Our Lady's Assumption Into Heaven

            

I often try to imagine what our Blessed Mother's Assumption must have been like, and I come to the realization that it probably didn't happen at all as I imagine. When I read Anne Catherine Emmerich's visions on this event, I see that I am correct in that realization.
I have only posted here the moment of Mary's Assumption, but you may want to read the entire vision beginning with Peter's Mass, and including Our Lady's last Holy Communion.
Please remember that these visions are considered private revelations and are not dogma. That being said, they are too beautiful not to share, and surpass any reflection I could ever write on this event.


On the night following the burial, took place the bodily assumption of the Blessed Virgin into heaven. I saw on this night several of the Apostles and holy women in the little garden, praying and singing Psalms before the grotto. I saw a broad pathway of light descend from heaven and rest upon the tomb. In it were circles of glory full of angels, in the midst of whom the resplendent soul of the Blessed Virgin came floating down. Before her went her Divine Son, the marks of His Wounds flashing with light. In the innermost circle, that which surrounded the holy soul of Mary, the angels appeared like the faces of very young children; in the second circle, they were like those of children from six to eight years old; and in the outermost, like the faces of youths, I could clearly distinguish only the face, the rest of the figure consisting of perfectly transparent light. Encircling the head of the Blessed Virgin like a crown, was a choir of blessed spirits. I know not what those present saw of all this. But I saw that some gazed up in amazement and adoration, while others cast themselves prostrate in fright upon the earth. These apparitions, becoming more and more distinct as they approached nearer, floated over the grotto, and another pathway of light issued from it and arose to the heavenly Jerusalem. The blessed soul of Mary, floating before Jesus, penetrated through the rock and into the tomb, out of which she again arose radiant with light in her glorified body and, escorted by the entire multitude of celestial spirits, returned in triumph to the heavenly Jerusalem. 

 ~from The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Anne Catherine Emmerich