Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

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

apostles who were witnesses of this

event. After the ascension of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit of

Pentecost, the upper room or the place of the last supper became the first Catholic

Church.

An ancient document called the Transitus Marier based on the writings of Lucius. a relates that Mary lived next to this church of the Last Supper in Jerusalem on Mount Zion for the rest of her life,

so that she might be close to her son always in the eucharist.

The Church of the Dormition in Jerusalem

now stands over the site that was her home. This document relates that toward the end of her earthly life

the angel Gabriel made known to her that her time on earth was short. 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.

Mary then visited all the holy sites in Jerusalem

one last time. Then all the living apostles returned except for Thomas. He was late. The Apostles were with Mary in her home as she fell

asleep or died. The Church has never declared which. Then with great reverence the Christian community took our lady in a

procession through the streets of Jerusalem from Mount Zion to the foot of

the mount of olives where they placed her in a tomb near Gissemone.

They all gave her a last kiss and sealed the tomb with a stone and kept vigil there in prayer, where they witnessed her bodily

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