This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary Meditation.

We are at the place of the Assumption of Mary.

We are at the empty tomb of Mary in Jerusalem at the foot of the Mount of Olives.

Where from the earliest days of the church, the Assumption of Mary, body and soul into heaven, has been celebrated on August 15th.

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

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

Now a document called the Transitutes Marriere, written by a disciple of John the Apostle,

relates that all of the apostles were recalled to Jerusalem by the Holy Spirit to be with Mary before and during her glorious assumption.

In 1950, in honor of the 1900th anniversary of the assumption, Pope Pius X the 12th declared the dogma of the Assumption

of Mary. St. Germannus of Constantinople in a homily given in the year 720, right here,

where we stand, states that Mary's assumption into heaven was witnessed by the apostles

who could then confirm the truth with their authority.

He writes this,

Your departure did not lack witnesses.

Heaven tells the glory of those who ran to meet you then.

Earth presents the truth about it.

The clouds cry out, the honor they paid you, and the angels

tell of the offering of gifts that was made to you.

Then, when the apostles were

at your side, as you passed

away above Jerusalem.

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