What is the meaning of Munificentissimus Deus?
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What is the meaning of Munificentissimus Deus?
The most bountiful God
Munificentissimus Deus (Latin: The most bountiful God) is the name of an apostolic constitution written by Pope Pius XII. It defines ex cathedra the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
What Pope declared the Assumption of Mary?
Pope Pius XII
In 1950, Pope Pius XII declared the Assumption of Mary official dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church teaches that the Virgin Mary “having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.”
What does the dogma of the Assumption mean?
Assumption, in Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic theology, the notion or (in Roman Catholicism) the doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was taken (assumed) into heaven, body and soul, following the end of her life on Earth.
What does Fiat mean biblically?
The origin of the word fiat in English is connected to the origin of the world itself. Taken from the Latin meaning “let it be done,” this word appears in the Latin translation of Genesis, the first book of the bible, when God proclaimed “let there be light” (fiat lux).
What are the four Marian dogmas?
The four Marian dogmas of Mother of God, Immaculate Conception, perpetual virginity, and Assumption form the basis of Mariology. However, a number of other Catholic doctrines about the Virgin Mary have been developed by reference to sacred scripture, theological reasoning and church tradition.
Do Lutherans believe in the Assumption of Mary?
Lutherans believe that the person Jesus is God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity, who was incarnated in the womb of his mother Mary as a human being, and since, as a person, he was “born of the Virgin Mary”. Lutherans have always believed that Mary is the Theotokos, the God-bearer.
Where in the Bible does it say Mary ascended into heaven?
Mary is called ‘Woman’ in John’s Gospel. At her Assumption, she is said to enter ‘into heavenly glory’. Revelation 12 could be a poetic description of these facts.
