HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (August 15)
Rev. 11:19;12:1-6,10; 1Cor 15:20-26; Luke 1:39-56 Good morning dearest brothers and sister in Christ, today the Holy Mother Church celebrates the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven. Historically, the belief that after her earthly life, the blessed virgin Mary assumed into heaven body and soul had always been part of the faith of the Christian people and was widespread from the East to the West in the 14th century. Progressively, with the encyclical, “Deiparae Virginis Mariae”, Pope Pius XII consulted the Bishops, clergy and the people of God on the defining possibility of the bodily assumption of Mary as a dogma of Faith. Receiving a plausible response, the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950, solemnly declared and defined as a dogma of faith revealed by God: the taken up body and soul of the immaculate mother of God, Mary ever Virgin, when her earthly life was finished. In the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, Pope Pius XII declared in the fo...