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The Blessed Virgin Mary: Sinless by Grace, Saved by Grace, Assumed by Grace, by Carl E. Olson – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Blessed Virgin Mary: Sinless by Grace, Saved by Grace, Assumed by Grace, by Carl E. Olson

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Top half of "Assumption of the Virgin" (1517) by Rosso Fiorentino [WikiArt.org]

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report, August 15, 2025

Carl E. Olson is editor of Catholic World Report and Ignatius Insight. He is the author of Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?, Will Catholics Be “Left Behind”?, co-editor/contributor to Called To Be the Children of God, co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax (Ignatius), and author of the “Catholicism” and “Priest Prophet King” Study Guides for Bishop Robert Barron/Word on Fire. ….

A Scriptural Reflection on the Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 2025.

Readings:
• Rev 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab
• Psa 45:10, 11, 12, 16
• 1 Cor 15:20-27
• Lk 1:39-56

On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the doctrine that God the Father chose and prepared a Mother for his only begotten Son who was “ever absolutely free of all stain of sin, all fair and perfect” and who “would possess that fullness of holy innocence and sanctity than which, under God, one cannot even imagine anything greater…”

On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII declared as dogma the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. His Apostolic Constitution, Munificentissimus Deus, noted the connection between the two Marian dogmas, stating that the two “are most closely bound to one another.” It said that God does not usually “grant to the just the full effect of the victory over death until the end of time has come,” but did so with the Assumption, “and as a result she was not subject to the law of remaining in the corruption of the grave, and she did not have to wait until the end of time for the redemption of her body.” ….

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