Why celebrate Mary's Assumption

The Church celebrates Mary's final journey into the fullness of God's Kingdom with the dogma of the Assumption promulgated by Pius XII in 1954.

As with her beginnings, so too, with the end of her life, God fulfilled in her all of the promises that he has given to us. We, too, shall be raised up into heaven as she was. In Mary we have an image of humanity and divinity at home.

God is indeed comfortable in our presence and we in God's. Through her Assumption, Mary was chosen to have a special place of honour in the Godhead.


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