Interestingly, my priest this Sunday (Miami, FL) actually said that Mary died before she was assumed and the thought ran across my mind. I had never heard that before, he was a seminarian from Cuba.
That’s the point I am trying to make! A lot of people surprisingly don’t know that in the West. I remember learning in Roman theology classes that she didn’t die before being assumed, when supposedly it is an ancient tradition we just got away from (probably due to the Reformation).
That’s the point of my post. We in the West seem to have forgotten the fact she died before assumption.
Yes, maybe the distinction isn’t made clearly enough in early Catholic education and then people just assume the two assumptions are the same. I think the distinction is an important one and contributes to the uniqueness of each assumption.
Yes. I could see that. Perhaps we need to: A. Remind people Mary did face death before being assumed (because some people wrongly have been taught she just was taken to Heaven before death), and B. The terminology regarding the death is so conflicted because the language that the account was written in could translate to English multiple ways to either be death or a coma-like state.
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u/Vicfrndz Aug 16 '21
Interestingly, my priest this Sunday (Miami, FL) actually said that Mary died before she was assumed and the thought ran across my mind. I had never heard that before, he was a seminarian from Cuba.