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Our Lady's Assumption Into Heaven

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             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 upo...