Today, Catholics celebrate the Assumption of Mary into Heaven

In layman’s terms, Mary got her glorified body early.

There has never been any defined doctrine about whether or not Mary died first. I had a pastor who believed she would have wanted to die, because her Son had done so. But one of the seers at Medjugorje asked her about it and she said she did not die.

I like the idea that she did not die, because when Jesus returns on the clouds, the dead in Christ will rise first and receive their glorified bodies, just as Jesus patterned for us with his glorious Resurrection.

After the Resurrection of the Dead, the elect who are alive will receive their glorified bodies directly, without dying first. I like the idea that Mary did not die, but rather that her Assumption was our pattern for the Rapture.

It seems like somebody must have seen the event, so it puzzled me…

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CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY

if you are one of the fortunates who don’t have time to spend reading articles on the web,you are lucky indeed. My senses have been accosted by images of mass executions,children being beheaded or crucified, Christian men being hung and woman and girls being raped and sold as sex slaves in the open market. Such is the savagery of ISIS. The Iraqi army is no match for these assassins and we’re no longer there to provide support thanks to our president’s desire to brag about: “I ended the war in Iraq.”

Our president has yielded to public pressure and authorized dropping aid to the Yazidis,who are trapped on a mountain and dying of thirst and hunger as they try to avoid certain doom at the hands of these hellspawn. He also authorized a few pinprick bombings of the bad guys so he can say crap like “I ordered” and “acting…

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