The Assumption of Mary

Tomorrow is the Assumption of Mary. When the apostles heard that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was going to be taken from this world, they gathered at her house and kept watch with her.  

After she died, Mary was buried in a tomb. When the apostles opened the tomb again, her body was gone. Jesus had come with his angels and taken her up to heaven as the beginning and image of the Church coming to perfection, and a sign of sure hope and comfort to God’s people.

Why would God take Mary’s body and soul into heaven? 

Mary is special to God: she said “Yes” to becoming the mother of Jesus.  God also wanted to show us that one day, all of us will share in the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Mary is the first person in the Church to experience the resurrection in its fullness.

You will not find this story in the Bible. However, the story has been retold and handed down through the generations by people retelling it to their whānau, as well as reading stories about it.

We made word clouds of Mary by using https://www.wordclouds.com/ but we are having problems because it won't accept all of our words even though we have resized them. Does anyone know how to fix it? If you do, you could leave a comment for us and then we will be able to post our Mary Word Clouds on our blogs.