Liturgia wyrazem wiary i pobożności na przykładzie Uroczystości Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny

Abstract

The article is focused on the following thematic groups: the 1450 years of the Feast of the Assumption (1); the symbolism of the day it is celebrated on in the liturgical year (2); and the direct features of the Feast (3). These features include: the Assumption as taking the Virgin Mary to heaven with her body and soul (3.1); the Assumption as a consequence of Christ’s Resurrection (3.2), the Virgin Mary as the image of the Church in glory (3.3); the Assumption as elevation of Mary (3.7) and the Assumption as a consequence of the Divine Motherhood and the Immaculate Conception (3.8). The remaining features of the Feast are suggestive images in its liturgy: the Great Sign in the sky – the Woman Clothed in the Sun (3.4); “the Queen stands on your right” (3.5); and “the ark of His glory sets off with the Lord” (3.6). In this way this feast may become an expression of the intuition of faith and piety, of the features’ fantasy, imagination, spontaneity, and at the same time of a concrete and a consequence, of dramaturgy or meditative character of Marian ecclesiology and of ecclesiological Mariology. Nothing points to overestimating the significance of declaring the Assumption a dogma of faith in 1950 just because of the form and the contents of the celebration.