THE ASSUMPTION
1. After the
apostles have dispersed, the Blessed Mother goes to live with John, the beloved
disciple.
2. Mary
lives many years on earth after the death of Christ.
3. She is a
source of comfort, consolation and strength to the apostles.
4. As she
had nourished the infant Jesus, so she nourishes spiritually the infant Church.
5. Mary
dies, not of bodily infirmity, but is wholly overcome in a rapture of divine
love.
6. Her body
as well as her soul is taken up into heaven.
7. After her
burial the apostles go to the tomb and find only fragrant lilies.
8. Jesus
does not permit the sinless body of His Mother to decay in the grave.
9. Corruption
of the body is an effect of original sin from which Mary is totally exempted.
10. The bodies of
all mankind, at the last judgment, will be brought back and united again to the
soul.
Spiritual Fruit: To Jesus through Mary