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Originally Posted by Lauren the drunken mick
No no no. You've got it all wrong. We do believe she died, but when she died her body and soul was lifted up into heaven.
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Interestingly, your priests are silent on this matter. I say she didn't. You say she did. The catechism says only, "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things....(
966).
Whoever wrote
this GooseBumps worthy account suggests the Apostles were poofed back to life in Israel when Mary was ready to die. And then Christ Himself descended upon them, with a multitude of angels, and took her soul Himself. That this account is diametrically opposed to the Biblical prophesy of Christ's second coming (Matthew 24:30; Titus 2:13; Revelation 19:11–16) clearly moves no Catholic theologian to conceive the fact that this foolish tale should never have been the foundation of the dogma of the Assumption.
Oh, and by the way, the story says that "all who were there present fell on their faces, as the apostles fell when Christ transfigured Himself before them on Mount Thabor, and for a whole hour and a half no one was able to rise. But when the light went away, and at the same time with the light itself, the soul of the blessed virgin Mary was taken up into heaven with psalms, and hymns, and songs of songs. And as the cloud went up the whole earth shook, and in one moment all the inhabitants of Jerusalem openly saw the departure of St. Mary."
The lack of all corroboration from
any inhabitant of Jerusalem clearly bothers no Catholic theologian as well. They are so used to making things up it doesn't even cross their minds to ponder how goofy it sounds. She never died; yes she did. Her body was taken by Christ; no, her dead body, wrapped in linen floated up through the tomb and into the sky and beyond. Hey, let's throw in Pegasus and Link, too!
Catholics will believe anything.