While the Acension of Jesus to heaven is a source of great hope for us, Jesus being immortal God makes the event unreachable for us mortals. Mary, however, was a human creature -- granted, a very special creature -- as we are. The feast of Assumption is therefore a source of even greater hope that one day we will also have a good death (this feast is called the Holy Dormition in Orthodox churches) and that we will go to heaven to join our Holy Mother.
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The Assumption in Art