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Did Mary Die Before She Went To Heaven?

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No man or woman was ever more intimately united with Jesus than was His mother Mary. He was conceived in her womb; she brought Him forth, nourished Him at her breasts, cuddled Him in her arms, endured His scourging, crucifixion, and death, and witnessed His resurrection and ascension. Mary lived her life as God had created Adam and Eve to live theirs: always trusting in Him. The Church declares that Jesus, at the end of His mother's earthly life, welcomed her, body and soul, into His heavenly kingdom.

John: Our Blessed Mother's assumption into heaven reveals much about the beauty and glory of the future reuniting of our own bodies and souls in heaven.

James: While the Bible does not explicitly speak to the Assumption of Mary, it does give us passages that eliminate obstacles to this teaching.

John: Jesus under His own divine power ascended into heaven. Mary, a mere mortal, was totally dependent upon her Son to be carried into heaven. The Bible says that Enoch and Elijah were assumed into heaven before they suffered death and bodily corruption.

James: Jesus is Mary's savior. He saved her from the stain of original sin at her conception and He saved her from bodily corruption at the end of her life. The Church has never officially taught whether Mary experienced death-the separation of body and soul-before her assumption. But, if we get to heaven, we can ask her.

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