Experiencing the Assumption

Experiencing the Assumption: "Since the Second Vatican Council, mainstream Catholic theology has focused on the experiential dimension of faith. How do Catholics, as individuals and as a community, experience such things as God, prayer, the Mass, the sacraments? How do the encounters with these transcendent realities concretely affect the lives of Catholics? The Fathers of the Church always referred their developing understanding of the nature and person of Jesus Christ to the experience of salvation described in the Bible. From this starting point they developed the Christological teachings that we take for granted today: Jesus is one in being with the Father, He is fully God and fully man, and so on.