Hi, and welcome to Form Now. We are in the fourth part of our five-part series on the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. Today, we are going to cover the Assumption.

With me is Dr. John Seahorn, who is a professor at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology. I'm Taylor Kemp. Are you doing, John?

I'm fine. How are you, Taylor? I'm wonderful. So let's dive right into the assumption. I was thinking, could you just walk us through what exactly is the belief about the assumption?

Sure. So the assumption, it's not so much about, you know, an unfounded conclusion,

which is usually what we need to talk about don't make assumptions, right? No, in this case,

the word assumption just comes from a Latin word, a sumpso, which means a kind of a kind of

taking up. Okay. And it's this refers to the belief that at the end of her life on earth,

Mary was taken up into heaven, not only her soul, but also, but also her body. So this is a

defined dogma. A lot of the details around it though, we don't

we don't really know. There's a there's a whole kind of panoply of legends that arise in

the early church about what exactly this this looked like. So for example, the vast majority

of our early witnesses about this attest to the fact that Mary died before being assumed into heaven.

But we're not required to believe that.

Right.

And then there's also, there is diversity of opinion in the tradition about whether she was resurrected on earth before being

taken into heaven. But the point of the dogma and the really important thing for our faith is to

know that Mary already shares perfectly body and soul in the resurrected life of Jesus in heaven.

Yeah. And I thought, could you maybe distinguish a little bit?

I've heard the question, what is the difference between Mary's assumption into heaven

and Jesus' ascension into heaven?

You know, actually what's interesting is the Greek term for assumption and elapsis,

for those of you who are taking notes.

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