The Assumption of Mary
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the movement of the Holy Family. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to our Rotary meditation. |
| 0:05.0 | Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:07.0 | Amen. |
| 0:08.0 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:22.0 | Today we celebrate the feast of the assumption when God took Mary's soul and body into heaven at the end of her earthly life. The bodily assumption of Mary is a truth handed down by the |
| 0:25.9 | apostles who were witnesses of this event. After the ascension of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit of Pentecost, |
| 0:35.0 | the upper room or the place of the Last Supper became the first Catholic Church. |
| 0:41.0 | An ancient document called the Transitus Marier based on the writings of |
| 0:47.4 | Lucius Caronus, a disciple of St John the Apostle relates that Mary lived next to this church of the Last |
| 0:57.4 | Supper in Jerusalem on Mount Zion for the rest of her life so that she might be close to her son always in the |
| 1:06.0 | Eucharist. The Church of the Dormition in Jerusalem now stands over the site that was her home. |
| 1:15.0 | This document relates that toward the end of her earthly life, |
| 1:20.0 | the angel Gabriel made known to her that her time on earth was short. |
| 1:25.8 | She prayed for the apostles to return for all but James the less the Bishop of Jerusalem had been sent on mission throughout the world. |
| 1:35.3 | Mary then visited all the holy sites in Jerusalem one last time. |
| 1:40.1 | Then all the living apostles returned except for Thomas. He was late. |
| 1:46.0 | The apostles were with Mary in her home as she fell asleep or died. |
| 1:52.0 | The church has never declared which. Then with great |
| 1:55.8 | reverence the Christian community took our lady in a procession through the |
| 2:00.4 | streets of Jerusalem from Mount Zion to the foot of the Mount of |
| 2:05.2 | Olives where they placed her in a tomb near Gisesemai. They all gave her a last |
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