Christ gave His Mother to be our Mother also because everything God does is family oriented. In God's Family, He is the Father, and Mary is our supernatural Mother in grace and she became our Mother at the foot of the cross. Saint John 19:27 "After that, he saith to the disciple: BEHOLD THY MOTHER. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own."
NOTE: God requires from us all, a tender love and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, and Our Mother, a tender love and devotion to her, in the exact same manner Christ had a tender love and devotion to His Blessed and Immaculate Virgin Mother. (Saint John 19:27) Since we are brothers and sisters in Christ, we share a common Mother in the supernatural order. By the exact same means that Christ came to mankind we also IMITATE Christ and go back to Him through the Blessed Virgin. (Saint John 13:15) For where there is Jesus, there is Mary, and where there is Mary, there is Jesus. One step away from Mary is exactly one step away from Jesus. A sign of true devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and of predestination is to pray the Most Holy Rosary everyday.
Where can we find the basis for Marian beliefs in Holy Scriptures, in the Holy Bible?
It can be proven that if one does not have Mary as their Mother, one likewise does not "HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST." Apocalypse 12:1,2,5,17: "And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. ...And being with child, she cried travailing in birth: and was in pain to be delivered. [Mary is our Spiritual Mother who travailed in great labor at the Foot of the Cross in giving our birth] ...And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her son was taken up to God and to his throne. ...[This Man Child is Christ] ...AND THE DRAGON WAS ANGRY AGAINST THE WOMAN: AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER SEED[CHILDREN], WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST."
For WHOSOEVER is not a CHILD of MARY can not really be considered to "keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
Likewise, One who does not have Mary for his Heavenly Mother does not have God for his Heavenly Father. And Mary is such a sweet, tender and compassionate Mother whose only aim/goal is to lead/bring souls to the Sacred Heart of her Divine Son Jesus - infinite ocean and source of Mercy - (appeasing the Justice and Divine wrath of the Father) - and full of patience and compassion towards the penitent sinner.
We should ultimately believe in all of the infallible dogmas of the Church concerning the Blessed Virgin Mary for the reason that Holy Mother the Church has the last word and is "the pillar and the foundation of the truth". (1 Timothy 3:15)
From the book "FATIMA in Lucia's own words"
Our Lady then said to me[Lucia]:
"The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father, in union with all the Bishops of the world, to make the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means. THERE ARE SO MANY SOULS WHOM THE JUSTICE OF GOD CONDEMNS FOR SINS COMMITTED AGAINST ME[Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary], that I have come to ask reparation: sacrifice yourself for this intention and pray."
I gave an account of this to the confessor, who ordered me to write down what Our Lady wanted done.
Later, in an intimate communication, Our Lord complained to me, saying:
"They did not wish to heed my request. Like the King of France, they will repent and do it, but it will be late, Russia will have already spread her errors throughout the world, provoking wars, and persecutions of the Church; the Holy Father will have much to suffer."
Our Lady told Sister Lucia that the Justice of God condemns for sins committed against her[Our Lady]. Many souls go to hell because of sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary of which include:
"Our Lord Himself gave the answer to Sister Lucia:
My daughter, the reason is simple. There are five types of offences and blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
1) Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception;
2) Blasphemies against Her Virginity;
3) Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, in refusing at the same time to recognize Her as the Mother of men;
4) The blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of children, indifference or scorn or even hatred of this Immaculate Mother;
5) The offences of those who outrage Her directly in Her holy images.
Here, my daughter, is the reason why the Immaculate Heart of Mary inspired Me to ask for this little act of reparation [The Five First Saturdays] . . . (May 29,1930)"
Pope Pius VIII, Traditi Humilitati (#4), May 24, 1829: "Jerome used to say it this way: he who eats of the Lamb outside this house will perish as did those during the flood who were not with Noah in the ark. ... Those who were not in the ark of Noah perished in the flood."
The Lamb is Our Lord Jesus Christ truly present in the Blessed Sacrament, and the House is the Most Holy Roman Catholic Church and the present day Noah's Ark is none other than the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Tabernacle of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Those who enter into this new Noah's Ark, The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of our Most Dear Mother Mary through the Most Holy Rosary and Brown Scapular will NEVER perish in a possible future Chastisement.
Foretold in the Old Testament:
Isaias 7:14 "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel." Micheas 5:2-3 "And thou Bethlehem Ephrata, art a little one among the thousands of Juda, out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the ruler in Israel: and his going forth is from the beginning, from the days of eternity. Therefore will he give them up even till the time wherein SHE[Mary] that travaileth shall bring forth: and the remnant of his brethren shall be converted to the children of Israel." The "travaileth" that is mentioned is the great pain and sorrow Mary underwent giving birth to all mankind at the foot of the cross, Jesus giving Mary to us as our supernatural Mother in grace, Saint John representing all mankind.(Saint John 19:27)
Eve and the Earth are TYPES of Mary, are prefigurements of Mary, who was conceived without original sin. Corinthians 15:45 "The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit" Romans 5:14 "...after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come." (Adam is a TYPE of Christ, a prefigurement of Christ, Therefore, likewise, Eve is a TYPE of Mary, a prefigurement of Mary.) Genesis 1:27 "And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them." (The First Woman, Eve, was created without sin, likewise the Second Woman, Mary, was also created without original sin.) Genesis 3:15 "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she[Ipsa in Latin, the woman] shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel."(Eve is a TYPE, a prefigurement of Mary.) Saint Luke 1:28 "And the angel being come in, said unto her: HAIL, FULL OF GRACE, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." (One born in original sin can NOT be full of grace.)
"because 'For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emmanation of the glory of the Almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her.' as is written (Wisdom 7:25), 'nor the rising of the dawning of the day,' (Job 3:9) that is of the Blessed Virgin, who in her birth was immune from original sin." (Summa, Third Part, Question 27, Article 2) "We must therefore confess simply that the Blessed Virgin committed no actual sin, neither mortal nor venial; so that what is written (Canticles 4:7) is fulfilled: 'Thou art all fair, O my love, and THERE IS NOT A SPOT IN THEE,' etc." (Summa, Third Part, Question 27, Article 4)
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created heaven, and earth." Genesis 1:10 "And God called the dry land, EARTH; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was GOOD.(God created the Earth WITHOUT any blemish, defect, or flaw, absolutely PURE, IMMACULATE and perfect.) Genesis 2:7 "And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the EARTH: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul." The Earth(spoken of in feminine terms, the ground in Hebrew being 'Adama', Adam being the son of the 'Adama'), creation itself is a TYPE of Mary, a prefigurement of Mary and of The Immaculate Conception. The earth gave birth to Adam, just as Mary gave birth to the second Adam, Christ.(Corinthians 15:45, Romans 5:14). If the Earth was absolutely PURE and IMMACULATE, then Mary too is absolutely PURE and IMMACULATE. Mary being the new, the second creation, the greatest creation of God the Almighty, His absolute Masterpiece in whom no one ever was, is or will be greater. Job 1:21 "And said: Naked came I OUT OF MY MOTHER'S WOMB, and Naked shall I RETURN THITHER: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord." Job is referring to his returning to his Mother, Earth.
(A) Adam ---> (C) Christ
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(B) Earth ---> (D) Mary
BA represents a Mother to Son relationship (The Earth is the Mother of Adam)
AC represents Type to anti-Type (Christ is the second, new Adam)
DC represents a Mother to Son relationship (Mary is the Mother of Christ)
BD represents Type to anti-Type (Mary is the new Earth, the new Creation)
Line BA is equivalent to line DC (Mother to Son, Mother to Son)
Line AC is equivalent to line BD (Adam is a type of Christ, then the Earth is a type of Mary. The condition of the Earth that gave birth to Adam, is that is was uncursed, unfallen, undefiled, then for Scriptural Justice to hold true, Jesus the second Adam would have to enjoy the exact same privilege of Adam, namely that His Mother would have to have NO curse, NO fall, NO defilement, NO pollution upon her whatsoever. Mary is NOT tainted by original sin. The Creation of the Earth is a TYPE of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
NOTE: The Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception existed in Holy Scriptures and Sacred Tradition before the death of the last apostle, Saint John the evangelist that marked the end of public revelation and the UNCHANGEABLE Deposit of Faith, "de Fide", long before this Doctrine ever had time to develop; so this repudiates any notion of development of doctrine!
NOTE: The Immaculate Conception refers to Mary's conception, when she was formed in her mother's womb. It means that Mary did not inherit the original sin of Adam and Eve, which we all inherit, that was a great privilege from God Himself. One might think that Our Lady did not need to be saved but on the contrary, She was saved in a manner much greater than any human could be saved. Consider the analogy of a pit of tar. One man not seeing it falls in and another man pulls him out. Consider a very special woman who walks near the tar pit, and with her, the man grabs her before she can even fall in. This man saves this woman in a way far greater than he saved the other man who fell into the tar pit. In this analogy, the man who acts as a savior is Jesus Christ and the other man is a human being, and the woman is the Blessed Virgin Mary. So Mary can rightly say: Saint Luke 1:46-47 "My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my SAVIOR."
God can apply the fruits of a future event to a present event in the case of the Blessed Virgin. This is possible because the Last Supper in Union with the Passion of Our Lord on the Cross at the Crucifixion is the very first Mass and as such is the intersection of Eternity with time. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is an Eternal moment occurring in time and at the point the Mass ceases on the earth, at that same moment Eternity will be disconnected with time and the earth itself, which will never happen because Christ promised: "behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world." Saint Matthew 28:20.
This reason made it possible for Our Lord to change bread and wine into His Body and Blood at the Last Supper before the Passion occurred, the fruits of His Passion in the future, and applied to that present moment of the Last Supper. In like manner Almighty God applied the fruits of the Eternal moment of His Passion on the Cross to the Blessed Virgin's Immaculate Conception before the Passion occurred, because the One Eternal Moment of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass can intersect time at any point and be applied to any moment in time. The foreseen fruits and merits of Our Lord's Passion and Death on the Cross were applied by the Most Holy Trinity to the Holy Virgin's Immaculate Conception before this Most Holy Event, the Passion of Our Lord, had occurred in time. And thus Our Lady can truly proclaim "I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION." to Saint Bernadette.
Venerable Pope Pius IX officially and INFALLIBLY pronounced this teaching in 1854 AD, but it has been professed by many of the early Church Fathers from St. Ambrose and St. Augustine to St. John Damascene, and was celebrated in the Eastern Church from as far back as the 7th Century AD.
The belief in the Assumption of Mary is another ancient belief which is part of Sacred Tradition. It is believed by the Church that Mary, at her death, was assumed into Heaven, body and soul.
Pope Pius XII solemnly and INFALLIBLY proclaimed the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in 1950 AD.
We must therefore firmly believe in these INFALLIBLE pronouncements in order to be saved!
Mary, the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, personified as Wisdom:
Wisdom 7:25-26 "For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emmanation of the glory of the Almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her. For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness."
Throughout the Blessed Mother's entire life, she was a living, breathing prayer, our example and model in prayer.
A Virgin:
Isaias 7:14 "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a VIRGIN shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel." Ezechiel 44:2 "And the Lord said to me: This GATE[Mary's womb] shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be SHUT" Saint Matthew 1:18, 22-23 "Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. ... Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying: Behold a VIRGIN shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." Saint Luke 1:27 "To a VIRGIN espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David: and the VIRGIN'S name was Mary." Saint Luke 1:34 "And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man?"
Maintained her virginity:
Some may think that since Jesus is referred to as the firstborn male - that it makes sense that - that indicates that Mary had other children. To understand better - we need to take a look at the history and tradition of what is meant by the firstborn male being consecrated to the Lord. When the time of their purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, 'Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord'), and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: 'a pair of doves or two young pigeons.' (Luke 2:22-23) Consecration of the firstborn MALE, in recognition that the firstborn son belongs to the Lord. It was known in the Old Testament that the Messiah would be the firstborn MALE of a Virgin. And the fact that the firstborn male was the firstborn does not necessarily mean that there would be a second or third born and so on. It simply means that the firstborn male would be the Messiah. The prophetic sign ends with the prophecy that the child born from "the virgin" will be called Immanuel, meaning "God among us". (Isaiah 7:14)
The following demonstrates without any doubt that Mother Mary had no other children besides her Divine Son Jesus. At the Crucifixion of Our Lord - we see that Jesus gives Saint John care over His Mother Mary - since Jesus clearly did not have any other blood brothers or sisters. Saint John 19:27 "After that, he saith to the disciple: behold thy Mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own." Our Lord Jesus entrusted His Mother to Saint John alone - and Not to any blood brothers or sisters which if Our Lord Jesus had - He would have had to have by law. At Pentecost, after Christ's death, the supposed blood brothers and sisters are still present, so this means that they had not passed away. Acts 1:14 "All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his BRETHREN." Again, Christ gave His Mother to Saint John since He clearly had no blood brothers or sisters. And - ultimately we are all brothers and sisters of the Lord Jesus having a common supernatural Mother in Grace - Mary.
Saint Matthew 1:25 "And he knew her not till she brought forth her first born son: and he called his name Jesus." This passage seems to allude to the notion that Mary had children with Saint Joseph after Jesus, but on the contrary; Consider the passage Saint Matthew 22:44 "The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, UNTIL I make thy enemies thy footstool?" Does this mean that once Our Lord's enemies are made his footstool, he no longer sits at the right hand of the Father??? because of the use of the word "UNTIL". Certainly NOT! This use of the word "till" or "until" must not be misinterpreted lest we be damned according to 2 Saint Peter 1:20 and 2 Saint Peter 3:16.
Saint John 19:27 "After that, he[Jesus] saith to the disciple[Saint John]: behold thy Mother. And from that hour, THE DISCIPLE TOOK HER TO HIS OWN." Acts 1:14 "All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his BRETHREN." Jesus could NOT break the Law and entrust His Most Holy Mother to Saint John if He had any living blood brothers or sisters. The fact that His supposed BRETHREN were still present at the Pentecost(Acts 1:14), AFTER His death, proves that these BRETHREN are merely cousins or other relatives, because again, Christ did not entrust His Most Holy Mother to one of His supposed blood brothers or sisters because he had NO blood brothers or sisters. Therefore this proves that without a doubt Mary was and is a PERPETUAL Virgin!
Genesis 3:16 "To the woman also he said: I[God] will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children..." Mary, the Second Eve, conceived with out original sin, "FULL OF GRACE", and who never sinned, enjoyed the benefits of Eve before the fall, namely not giving birth in pain. Ezechiel 44:2 "And the Lord said to me: This GATE[Mary's womb] shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be SHUT" Jesus caused absolutely no pain to Mary at His birth, passing through Mary's womb as light through glass. Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori("Most Zealous Doctor of the Church") proclaims "Mary is called the 'Gate of Heaven' because no one can enter Heaven but through her means." Saint Luke 1:34 "And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man?"
Mother of God:
Isaias 9:6 "For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace." Mary is the Most Holy Mother of the CHILD who is God the Almighty. Saint Matthew 1:23 "Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." Saint Luke 1:32,35 "He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. ... And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." Saint Luke 1:43 "And whence is this to me[Saint Elizabeth] that the MOTHER OF MY LORD should come to me?" Saint Elizabeth was referring to her DIVINE Lord in the person and child of Jesus Christ. Saint Luke 2:11 "For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David." Galatians 4:4 "But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law"
Highly blessed:
Saint Luke 1:28 "And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." Saint Luke 1:42 "And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb." Saint Luke 1:45 "And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord." Saint Luke 1:48 "Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed."
Was to suffer many sorrows, personified in Lamentations:
Lamentations 1:2,7,12,15,17 "...Weeping, she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: there is none to comfort her ... Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction ... see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow ... the Lord hath trodden the winepress for the virgin daughter ... there is none to comfort her" Mary is personified in Lamentations, in fact Saint Bernard proclaims "Holy Scripture was written for Mary, about Mary, and on account of Mary." Think about it. The Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is ABSOLUTELY UNSELFISH, and instead of inspiring the Scripture writers to write on account of Himself, He inspires them to write on account of His Greatest Creation, His Absolute Masterpiece, The Blessed Virgin Mary. Saint Luke 2:34-35 "And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted. And thy own soul a SWORD SHALL PIERCE[spiritually at the foot of the cross], that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed." Saint Luke 2:48 "And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee SORROWING." Saint John 19:25 "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen."
Mary's Glory:
Judith 15:10-11 "And when she was come out to him, they all blessed her with one voice, saying: Thou art the GLORY of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the honour of our people ... and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever." Judith is a TYPE of Mary, a prefigurement of Mary
Mary's Glorious Assumption into Heaven
Baruch 3:28-29 "And because they had not wisdom[personifying Mary], they perished through their folly. Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her[wisdom personified as Mary], and brought her down from the clouds?" Ecclesiasticus 51:13 "I[wisdom personifying Mary] dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud." Ecclesiasticus 24:16 "...and my[wisdom personifying Mary] abode is in the full assembly of saints." Canticle of Canticles 3:6 "What is this coming up from the desert, like a column of smoke laden with myrrh, with frankincense, and with the perfume of every exotic dust?" (The Glories of Mary by Saint Alphonsus de Liguori(Doctor of the Church): The myrrh typified her[Mary's] complete mortification, the incense her fervent prayers. ... Saint Jerome expresses this idea ... She was as a spiral of smoke and gave out a most sweet odor because she burned interiorly like a holocaust with the flame of divine love.) which all typifies Mary's Glorious Assumption into heaven. Apocalypse 11:19 "And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple." The Ark and the Holy Tabernacle of the Covenant, of the New Testament, of Jesus Christ, is Mary
NOTE: The Doctrine of Mary's Glorious Assumption into Heaven existed in Holy Scriptures and Sacred Tradition before the death of the last apostle, Saint John the evangelist that marked the end of public revelation and the UNCHANGEABLE Deposit of Faith, "de Fide", long before this Doctrine ever had time to develop; so this repudiates any notion of development of doctrine!
Can a human being have the stain of even the slightest sin and be assumed body and soul in heaven?
NO. Scriptures tell us that Mary was assumed into heaven and for anyone to be assumed they would have to be sinless!
Where can we find the Biblical basis for Mary's Queenship?
Based on Saint Thomas Aquinas' "Catena Aurea" who quotes Saint Jerome who compiled the Bible from all the original most ancient languages into the Sacred Language of the Church, the Latin Vulgate, the official Bible of the Catholic Church, and Saint Thomas Aquinas in his "Catena Aurea" also quotes other Church Fathers on the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Christ spoke to the scribes and Pharisees: Saint Matthew 12:42 "The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and BEHOLD A GREATER THAN SOLOMON HERE." Christ is greater than Solomon. The queen of the south that Our Lord is speaking of is the Queen of Saba whom we read in the book of Kings and Chronicles. And a greater than the Queen of Saba is also here, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who reigns as Queen of angels and saints with our King, Jesus Christ. All kingdoms need a King as well as a Queen. 1 or 3 Kings 10:13 "And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she desired, and asked of him: besides what he offered her of himself of his royal bounty." 2 Paralipomenon 9:12 "And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired, and that she asked, and many more things than she brought to him" The queen of Saba is a Type, a prefigurement of Mary, and Jesus, Our King, gives to Mary all that she desires, and shares His own Royal Bounty with her. King David speaks of the Queen: Psalms 44:10 "The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The QUEEN stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.", who is none other than Mary, who sits at the right hand of Christ who sits at the right hand of His Father.
Personified in the Book of Ecclesiasticus, Personified as Wisdom:
Ecclesiasticus 1:6,9,10,15, 4:13,14,15, 6:24, 7:21, 24:24- 26,39 "To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed, and who hath known her wise counsels? ... He created her in the Holy Ghost, and saw her, and numbered her, and measured her. ... And he poured her out upon all his works, and upon all flesh according to his gift, and hath given her to them that love him. ... And they to whom she shall shew herself love her by the sight, and by the knowledge of her great works. ... They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a blessing. ... They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her. ... Give ear, my son, and take wise counsel, and cast not away my advice. ... for the grace of her modesty is above gold. ... I am the MOTHER of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is ALL GRACE of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits. ...For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean."
Mary, the Mediatrix of all Graces:
Ecclesiasticus 24:40-44 "I, wisdom[personifying Mary], have poured out rivers. I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty water; I, like a CHANNEL of a river, and like an AQUEDUCT, came out of paradise. I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water abundantly the fruits of my meadow. And behold my brook became a great river, and my river came near to a sea: For I make DOCTRINE to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar off." Ecclesiasticus 24:24-25 "I am the MOTHER of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is ALL GRACE of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue. Saint Luke 1:28 "And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, FULL OF GRACE, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women."
Mary, Co-redemptrix, Queen, Protectress, Consoler and Advocate with Jesus, and Our Mother:
1 Corinthians 3:9 "For we are God's coadjutors(co- workers)..." Who more closer to Christ could be more our advocate with Jesus? "The Mystical City of God"(Revelations on the Life of Mary dictated by The Blessed Virgin Mary herself, and approved by countless Theologians) by Venerable Mary of Agreda, Following the Institution of the Most Blessed Sacrament(The Last Supper) Jesus said to Mary "My Mother, I will be with thee in thy affliction. Let US accomplish the will of the Eternal Father and the Salvation of the world ... The incarnate Word said: 'To my true and natural Mother belong all the creatures which were created and redeemed by Me; and of all things over which I am King, She too shall be the legitimate and supreme Queen.' The Holy Ghost said: 'Since She is called my beloved and chosen Spouse, She deserves to be crowned as Queen for all eternity.' ...'My sweetest children, I[Jesus] am about to ascend to my Father, from whose bosom I descended in order to rescue and save men. I leave with you in my stead my own Mother as your Protectress, Consoler and Advocate, and as your Mother, whom you are to hear and obey in all things. Just as I have told you, that HE WHO SEES ME SEES MY FATHER, and HE WHO KNOWS ME, KNOWS ALSO HIM; so I now tell you, that HE WHO KNOWS MY MOTHER, KNOWS ME; HE WHO HEARS HER, HEARS ME; and WHO HONORS HER, HONORS ME. All of you shall have Her as your Mother, as your Superior and Head, so shall also your successors. She shall answer doubts, solve your difficulties; in Her, those who seek Me shall always find Me; for I shall remain in Her until the end of the world, and I am in Her now, although you do not understand how.'"
The Moon, a Symbol of Mary:
Ecclesiasticus 43:6 "And the moon[a symbol of Mary] in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world." Canticle of Canticles 6:9 "Who is she[Mary] that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the MOON, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?"
Personified in Proverbs:
Proverbs 8:34 "Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my GATES, and waiteth at the posts of my doors." Proverbs 8:35 "He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord."
Meditated on Jesus' word:
Saint Luke 2:51 "And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart." Saint Luke 2:19 "But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart."
Mary, our Advocate and Requested Jesus' first miracle:
Saint John 2:1,3-5 "And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. ... And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine. And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me AND to thee? My hour is not yet come. His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." Jesus, places His interests on the same level as Mary's when he says "what is that to me AND to thee?"
Given to us as our mother:
Saint John 19:25-27 "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that, he saith to the disciple: BEHOLD THY MOTHER. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own." Mary is our supernatural Mother in grace and Saint John represents us all. Mary bore us all in her spiritual womb at the foot of the cross. Mary first gave birth to Christ, the Head of His Mystical Body and Mary is giving birth with the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, to the rest of His Mystical Body at every Baptism.
Devoted herself to prayer:
Acts 1:14 "All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren."
Mary is full of grace:
Saint Luke 1:28 "And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, FULL OF GRACE, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women."
Why is Mary a perpetual Virgin?
Mary is a perpetual Virgin because she so very much cherished purity above all other creatures and completely consecrated her body and soul to Almighty God to such a degree that no creature was, is and ever will equal this total offering of Mary to God, and because it was God's WILL for her to be a perpetual Virign. Jesus absolutely could not break the law and entrust his Mother to Saint John if Jesus had any living relatives, any blood brothers or sisters. If any blood brothers or sisters were still living, by the law, Jesus would have to entrust his Mother to one of them, otherwise He would be breaking the law which is impossible for Him to do. This proves that Mary is a perpetual Virgin and had no other children besides Jesus Christ. However one could argue that it may have been possible for these supposed blood brothers and sisters of Christ to have passed away at this point. But at Pentecost, after Christ's death, these supposed blood brothers and sisters are still present, so this means that they had not passed away. Acts 1:14 "All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his BRETHREN." These brethren are merely cousins and other relatives of Jesus. Again, Christ could not break the law by not entrusting His Holy Mother to His supposed blood brothers and sisters, so this proves again that Christ had no blood brothers and sisters and that Mary is a perpetual Virgin.
The first Eve was to give birth to children with no pain, but after the fall, women would now have great pain in child birth. Genesis 3:16 "To the woman also he said: I[God] will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children..." Ezechiel 44:2 "And the Lord said to me: This gate[Mary's womb] shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be SHUT" Jesus caused absolutely no pain to Mary at His birth, passing through Mary's womb as light through glass, when Mary gave birth to Christ, the HEAD of His Mystical Body, but at the foot of the cross Mary underwent great pain, agony and sorrow in giving spiritual birth to us all, the rest of the Mystical Body of Christ, when Christ proclaimed her as the Mother of Saint John who represents us all. Mary enjoyed all the privileges of Eve before the fall including giving birth with no pain, since Mary was conceived without original sin and never sinned. Through the disobedience of the first woman came the fall of man, and through the obedience of the second woman comes the rise of man.
Why is the Blessed Virgin the secondary cause of our salvation and where can we find more Biblical basis for Marian beliefs?
First a distinction needs to be made between redemption and salvation. Redemption is Christ making satisfaction to His Heavenly Father for original sin through His death on the Cross and His institution of the sacrament of Baptism. We must must make restitiuion for sins commited after Baptism either in this life or the next. Salvation is not a state of being on earth but rather a continual process of persevering in the Faith and after all restitution has been made of our sins, entering heaven. Saint Matthew 5:26 "Amen, I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence, till thou pay the last farthing." Philippians 2:12 "...work out your salvation with fear and trembling." Consider the analogy of a king and queen of a kingdom. The kingdom is surrounded by walls with a gate. Redemption would be the king opening the gate. Salvation would be the queen leading and bringing people through the gate.
Our Lord Jesus Christ and only Him, redeemed all of mankind. Our Lord is also the primary cause of our salvation, because if Christ had not redeemed all of mankind no one could be saved and enter heaven. Our Lady is the secondary cause of our salvation because of her suffering, her motherhood and queenship of all mankind, and the fact that all graces that man has, flows from Christ through the pure hands of the Blessed Virgin. No one can enter heaven without sanctifying grace. So Our Lady leads and brings souls through the gates of heaven that Our Lord opened through his death on the cross. No one can attain salvation without the assistance of the Blessed Virgin!
NOTE: But salvation is for a few people, the minority, as Christ told us: Saint Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and MANY there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and FEW there are that find it!"
"The Lord has placed in Mary the plentitude of all good, so that if any hope, or grace, or SALVATION is in us, we know that we derive it all from Mary." Saint Bernard God the Father has placed His own Son in Mary. "This immense treasury is none other than Mary ... From her fullness all men are made rich. ... Through her[Mary] He[God the Son] applies His merits to His members and through her He transmits His virtues and DISTRIBUTES His graces." (True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin by Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, Chapter 1, paragraphs 23-24)
Imitation of the Trinity:
To give ourselves to Jesus through Mary is to imitate God the Father, who has given us His Son only through Mary, and who communicates to us His grace only through Mary. It is to imitate God the Son, who has come to us only through Mary, and who, by giving us an example, that as He has done, so we do also(Saint John 13:15), has urged us to go to Him by the same means by which he has come to us, that is, through Mary. It is to imitate the Holy Ghost, who bestows His graces and gifts upon us only through Mary. Is it not fitting asks Saint Bernard, that grace should return to its author by the same channel which conveyed it to us ? (The Secret of Mary by Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, Part I, III, paragraph 35)
Prefigurement of the Blessed Virgin:
"Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a VIRGIN shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel."(Isaias 7:14) Emmanuel means God among us.
(The Angelic Salutation of the Archangel Gabriel) Hail Mary...
"And the angel being come in, said unto her: HAIL, FULL OF GRACE, THE LORD IS WITH THEE: BLESSED ART THOU AMONG WOMEN." (Saint Luke 1:28)
"And she cried out with a loud voice and said: BLESSED ART THOU AMONG WOMEN AND BLESSED IS THE FRUIT OF THY WOMB[JESUS]." (Saint Luke 1:42)
Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God:
"And whence is this to me that the MOTHER OF MY LORD should come to me?" (Saint Luke 1:43)
Saint Elizabeth was referring to her DIVINE LORD who is God Himself in the person and child of Jesus Christ. The Bible is clearly proclaiming that Mary truly is the MOTHER OF GOD!
"Now therefore PRAY FOR US, for thou art a holy woman, and one fearing God." (Judith 8:29) Judith, Eve and other Holy women in the Old Testament are TYPES of Mary, prefigurements of Mary just as Adam is a type of Christ. "The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit." (1 Corinthians 15:45)
"Brethren, pray for us." (1 Thessalonians 5:25) If the prayers of the sinful followers of Saint Paul had power before God, how much more will the prayers of the sinless Blessed Virgin have power before God?
PRAY FOR US SINNERS, NOW AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH. AMEN.
It is important for us to recognize our sinfulness before Almighty God.
The hour of our death is the most important moment of our lives and having Mary as our advocate before Jesus, we can be sure we will receive the Mercy of Christ.
The Hail Mary in Latin:
AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Scripture Passages that on the surface, appear to downplay the Blessed Virgin Mary when in actuality they honor her
"And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage." Saint John 2:1-2
Notice how Saint John lists Mary first when he lists the attendees at the wedding at Cana.
"And Jesus saith to her: WOMAN, what is that to me and to thee? my hour is not yet come." Saint John 2:4
At the wedding feast at Cana, Our Blessed Lord is placing his interests on the same level as Mary's when He says "...what is that to me AND to thee?"
"When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: WOMAN, behold thy son. After that, he saith to the disciple: BEHOLD THY MOTHER. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own." Saint John 19:26-27
Mary is our supernatural Mother in grace. Jesus absolutely could not break the law and entrust his Mother to Saint John if Jesus had any living relatives, any blood brothers or sisters. If any blood brothers or sisters were still living, by the law, Jesus would have to entrust his Mother to one of them, otherwise He would be breaking the law which is impossible for Him to do. This proves that Mary is a perpetual Virgin and had no other children besides Jesus Christ. However one could argue that it may have been possible for these supposed blood brothers and sisters of Christ to have passed away at this point. But at Pentecost, after Christ's death, these supposed blood brothers and sisters are still present, so this means that they had not passed away. "All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his BRETHREN." (Acts 1:14) These brethren are merely cousins and other relatives of Jesus. Again, Christ could not break the law by not entrusting His Holy Mother to His supposed blood brothers and sisters, so this proves again that Christ had no blood brothers and sisters and that Mary is a perpetual Virgin.
Jesus referred to His most Blessed Mother as WOMAN, because He was referring to the woman in Genesis who foreshadowed Mary. "And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the MOTHER OF ALL THE LIVING." (Genesis 3:20) The title "Mother of all the living" given to Eve was lost by her disobedience, and this title is now given to Mary by Christ, through her obedience. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the second Eve in the same manner that Christ is the new Adam. "...after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come." Romans 5:14 "The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit." 1 Corinthians 15:45
"I will put emnities between thee and the WOMAN, and between thy seed and her seed: SHE shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for HER heel." Genesis 3:15
It is important to note that this translation comes from the original Latin Vulgate by Saint Jerome, the official Bible of the Catholic Church. This verse refers to Eve, the first WOMAN. The second WOMAN in the supernatural order is none other than Our Lady. There is a direct correspondence between the WOMAN, Eve, in the Old Testament, the WOMAN, Mary, in the New Testament, and the WOMAN spoken of in the 12th Chapter of the Apocalypse. "And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. And being with child, she cried travailing in birth: and was in pain to be delivered. ... And she brought forth a man child, who was to RULE ALL NATIONS with an iron rod. And her SON[JESUS CHRIST] was taken up to God and to his throne. ... And the dragon was angry against the WOMAN and went to make war with THE REST OF HER SEED[Mary's spiritual children], who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." (Apocalypse 12:1,2,5,17)
NOTE: Who are those who keep the commandments of God? Those who keep the commandments of God are those who joyfully obey the Ten Commandments given to Moses(Exodus 20:1-17) and all the commandments, precepts, of the Church, the "pillar and foundation of truth"(1 Saint Timothy 3:15).
The first Eve was to give birth to children with no pain, but after the fall, women would now have great pain in child birth. "To the woman also he said: I[God] will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children..." (Genesis 3:16) "And the Lord said to me: This gate[Mary's womb] shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be SHUT"(Ezechiel 44:2) Jesus caused absolutely no pain to Mary at His birth, passing through Mary's womb as light through glass, when Mary gave birth to Christ the HEAD of His Mystical Body, but at the foot of the cross Mary travaileth in great pain(Apocalypse 12:2), agony and sorrow in giving spiritual birth to us all who are sinners, the rest of the Mystical Body of Christ, when Christ proclaimed her as the Mother of Saint John who represents us all. Mary enjoyed all the privileges of Eve before the fall including giving birth with no pain, since Mary was conceived without original sin and never sinned. Through the disobedience of the first woman came the fall of man, and through the obedience of the second woman comes the rise of man.
Acts 1:14 "All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." Acts 2:4 "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost..."
Mary gave birth three times. First to Jesus, second to all of mankind, represented by Saint John, at the foot of the cross, and third, Mary gave birth to the Catholic Church at Pentecost, in which she was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost a second time, granting her the graces she would need to fulfill her Motherhood of the infant Church.
"And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee. But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brethren. For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother." Saint Matthew 12:47-50
It is important to note that the brethren spoken of, are not blood brothers and sisters. Christ is merely showing that in the supernatural order we are all brothers and sisters in Him, and with Christ we share a common Mother in the supernatural order. During the time of Jesus the use of the word brethren was used to describe cousins and other relatives.
"And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it." Saint Luke 11:27-28
The previous 2 scripture passages seem to downplay the Blessed Virgin Mary but on the contrary, they honor her in the sense that NO ONE did the will of God the Father and heard the word of God and kept the word more perfectly than the Blessed Mother did. Our Lord is affirming that what made Our Lady so great was not only the fact that she was His Mother, but also in the fact that she heard His word and kept it so perfectly. The following 3 scripture passages give support to this truth.
"But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart." Saint Luke 2:19 "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE WORDS IN HER HEART." Saint Luke 2:51 The Blessed Virgin Mary kept all of the words of Christ in her heart more than anyone else, because of her virtues and being fully united with her Son in grace for 33 years. "And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; BE IT DONE TO ME ACCORDING TO THY WORD..." Saint Luke 1:38
It is our obligation to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary and call her Blessed.
"And she cried out with a loud voice, and said : Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb." Saint Luke 1:42 "Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed." Saint Luke 1:48
In short, Mary is the CoRedemptrix with Jesus, the Mediatrix of all graces, and our Advocate with Jesus.
"The Mystical City of God"(Revelations on the Life of Mary dictated by The Blessed Virgin Mary herself, and approved by countless Theologians) by Venerable Mary of Agreda, Following the Institution of the Most Blessed Sacrament(The Last Supper) Jesus said to Mary "My Mother, I will be with thee in thy affliction. Let US accomplish the will of the Eternal Father and the Salvation of the world ... The incarnate Word said: 'To my true and natural Mother belong all the creatures which were created and redeemed by Me; and of all things over which I am King, She too shall be the legitimate and supreme Queen.' The Holy Ghost said: 'Since She is called my beloved and chosen Spouse, She deserves to be crowned as Queen for all eternity.' ...'My sweetest children, I[Jesus] am about to ascend to my Father, from whose bosom I descended in order to rescue and save men. I leave with you in my stead my own Mother as your Protectress, Consoler and Advocate, and as your Mother, whom you are to hear and obey in all things. Just as I have told you, that HE WHO SEES ME SEES MY FATHER, and HE WHO KNOWS ME, KNOWS ALSO HIM; so I now tell you, that HE WHO KNOWS MY MOTHER, KNOWS ME; HE WHO HEARS HER, HEARS ME; and WHO HONORS HER, HONORS ME. All of you shall have Her as your Mother, as your Superior and Head, so shall also your successors. She shall answer doubts, solve your difficulties; in Her, those who seek Me shall always find Me; for I shall remain in Her until the end of the world, and I am in Her now, although you do not understand how.'"
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Full of Grace, (Saint Luke 1:28) has a human nature, body, mind, soul and heart, with no fallen nature nor concupiscence as Eve was before the fall, conceived without original sin, a singular privilege known as the Immaculate Conception(Canticle of Canticles 4:7 "Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is NOT A SPOT in thee."), and with her own personality and a free will who had complete control over her emotions and feelings. Our Lord was like us in all things except sin and likewise the Blessed Mother was like us in all things except sin. Saint Paul speaks in his letter to the Hebrews 2:17, 4:15 "Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren..." "...but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin." Our Lady imitated Our Lord so perfectly that like Him(Saint Luke 4:2), she was also tempted. "After the most holy Virgin had successfully fought these secret temptations and battles, the serpent instituted a new conflict by means of creatures." (The Mystical City of God by Venerable Mary of Agreda, CHAPTER VI. THE TRIALS OF THE QUEEN IN THE TEMPLE AND THE DEATH OF HER PARENTS)
In God free-will is the cause of its own movement because by God's free-will through His Divine Essence and Nature, He moves Himself to act with infinite power, being the First uncaused cause, but not from potentiality to actuality, because in God there exists no potentiality. Our Lady's free-will was and is as closely united with the First uncaused cause and the cause of its own movement as possible because she cooperated fully with God's grace and thus being FULL OF GRACE completely united herself with the Will of God.
Free will is one of the greatest powers of the soul GIVEN by God Himself to Angels and men. Free will is a reflection of the very Essence of God in that it almost self-exists in the Saints. We can not choose to Love God and obey His Commandments unless God gives us the very grace to do so and God can not give that very grace unless we freely choose to cooperate with that grace. Further, we can not choose to cooperate with God's grace without His grace. Free will is a mystery that flows from God's Love and likewise from our love or lack of love back to its author in a CIRCLE, but ultimately ORIGINATES in and from God. Free will as it was meant to be and completely and only fulfilled in the Blessed Virgin Mary is a complete mystery. Acts 17:28 "For in Him we live AND MOVE and are..."
If we do our own will instead of God's Will we enter into an out of control spiral drifting further and further away from the center.
Our Lady's Will can be likened almost to a point with no rotation about itself that orbits a central point in such a manner that the radius is almost zero and one with the central point.
Our Lady's free will was in such complete and total Union with God's that it almost self-existed in Him flowing to and from Him in a circle in which Saint Thomas says that "Existence is the most perfect of all things...".
Our Lord who is a Divine Person with two natures, human and Divine, could not sin and being God does not possess the capability of sinning which is absolutely incompatible and diametrically opposed to the Divine Nature and who had both a Divine Will and a human will. The Blessed Virgin Mary had the capability to sin with a human nature and a human will, like Eve, but remarkably did not!, not even the slightest sin and who suffered indescribable and untold sufferings with Our Lord for our salvation.
Did Our Blessed Mother pronounce any words in Holy Scriptures?
Yes. The Magnificat:
Saint Luke 1:46-55:
And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord.
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Because he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and holy is his name.
And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear him.
He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble.
He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He hath received Israel his servant, being mindful of his mercy.
As he spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and to his seed for ever.