Why is the Virgin Mary referred to as the 'Eastern Gate'?

[Robert_Sock]

[focusonjerusalem.com/easterngate(name removed by moderator)rophecy.html](http://focusonjerusalem.com/easterngate(name removed by moderator)rophecy.html)

If the topic interests you, you may want to check out the above site.

For an extensive list of titles for the Virgin Mary interest you, visit the following site.
saints.sqpn.com/titles-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary/

 

[BVMFatima]

Very interesting. Since the Messiah passes through the Eastern gate, Mary is the Eastern Gate of Jesus since he was born from her

 

[Dorothy]

[focusonjerusalem.com/easterngate(name removed by moderator)rophecy.html](http://focusonjerusalem.com/easterngate(name removed by moderator)rophecy.html)

If the topic interests you, you may want to check out the above site.

For an extensive list of titles for the Virgin Mary interest you, visit the following site.
saints.sqpn.com/titles-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary/

The promoters of this site, unfortunately, are not aware that the Virgin Mary is referred to as the Eastern Gate. I pray that someday they will.

In the first paragraph of the first site you gave us it quotes Ezekiel 44:1-3 …

I repeat part of it here: “…This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. It is for the Prince; the Prince!”

That gate refers to Our Blessed Mother’s perpetual virginity. “…no man shall enter in by it…”

 

[CountrySteve]

Wow, The Blessed Virgin has a lot of titles

 

[MarcoPolo]

As well, Mary is the figure of the Garden of Eden, the dwelling place of God. Which is why when Adam and Eve fell, they were cast out, and a cherubim angel guarded the eastern gate of the Garden (Gen. 3:24), for the Garden, like Mary, is Immaculate and a place where sin cannot be.

See How the Cherubim Witness to Mary’s Immaculate Conception.

 

[Immacolata]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing, I love to hear of the different titles of Our Lady.