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Lover of Truth · « **on:** July 16, 2014, 12:12:41 PM »

" 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 as his own" (John 19: 26-27).

Recall the words of Amos above, "mourning of an only son." This is what the Blessed Virgin Mary felt, not only in losing her divine Son, but in mourning for her adopted children - the entire human race. Oh, what sorrow, what a heart that could encompass this and accept God's will that this all be carried out so that these children would have the opportunity of being with her divine Son in Heaven. She understood the heavenly mandate long before man ever conceptualized the impact of her Son's death. The holy Angelic Doctor of the Church Saint Thomas Aquinas writes in his masterful Summa Theologica 3: 30, 1: "She uttered her yes 'in the name of all human nature'." Another Doctor of the Church Saint Irenaeus writes: "In accordance with this design, Mary the Virgin is found obedient, saying, 'Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy world.' But Eve was disobedient; for she did not obey when as yet she was a virgin. And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin . . . having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race; so also did Mary, having a man betrothed (to her), and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself and the whole human race. . . . (And so) the knot of Eve's disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through faith." He also added, "For just as the former was led astray by the word of an angel, so that she fled from God when she had transgressed His word; so did the latter, by an angelic communication, receive the glad tidings that she should sustain (portaret) God, being obedient to His word. And if the former did disobey God, yet the latter was persuaded to be obedient to God, in order that the Virgin Mary might become the Patroness (advocata) of the virgin Eve. And thus, as the human race fell into bondage to death by means of a virgin, so is it rescued by a virgin; virginal disobedience having been balanced in the opposite scale by virginal obedience."

Here we have, as St. Irenaeus states, two Eves, two sinless virgins from the sides of two Adams. Both were approached by heavenly spirits created by God - the fallen angel lucifer in the form of the serpent, and the obedient angel Gabriel as the Archangel announcing to Mary the good news and awaiting her fiat. Here we have the struggle in two gardens under two trees - Eden and the Tree of life, Olivet/Calvary and the Tree of death which would overcome death and forever be the Tree of everlasting life whose roots were planted in the only Church Christ established: the holy Catholic Church upon the rock (petras) of Peter (cf. Matthew 16: 18-19). Here we have the experience of labor of two births, both painless in process but carrying great responsibilities once completed - Eve from the rib of Adam, Mary conceived immaculately whose virginal womb was implanted by the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity to gestate the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity at the will of the First Person of the Blessed Trinity. In both Eve and Mary two humanities were brought about in two creations, with two sinless Adams "born" directly from God. Both experience two deaths because of one sin.

The passage above is in perfect compliance with Mosaic Law for Christ was responsible to assure someone would care for His Mother. Upon His death, a younger brother, if there was one, would have been assigned to care for Mary. But since Christ gave Mary into the care of His beloved disciple, it proved there were no other sons to whom He could have entrusted her. John represents the faithful of the Church He established, and Mary the Mother of the Church.

Lover of Truth · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2014, 12:18:59 PM »

Our Lady also helped give birth the Church at Pentecost:

For the Third Glorious Mystery the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary, I will once again go to the commentaries found in my handy-dandy Douay-Rheims Bible which is an actual copy of the original with the strange typing characters and spelling for all. Please bear with me as I try to translate it into a more readable sequence. The verses italicized are the verses where the commentary found in Rheims is made.

Before I provide the scriptural account in Chapters one and two of the Acts of the Apostles written by Saint Luke the Evangelist, think of being there with the Apostles and the Blessed Mother. We know that she intuitively knew the Holy Ghost was about to manifest Himself to them. Imagine her joy then when the Dove descended. Imagine the Apostles' eyes and hearts when they felt the presence of the very "Spirit of Truth" Jesus had promised them (John 15: 26). Imagine their eyes growing larger as the tongues of fire hovered over each one. Imagine their sense of thrill and chills, and the genuine zeal that followed when they realized they could communicate in languages previously unknown, and truly fulfill our Lord's command in Mark 16: 15-16. Imagine the sense of awe and wonderment by the throngs who saw that these Apostles were speaking in their language as Acts docuмents. Truly there were all kinds of wonders on that day and ever since for the power of the Holy Ghost continues, even in a world, which grows darker by the day in the prince of the world's vice-grip.

Acts 1:13-14 "And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude the brother of James. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brethren."

What follows is even more encompassing in commentary than the standard Comprehensive Catholic Commentary by Father George Leo Haydock, appropriately referred to as the "Haydock Commentary" with the Douay-Rheims Bible comments on Verse 14. I have translated from the Old English into a more readable form, albeit still in some places a form of Old English:

"This is the last mention that is made in Scripture of the blessed Virgin Mary. She lived the rest of her time with the Christians (as here she is particularly named and noted amongst them) and especially with S. John, the apostle, to whom our Lord recommended her. S. John xix 26, 27. She undoubtedly communicated to the evangelists many circuмstances relative to the actions, words, and mysteries of her divine Son."

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #2 on:** September 05, 2014, 06:29:32 AM »

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" 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 as his own" (John 19: 26-27).

Recall the words of Amos above, "mourning of an only son." This is what the Blessed Virgin Mary felt, not only in losing her divine Son, but in mourning for her adopted children - the entire human race. Oh, what sorrow, what a heart that could encompass this and accept God's will that this all be carried out so that these children would have the opportunity of being with her divine Son in Heaven. She understood the heavenly mandate long before man ever conceptualized the impact of her Son's death. The holy Angelic Doctor of the Church Saint Thomas Aquinas writes in his masterful Summa Theologica 3: 30, 1: "She uttered her yes 'in the name of all human nature'." Another Doctor of the Church Saint Irenaeus writes: "In accordance with this design, Mary the Virgin is found obedient, saying, 'Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy world.' But Eve was disobedient; for she did not obey when as yet she was a virgin. And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin . . . having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race; so also did Mary, having a man betrothed (to her), and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself and the whole human race. . . . (And so) the knot of Eve's disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through faith." He also added, "For just as the former was led astray by the word of an angel, so that she fled from God when she had transgressed His word; so did the latter, by an angelic communication, receive the glad tidings that she should sustain (portaret) God, being obedient to His word. And if the former did disobey God, yet the latter was persuaded to be obedient to God, in order that the Virgin Mary might become the Patroness (advocata) of the virgin Eve. And thus, as the human race fell into bondage to death by means of a virgin, so is it rescued by a virgin; virginal disobedience having been balanced in the opposite scale by virginal obedience."

Here we have, as St. Irenaeus states, two Eves, two sinless virgins from the sides of two Adams. Both were approached by heavenly spirits created by God - the fallen angel lucifer in the form of the serpent, and the obedient angel Gabriel as the Archangel announcing to Mary the good news and awaiting her fiat. Here we have the struggle in two gardens under two trees - Eden and the Tree of life, Olivet/Calvary and the Tree of death which would overcome death and forever be the Tree of everlasting life whose roots were planted in the only Church Christ established: the holy Catholic Church upon the rock (petras) of Peter (cf. Matthew 16: 18-19). Here we have the experience of labor of two births, both painless in process but carrying great responsibilities once completed - Eve from the rib of Adam, Mary conceived immaculately whose virginal womb was implanted by the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity to gestate the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity at the will of the First Person of the Blessed Trinity. In both Eve and Mary two humanities were brought about in two creations, with two sinless Adams "born" directly from God. Both experience two deaths because of one sin.

The passage above is in perfect compliance with Mosaic Law for Christ was responsible to assure someone would care for His Mother. Upon His death, a younger brother, if there was one, would have been assigned to care for Mary. But since Christ gave Mary into the care of His beloved disciple, it proved there were no other sons to whom He could have entrusted her. John represents the faithful of the Church He established, and Mary the Mother of the Church.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #3 on:** September 17, 2014, 03:19:33 AM »

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" 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 as his own" (John 19: 26-27).

Recall the words of Amos above, "mourning of an only son." This is what the Blessed Virgin Mary felt, not only in losing her divine Son, but in mourning for her adopted children - the entire human race. Oh, what sorrow, what a heart that could encompass this and accept God's will that this all be carried out so that these children would have the opportunity of being with her divine Son in Heaven. She understood the heavenly mandate long before man ever conceptualized the impact of her Son's death. The holy Angelic Doctor of the Church Saint Thomas Aquinas writes in his masterful Summa Theologica 3: 30, 1: "She uttered her yes 'in the name of all human nature'." Another Doctor of the Church Saint Irenaeus writes: "In accordance with this design, Mary the Virgin is found obedient, saying, 'Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy world.' But Eve was disobedient; for she did not obey when as yet she was a virgin. And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin . . . having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race; so also did Mary, having a man betrothed (to her), and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself and the whole human race. . . . (And so) the knot of Eve's disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through faith." He also added, "For just as the former was led astray by the word of an angel, so that she fled from God when she had transgressed His word; so did the latter, by an angelic communication, receive the glad tidings that she should sustain (portaret) God, being obedient to His word. And if the former did disobey God, yet the latter was persuaded to be obedient to God, in order that the Virgin Mary might become the Patroness (advocata) of the virgin Eve. And thus, as the human race fell into bondage to death by means of a virgin, so is it rescued by a virgin; virginal disobedience having been balanced in the opposite scale by virginal obedience."

Here we have, as St. Irenaeus states, two Eves, two sinless virgins from the sides of two Adams. Both were approached by heavenly spirits created by God - the fallen angel lucifer in the form of the serpent, and the obedient angel Gabriel as the Archangel announcing to Mary the good news and awaiting her fiat. Here we have the struggle in two gardens under two trees - Eden and the Tree of life, Olivet/Calvary and the Tree of death which would overcome death and forever be the Tree of everlasting life whose roots were planted in the only Church Christ established: the holy Catholic Church upon the rock (petras) of Peter (cf. Matthew 16: 18-19). Here we have the experience of labor of two births, both painless in process but carrying great responsibilities once completed - Eve from the rib of Adam, Mary conceived immaculately whose virginal womb was implanted by the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity to gestate the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity at the will of the First Person of the Blessed Trinity. In both Eve and Mary two humanities were brought about in two creations, with two sinless Adams "born" directly from God. Both experience two deaths because of one sin.

The passage above is in perfect compliance with Mosaic Law for Christ was responsible to assure someone would care for His Mother. Upon His death, a younger brother, if there was one, would have been assigned to care for Mary. But since Christ gave Mary into the care of His beloved disciple, it proved there were no other sons to whom He could have entrusted her. John represents the faithful of the Church He established, and Mary the Mother of the Church.

poche · « **Reply #4 on:** September 17, 2014, 05:32:23 AM »

You cannot have Christ as your brother if Mary is not your mother.