile skin of her hands— the faint pulse of the delicate veins and her clear eyes, watching waiting to depart.

Then she rose, nodded and put out the light. She pulled her shawl around her, crossed the room and lay down — arms crossed, to sleep for the night- ready at last to be carried home.

Poem: Fr. Dwight Longenecker

#dormition #assumption #Mary #poem #catholic poems #Maria #Ave Maria #Theotokos #icons #Kateryna Kuziv

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phillipmedhurst · 2 years

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47. The Dormition by Jorge Sanchez Hernandez

Jorge Sánchez Hernández [1926 – 2016] was a Mexican Catholic painter and continuator of the style of 17th century Spanish Baroque painters. Collections include: Portraits of Colonial Nuns; Scenes from Ancient Mexico; the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Collection; the Mother of Jesus Collection; the Gospel Scenes Collection; the Collection with scenes from the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe; and…