My dear friend in Christ,
Why do you and I have an intellect and “free-will?”
After all, no other creatures of Gods great design have these “Godly attributes.” Might it be because God EXPECTS us to use them?:
Mary’s Assumption is not simply a assumed fact. Luke Chapter 1 26 "In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!”
So using our God given intellect, we understand “full” to mean just that, "full’ as in “no room for any thing else, including sin.” Now can we say the same thing with the same degree of certainity about the great prophet Elijah. No we cannot!
We also know that the Old Testament leads to fulfillment and perfection in the New Testament, because Christ Himself tells us so. Saint Paul explains that we are no longer “under the law,” but rather now we are under “grace.” Jesus Himself tells us that He came “to fulfill the law.”
Bibical facts show indispuitabily that Mary is the “Mother of God,”
can we agree on this point?
Have you had the opportunity to read Exodus Chapter 25:8 “And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. 9 According to all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle,” Verse 11: “And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and without shall you overlay it, and you shall make upon it a molding of gold round about.”
Now why the instruction from our Almighty God for “pure gold.” Why did the gold “have to be” "pure? Why indeed. It “had to be pure because it was to hold the spiritual presence of God.”
Now if God demanded “pure” for His Holy Presence, and God filled Mary with sufficient grace that she
“was full of grace” it is because God could not and would not accept anything less for His very Son!
Simple logic affirms this understanding.
It is no streach of the use of our intellect, that if God cared enough about Mary to select her “to be the Mother of God,” from the beginning of time, that God thought highly enough of Mary to have her impregnated "by the Holy Spirit, who too is God,then we are oviously dealing with a very unique (one of a kind) person, that God choose to honor in a most unique and singular way
Add to this the historically proveable fact that Mary’s grave has never been located. We have King David’s, we know where Moses was burried,we Know where Christ was burried, and we know where Mary lived and died, but we do not know where She was burried, because she was’nt.
She was born without the stain of sin and lived her intire life in complete compliance with God. She is the only “perfect one of the Father.” and He would not allow her to suffer the indingity of bodily coruption. Amen!
Read all of Exodus Chapter twenty-five and then read Luke Chapters one and two.
If God’s expectations for His "ark of the “old” covenant, had to be so special and spectular, how much more would He expect and do for His VERY REAL Presence, in the form of His Son? And would He not bestow singular honors on the Mother of His Son?
There is a issue of “faith” required from all of us. But it need not be “blind faith.” God shows us and tells us, we simply have to humble our wills and listen.
Your asking good questions, but are you really seeking the answers?
You might want to spend a bit more time reading the Catholic Catechism, which can be found on line and down loaded. It even has search capabilities. It answers a great many questions.
God bless you, and Mary our Blessed Mother (thats in the bible too) lead us to Jesus her Son.
Pat Miron
Marian Catecheist
