Part II Mary Immaculate:
My estimation the following is the clincher
Old Testament Prophecy concerning Mary Most Holy
Genesis 3:15 I will put
enmity(this means total opposition) between
you(Satan) and the
woman(Mary) between your seed(Satan seed the world) and **her seed(the woman-Mary seed is Jesus). **
There is enmity between Mary and Satan and between Jesus and Satan’s seed.
If Mary is not filled with Gods Grace from the moment of conception to death she will never be in total opposition to Satan. If Mary were to be a sinner she could not be at enmity with Satan. Mary’s enmity oposition is spoken as equal to Christ enmity.
Mary Most Holy-Mary Immaculate because she is the Ark of the New Covenant
The
orginal Ark was Holy, not because of the gold which coated the outside, but the Ten Comandment inside- the law that had been inscribed by the finger of God on the tablets of stone. What else was inside? Manna, the miracle bread that fed the people, Aron’s rod that blossomed as a sign of his office as high priest (see Nm 17) What makes the new ark holy? The old Ark contained the word of God written in stone; **Mary contained in her womb the Word of God **Who became man and dwelt among us. The Ark contained manna; **Mary contained the Living bread come down from heaven. **The ark contained the rod of the high priest Aaron;
Mary’s womb contained the eternal high priest, Jesus Christ. In the heavenly temple, the Word of God is Jesus, and the ark in whom he resides is Mary, His mother Rev 12:1……
- "Hail, full of grace
The Fathers and Doctors of the Church “taught that this singular, solemn and
unheard-of-greeting showed that all the divine graces reposed in the Mother of God and that she was adorned with all the gifts of the Holy Spirit”, which meant that she “was never subject to the curse”, that is, was preserved from all sin. (Navarre Commentary
S. Augustine (Serm xviii de Sanctus) says,
“Mary is filled with grace, and Eve is made clear from guilt; the curse of Eve is changed into the blessing of Mary.” Toletus (annotat. 67) shows that the **Blessed Virgin was full of all grace, both in body and soul. For she was free from concupiscence **(fomite concupiscentiæ), so that in her the flesh was subject to the reason and the spirit, as was the case with Adam in Paradise through original righteousness. Wherefore he adds that in her, nature conspired with grace and co-operated with it in every respect. See also what I have said concerning her in the Commentary on the Canticles, especially on those words (c. iv. 7), Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee.
S. Jerome (Serm. de Assump. B.V.) says, “It is well said that she was full of grace, because on others grace is bestowed partially (per partes), but the fulness
of grace in complete treasure was infused into Mary.” And again, “The entire fulness of grace, which is in Christ, came upon Mary, although in a different way.”
Shall overshadow thee. S. Gregory (33 Moral. c. 2) explains thus, “The Word of God in thee will assume a body, which will be as it were a shadow of Deity, for it will as a shadow veil and conceal It.” And again he says (18 Moral 12), “The human body in thee shall receive the incorporeal light of Divinity.” Origen says also that the Body of Christ is called a shadow, because in the Passion it was humiliated and obscured after the manner of a shadow.
S. Ambrose (on Psalm 119) understands by the shadow this present and mortal life which the Spirit gave to Christ, for this is, as it were, a shadow of the true life and of eternity.
S. Augustine (Quæst. V. et N. T. c. 15) says,** The power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, i.e. shall attemper itself to thee, as a shadow adjusts itself to a body, for thy human weakness could not contain the fulness of its force and power. **
But more simply, the meaning is, It will cover thee as with a veil, i.e., will secretly work a mighty operation in thee; for it will be such and so great a one that no man or angel can penetrate into or comprehend it. For, first, it will form in thee the perfect humanity of Christ; and, secondly, it will unite the same in a certain ineffable manner to the Person of the Word.
St. Hippolytus (c. 170-c. 236)
“At that time, the Savior coming from the Virgin**, the Ark, brought forth His own Body into the world from that
Ark**, which was gilded with pure gold within by the Word, and without by the Holy Ghost; so that the truth was shown forth, and the Ark was manifested…And the Savior came into the world bearing the incorruptible Ark, that is to say His own body” (S. Hippolytus, In Dan.vi., Patr. Gr., Tom. 10, p. 648) (Blessed Virgin, p. 77).
indeed
