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Bisbee's avatar

Goofy joke, funny...as suggested will not use it at Mass though.

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Quanah's avatar

Thanks for the explainer and great dad joke on the solemnity of our Mother.

I find it interesting that when speaking of the Assumption it is often stated Mary's death has not been definitively taught. The implication being that it is a theological opinion and not a teaching of the Church. If by definitively taught one means dogmatically proclaimed then this is correct. But the fact of Mary's death is a teaching of the Church. I think one would be hard pressed to show it being a theological opinion. It has been consistently taught in both East and West in the writings of the Fathers and Doctors, in the iconography of the Church (again, both East and West), in the Church's liturgy (most especially in the East, but it has also been present in the West), and, while not dogmatically, it was affirmed by Pope Pius XII in Munificentissimus Deus. If it is in actuality a theological opinion and not a teaching Catholics are bound hold in faith, it really brings to the fore the question of just what determines a teaching to be a doctrine of faith prior to it's being dogmatically proclaimed.

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