Mary’s Assumption: Keep Your Head in the Clouds

Parma Cathedral, Illusionistic dome, Correggio, 1526–1530

Thomas Griffin 8/15/24 (For SpiritualDirection.com)

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If you are like me, sometimes you can have the false understanding that “having your head in the clouds” is a bad thing. But maybe not.

Images of Mary floating into the heavens can tempt one to think that Catholics are holding to a fairytale belief when it comes to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Similar to countless aspects of the Catholic faith, however, the dogma of the Assumption is based on logical reasoning and the strong belief of the early Church. In order to learn from today’s Solemnity, let us brush aside any doubts about its validity to begin.

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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.


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