"It
was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity intact in childbirth,
should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death. It
was fitting that she, who had carried the Creator as a child at her
breast, should dwell in the divine tabernacles. It was fitting that the
spouse, whom the Father had taken to himself, should live in the divine
mansions. It was fitting that she, who had seen her Son upon the cross
and who had thereby received into her heart the sword of sorrow which
she had escaped in the act of giving birth to him, should look upon him
as he sits with the Father. It was fitting that God's Mother should
possess what belongs to her Son, and that she should be honored by every
creature as the Mother and as the handmaid of God." 
"Thus
St. John Damascene, an outstanding herald of this traditional truth,
spoke out with powerful eloquence when he compared the bodily Assumption
of the loving Mother of God with her other prerogatives and privileges.
"Gathering
together the testimonies of the Christians of earlier days, St. Robert
Bellarmine exclaimed: 'And who, I ask, could believe that the ark of
holiness, the dwelling place of the Word of God, the temple of the Holy
Spirit, could be reduced to ruin? My soul is filled with horror at the
thought that this virginal flesh which had begotten God, had brought him
into the world, had nourished and carried him, could have been turned
into ashes ... '"
Quotes above are taken from Pope Pius XII’s Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus defining the Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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