Why is Mary QUEEN of heaven and of Earth?

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Why is Mary QUEEN of heaven and of Earth?

Or is this a catholic fable?
 
PJM said:
Why is Mary QUEEN of heaven and of Earth?

Or is this a catholic fable?
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More of a Jewish way of things. Mary had one title to begin with, the Theotokos. In Latin, Mater Dei, the Mother of God. The queen of the Jewish kingdoms were the queen mother. Especially looking at the story of such kings as Solomon who had many wives, the queen of the land was always the mother of the king. Christ being the king of heaven and earth, would have his mother as queen.

Again, this is tied to Mary as the mother of God.
 
If one considers God to be King, then it would only make sense that His daughter, spouse and mother would be Queen
 
“Mary’s queenship has roots in Scripture. At the Annunciation, Gabriel announced that Mary’s Son would receive the throne of David and rule forever. At the Visitation, Elizabeth calls Mary “mother… of my Lord.” As in all the mysteries of Mary’s life, Mary is closely associated with Jesus: Her queenship is a share in Jesus’ kingship. We can also recall that in the Old Testament the mother of the king has great influence in court.”

“In the fourth century St. Ephrem called Mary “Lady” and “Queen.” Later Church fathers and doctors continued to use the title. Hymns of the 11th to 13th centuries address Mary as queen: “Hail, Holy Queen,” “Hail, Queen of Heaven,” “Queen of Heaven.” The Dominican rosary and the Franciscan crown as well as numerous invocations in Mary’s litany celebrate her queenship.”

" In his encyclical To the Queen of Heaven, Pius XII points out that Mary deserves the title because she is Mother of God, because she is closely associated as the New Eve with Jesus’ redemptive work, because of her preeminent perfection and because of her intercessory power."
 
Christ is the final heir of the Throne of David.

For the Davidic kings, their Queen was not their wife, but their mother ( 1 Kings 2:18)

As Solomon placed his mother as Queen, she who sits enthroned at his right hand, so did the subsequent Davidic kings. This was a type, or foreshadowing, of the role Mary would play as the Queen of the new, eternal Kingdom.

As Christ recieved the Throne of David, His forefather, so did Mary recieve the same throne that was reserved for the mother of the King.
 
Mary is Queen of Heaven and Earth in two ways. She is Queen because She is the Mother of the King of Kings, making her a Queen Mother, but she is also a Queen because God gave Her additional power, making Her Queen regent. A Queen Mother only has the honor and title of being a Queen but she doesn’t really have any power. A Queen reagent however DOES have power and can and does exercise it. Queen Elizabeth II is a Queen regent (and in fact, the Parliament of England, before it passes a law still shown it to the Queen and she may or many not accept it. If she doesn’t accept it then the law can’t be passed) while her late mother was Queen in only her titles; she never exercised any power.

And yes, Mary is Queen regent, because if she was only a Queen Mother she wouldn’t have the power by God to give us grace, thereby removing her title as Mediatrix of all grace. We Catholics love her and worship her (worship obviously meaning hyper dulia) not only because she is so perfect and because she is the Mother of God (even though the latter doctrine is the whole reason why we worship her and why she is so good) but when we pray to her, when we ask her to help us we are imploring her help and capacity as Queen of heaven and earth. With her power, she can give us graces whenever she wants; she can drive the devil away from us and lessen our temptations; she can prevent God from punishing us more severely than He would.
 
Disinherited said:
Mary is Queen of Heaven and Earth in two ways. She is Queen because She is the Mother of the King of Kings, making her a Queen Mother, but she is also a Queen because God gave Her additional power, making Her Queen regent. A Queen Mother only has the honor and title of being a Queen but she doesn’t really have any power. A Queen reagent however DOES have power and can and does exercise it. Queen Elizabeth II is a Queen regent (and in fact, the Parliament of England, before it passes a law still shown it to the Queen and she may or many not accept it. If she doesn’t accept it then the law can’t be passed) while her late mother was Queen in only her titles; she never exercised any power.

And yes, Mary is Queen regent, because if she was only a Queen Mother she wouldn’t have the power by God to give us grace, thereby removing her title as Mediatrix of all grace. We Catholics love her and worship her (worship obviously meaning hyper dulia) not only because she is so perfect and because she is the Mother of God (even though the latter doctrine is the whole reason why we worship her and why she is so good) but when we pray to her, when we ask her to help us we are imploring her help and capacity as Queen of heaven and earth. With her power, she can give us graces whenever she wants; she can drive the devil away from us and lessen our temptations; she can prevent God from punishing us more severely than He would.
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The word you are seeking is “venerate”, not “worship”. We venerate Blessed Mary in a special way (hyperdulia) ; we worship God.

(I know you meant “venerate” but the post will confuse some Protestants reading it so I thought I would jump in here and add this for you.)

God bless you.
 
Tradition says she is. So does Scripture. See Revelation 12:1.

God bless.
 
ConstantineTG said:
More of a Jewish way of things. Mary had one title to begin with, the Theotokos. In Latin, Mater Dei, the Mother of God. The queen of the Jewish kingdoms were the queen mother. Especially looking at the story of such kings as Solomon who had many wives, the queen of the land was always the mother of the king. Christ being the king of heaven and earth, would have his mother as queen.

Again, this is tied to Mary as the mother of God.
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This is completely true! Also, in revelation, it depicts a woman who bears a child. This child gets swept up by God and protected from the dragon who wants to devour the child after his birth. It depict her as clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars. Revelation Chapter 12
 
Plus the fact that she is mother and Queen does not in any way make her equivalent to her son. Mary is no goddess.

To take a slightly similar case, consider King Solomon and his mother, Queen Bathsheba. While they were both human beings, not a divine son and a created, human mother, King Solomon, scripture tells us, had a wisdom so great that there has never been a person with such wisdom, before or since. So at least in one attribute, he was far above his mother. . .but nobody said, “Gee, Sol, since you’re so smart, your mother must be just as wise as you, since you’re the King and she’s the Queen, right?”

No, Bathsheba didn’t need “the wisdom of Solomon” to be “Queen”. She needed to be only what she was. . .the mother of the King.

And Mary is the mother of the Eternal King.
 
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Christ is the final heir of the Throne of David.

For the Davidic kings, their Queen was not their wife, but their mother ( 1 Kings 2:18)

As Solomon placed his mother as Queen, she who sits enthroned at his right hand, so did the subsequent Davidic kings. This was a type, or foreshadowing, of the role Mary would play as the Queen of the new, eternal Kingdom.

As Christ recieved the Throne of David, His forefather, so did Mary recieve the same throne that was reserved for the mother of the King.
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I’ll add to it Brendan’s perfect post about how the Bible shows us Mary’s queenship. .

Throughout the Old Testament we have the image of the “Queen Mother” - “Gebirah” in Hebrew. For reference, the word Gebirah appears 15 times in the Hebrew Old Testament.

A common practice among military allies in the Old Testament was for the kings to exchange daughters. Each king would take the daughter of his ally as a wife and this arrangement really made perfect sense. Each king would have a close family member in the royal court of his ally, able to report back news of what was happening to ensure that the allience was on the up-and-up. But each king would be loath to promote the daughter of the another king to the position of queen as this would have given tremendous power to an ally who might some day become a rival. This is why kings would often promote their own mother to the position of queen. The Queen Mother was known as the “Gebirah,” the most famous of which is Bathsheba.

Then Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, and the king stood up to meet her and paid her homage. Then he sat down upon his throne, and a throne was provided for the king’s mother, who sat at his right. (1 Kings 2:19 NAB)

Bathsheba clearly sits on a throne, a sign that she held the official title of Gebirah for Solomon’s kingdom. 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles gives the name of every Queen Mother of both the northern nation of Israel and the Southern nation of Judah during the divided kingdom.

*In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah; he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother was named Micaiah, daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. (2 Chronicles 13:1-2 NAB)

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, daughter of Omri. (2 Chronicles 22:2 NAB)*

…and so forth. In the story of Solomon and his Gebirah Bathsheba, we see the absolute repsect and reverence given to the king. Due to his magesty and power, ordinary citizens, and even close family members were not deemed worthy to go to the king directly. In some circumstances, the king’s power was so esteemed that even a wife of the king would be put to death if she approached the king without permission. This led to the practice of the Queen Mother fielding requests on behalf of the king and then bringing those requests which she deemed worthy to the king for consideration herself.

Adonijah, son of Haggith, came to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon. “Do you come in peace?” she asked. “In peace,” he answered, and he added, “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.” … He said, “Please ask King Solomon, who will not refuse you, to give me Abishag the Shunamite to be my wife.” Bathsheba replied, “Very well, I will speak to the king for you.” (1 Kings 2:13-4,16-18)

And this practice was not limited to Israel. England still has a Queen Mother to this day.

Unlike David, Solomon, and the other monarchs of the Old Testament, Jesus was not viewed by the ordinary Jew of his time as a king. At several points they tried to make him king but Jesus distained the title of King and went to great lengths to avoid being seen as a temporal ruler.

When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, "This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world." Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone. (John 6:14-15)

It wasn’t unitl Jesus’ trimphant entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday that he willingly took on the exterior appearance of a king - riding on a donkey, palm branches, etc - which were customary for a king. In hindsight, we clearly see Jesus as King of kings and Lord of lords and scripture tells us that much. And if Jesus is a king, then Mary is the Gebirah, That much is also clear from scripture.

Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm. A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. (Revelation 11:19, 12:1-2)

Jesus is the fullfillment of the Old Testament Kings and Mary is the Gebirah, with very real authority and power by virtue of her son’s kingship.

Pope Pius XII made Mary’s Queenship dogma of the Church. Reference Ad Caeli Reginam.

-Tim-
 
O Mary, Virgin most powerful and Mother of mercy, Queen of Heaven and Refuge of sinners, we consecrate ourselves to thine Immaculate Heart.

We consecrate to thee our very being and our whole life; all that we have, all that we love, all that we are. To thee we give our bodies, our hearts and our souls; to thee we give our homes, our families, our country.

We desire that all that is in us and around us may belong to thee, and may share in the benefits of thy motherly benediction. And that this act of consecration may be truly efficacious and lasting, we renew this day at thy feet the promises of our Baptism and our first Holy Communion.

We pledge ourselves to profess courageously and at all times the truths of our holy Faith, and to live as befits Catholics who are duly submissive to all the directions of the Pope and the Bishops in communion with him.

We pledge ourselves to keep the commandments of God and His Church, in particular to keep holy the Lord’s Day.

We likewise pledge ourselves to make the consoling practices of the Christian religion, and above all, Holy Communion, an integral part of our lives, in so far as we shall be able so to do.

Finally, we promise thee, O glorious Mother of God and loving Mother of men, to devote ourselves whole-heartedly to the service of thy blessed cult, in order to hasten and assure, through the sovereignty of thine Immaculate Heart, the coming of the kingdom of the Sacred Heart of thine adorable Son, in our own hearts and in those of all men, in our country and in all the world, as in heaven. so on earth. Amen.

Read more: ewtn.com/devotionals/prayers/Consecration_mary.htm#ixzz1VuDW4CVU
 
=Tantum ergo;8281289]Plus the fact that she is mother and Queen does not in any way make her equivalent to her son. Mary is no goddess.

To take a slightly similar case, consider King Solomon and his mother, Queen Bathsheba. While they were both human beings, not a divine son and a created, human mother, King Solomon, scripture tells us, had a wisdom so great that there has never been a person with such wisdom, before or since. So at least in one attribute, he was far above his mother. . .but nobody said, “Gee, Sol, since you’re so smart, your mother must be just as wise as you, since you’re the King and she’s the Queen, right?”

No, Bathsheba didn’t need “the wisdom of Solomon” to be “Queen”. She needed to be only what she was. . .the mother of the King.

And Mary is the mother of the Eternal King.
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😃 Awesome post! Thank you,

Pat
 
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