OUR BLESSED MOTHER

THE OTHER 3 DOGMAS

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Mother of God Perpetual Virginity Immaculate Conception

Assumption

MARIAN DOGMAS

Birthgiver of God Title proclaimed at Council of Ephesus

431

Nestorian 429 – Bishop of Constantinople Claimed Mary was mother of Christ, but not the mother of God… not the Theotokos!

MOTHER OF GOD - THEOTOKOS

“Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanual” Isa 7:14

“the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.” Lk 1:35

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law” Gal 4:4

MOTHER OF GOD - SCRIPTURE

“The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.”

Munificentissimus Deus Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII 1 November 1950

THE ASSUMPTION

“The revered mother of God…finally obtained, as the supreme culmination of her privileges, that she should be preserved free from the corruption of the tomb and that, like her own Son, having overcome death, she might be taken up body and soul to the glory of heaven where, as Queen, she sits in splendor at the right hand of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages.

Munificentissimus Deus

Ascended??

THE ASSUMPTION

Enoch Gen 5:24 – “Enoch walked with God, and he was seen no more because God took him” Heb 11:5 – “…taken up so he would not see death”

Elijah 2 Kings 2:1-13 Elijah was taken up to heaven in a fiery chariot

OLD TESTAMENT EXAMPLES

At Jesus’s Death

“The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.”

Matt 27:51-52

NEW TESTAMENT - EXAMPLES

Paul’s Knowledge

“I know someone in Christ…in the body or out of the body I do not know, was caught up to the third heaven.”

2 Cor 12:2

REVELATION 11:19, 12:1-6

Mary, Queen of HeavenMary, Ark of the Covenant

“Those 2 singular privileges bestowed upon the Mother of God stand out in most splendid light… for the greatest possible glorification of her virgin body is the complement…of the absolute innocence of her soul, which was free from all stain…”

~ Pius XII Fulgens Corona 1953

IT IS FITTING!

“Mary ‘remained a virgin in conceiving her Son, a virgin in giving birth to him, a virgin in carrying him, a virgin in nursing him at her breast, always a virgin’ (St. Augustine): with her whole being she is "the handmaid of the Lord" (Lk 1:38).” CCC #510

PERPETUAL VIRGINITY

Martin Luther &John Calvin believed!

Isaiah 7:14 – “Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son…”

Luke 1:34 – “How can this be since

I have no relations with a man?” Perpetual vow of virginity

John 19:26 – Jesus commits Mary the Apostle John

PERPETUAL VIRGINITY

"And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by [St. Anne], saying, ‘Anne! Anne! The Lord has heard your prayer, and you shall conceive and shall bring forth, and your seed shall be spoken of in all the world.’ And Anne said, ‘As the Lord my God lives, if I beget either male or female, I will bring it as a gift to the Lord my God, and it shall minister to him in the holy things all the days of its life.’ . . . And [from the time she was three] Mary was in the temple of the Lord as if she were a dove that dwelt there“ (Pro. of James 4, 7 [A.D. 120])

PROTOEVANGELIUM OF JAMES

1 Cor. 15:25 "For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet."

Phil. 1:10 "so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ."

1 Tim. 6:14 "that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Matt 1:25 – “UNTIL”

“and he knew her not until she gave birth to a son and called his name Jesus."

Adelphoi – Greek for siblings or cousins or brethren Acts 2:29; 3:17; 7:2; 13:15, 26, 38; 22:1; 23:1, 5, 6; and 28:17

Joseph – Widower with kids from previous marriage

SIBLINGS

SINLESSNESS

All have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God. Rom 3:23

Are there any exceptions?Did Jesus sin? (Heb 4:15)Was Jesus a man? (Phil 2:7, John 1:14, Heb 2:7)

Can a baby sin? Mentally handicapped?Are babies and mentally handicapped humans?

Who was the one human that spent the most time with Jesus and knew him best?

“The Whole World Awaits Mary's Reply”On the Annunciation and Mary's fiatSaint Bernard of Clairvaux

Office of Readings for Dec 20Hom. 4, 8-9: Opera omnia,Edit. Cisterc. 4 [1966], 53-54

NO MARY, NO JESUS