The
Assumption of Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life is not a
complicated doctrine, but one question is a frequent source of debate: Did
Mary die before she was assumed, body and soul, into Heaven? :From the
earliest Christian traditions surrounding the Assumption, the answer to
the question of whether the Blessed Virgin died like all men do has been "yes." The Feast of the Assumption was first
celebrated in the sixth century in the Christian East, where it was known
as the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (the Mother of God). To this
day, among Eastern Christians, both Catholic and Orthodox, the
traditions surrounding the Dormition are based on a fourth-century
document called "The Account of St. John the Theologian of the Falling Asleep of the Holy Mother of God ." (Dormition means "the falling
asleep." That document, written in the voice of Saint John the Evangelist
(to whom Christ, on the Cross, had entrusted the care of His mother),
recounts how
the Archangel Gabriel came to Mary as she prayed at the Holy Sepulchre
(the tomb in which Christ had been laid on Good Friday, and from which He rose on Easter Sunday). Gabriel told the Blessed Virgin that her earthly
life had reached its end,
and she decided to return to Bethlehem to meet her death. All of the
apostles, having been caught up in clouds by the Holy Spirit,
were transported to Bethlehem to be with Mary in her final days.
Together, they carried her bed (again, with the aid of the Holy Spirit) to her home in Jerusalem, where, on the following Sunday, Christ appeared
to her and told her not to fear. While Peter sang a hymn, the face of the
mother of the Lord shone brighter than the light, and she
rose up and blessed each of the apostles with her own hand, and all gave
glory to God; and the Lord stretched forth His undefiled hands, and
received her holy and blameless soul. . . . And Peter, and I John, and Paul, and Thomas, ran and wrapped up her precious feet for the consecration;
and the twelve apostles put her precious and holy body upon a couch, and
carried it. The apostles took the couch bearing Mary's body to the Garden
of
Gethsemane, where they placed her body in a new tomb: And, behold, a
perfume of sweet savour came forth out of the holy sepulchre of our Lady the mother of God; and for three days the voices of
invisible angels were heard glorifying Christ our God, who had been born
of her. And when the third day was ended, the voices were no longer
heard; and from that time forth all knew that her spotless and precious
body had been transferred to paradise. "The Falling Asleep of the Holy
Mother of God" is the earliest extant written document describing the end of Mary's life, and as we can see, it
clearly indicates that Mary died before her body was assumed into
Heaven. The earliest Latin versions of the story of the Assumption, written
a couple of centuries later, differ in certain details but agree that Mary
died, and Christ received her soul; that the apostles entombed her body;
and that Mary's body was taken up into Heaven from the tomb. That none of these documents bear the weight of Scripture does not
matter; what matters is that they tell us what Christians, in both the East
and the West, believed had happened to Mary at the end of her life. Unlike
the Prophet Elijah, who was caught up by a fiery chariot and taken up into
Heaven while still alive, the Virgin Mary (according to these traditions)
died naturally, and then her soul was reunited with her body at the Assumption. (Her body, all of the documents agree, remained incorrupt
between her death and her assumption).

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No idea,, wait till u get to heaven then you can ask God

Searched d Bible, didn't see where the Bible talked about Mary, except in matters that involved Jesus. Catholic doctrine I believe. As far as am concern u shud b asking ur catholic priest.

Where do people get their doctrines from? Why can't we just stick to the Bible for crying out loud?.

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