My goodness!! These sisters have started preparations for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 15th August! You see, from the hour when Jesus told John Behold your mother! (Jn 19:25-27), the Apostle took care of the Virgin Mary in his own home in Jerusalem. At the time of her death, all the disciples who were preaching throughout the world returned to Jerusalem and gathered together at her bedside, except for Thomas who had been preaching in far-off India. At the moment of her death, Jesus Christ himself descended and carried her soul into heaven. The body was taken in procession and laid in a tomb near the Garden of Gethsemane. When the Apostle Thomas arrived three days after her repose and desired to see her body so that he could say goodbye, and thats when it was discovered that she had left the earth in body and in spirit, to intercede on the behalf of the faithful. The apostles found her clothes left behind in the tomb, where they emanated a wonderful fragrance, a true odor of sanctity. The bodily assumption of Mary was later confirmed by the message of an angel and by her own appearance to the Apostles.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:52:34 +0000
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