Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Munificentissimus Deus

Similarly [the scholastic Doctors] have given special attention to these words of the New Testament: "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women,"(25) since they saw, in the mystery of the Assumption, the fulfillment of that most perfect grace granted to the Blessed Virgin and the special blessing that countered the curse of Eve.

St. Robert Bellarmine exclaimed: "And who, I ask, could believe that the ark of holiness, the dwelling place of the Word of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit, could be reduced to ruin? My soul is filled with horror at the thought that this virginal flesh which had begotten God, had brought him into the world, had nourished and carried him, could have been turned into ashes or given over to be food for worms."

St. Francis de Sales, after asserting that it is wrong to doubt that Jesus Christ has himself observed, in the most perfect way, the divine commandment by which children are ordered to honor their parents, asks this question: "What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?"

Preface

It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God, through Christ our Lord.

For today the Virgin Mother of God was assumed into heaven as the beginning and image of your Church's coming to perfection and a sign of sure hope and comfort to your pilgrim people; rightly you would not allow her to see the corruption of the tomb since from her own body she marvelously brought forth your incarnate Son, the Author of all life.

Catechism

966 "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death." The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians:
In giving birth you kept your virginity; in your Dormition you did not leave the world, O Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death.

Kingship

Hebrews 1:3
When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high

Ps 45:9
daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

Incorruption

Ex 25:10-11
10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood; (RSVCE)
10 And thou shalt make the ark of testimony of incorruptible wood; (Septuagint)

Prophesy

Luke 3: He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly.

1 Chronicles 15:3 David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring the ark of the LORD to the place which he had prepared for it.

Psalm 132:8 Arise, Lord, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.