Queenship of Mary Blessed Virgin Mother of Jesus Explained - You Need to Know! From the Bible, Saints, and Catechism - Feast on August 22
On August 22, is the (feast day) memorial of the Coronation and Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Calling Mary our Queen has roots in Scripture. Mary, the mother of Jesus, is recorded in the bible, the Gospel of Luke, as being "full of grace" and "blessed among women." In Luke chapter 1 verse 48 we read; "For He has looked on the humility of His handmaid; For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed..."
Early Christians honored Mary throughout history and this has been passed on from the Apostles.
She was the mother of God, a title given to her by the early church during the council of Ephesus in the year 431 AD. Mary was the closest person to Jesus on earth and carried Him in her womb for 9 months. At the Annunciation, the Archangel Gabriel announced that Mary’s Son would receive the throne of David and rule forever. At the Visitation, in the Gospel of Luke, Elizabeth calls Mary “mother of my Lord.” In Jewish history, throughout the Old Testament, the mother of the king was considered the queen. In the bible we find the passage of Revelation chapter 11:19 to 12:1, which allude to Mary; (continues below the video)
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"Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars."
Second, Mary is Queen by right of conquest, just as Jesus was King by the same right. Mary shared in her Son’s struggle and victory over Satan—and in doing so, shared in our redemption.
Third, Mary is Queen by grace. She is, as the Archangel Gabriel announced, “full of grace,” surpassed in grace only by Jesus. And fourth, Mary is Queen by the singular choice of the Lord. He chose her, appointed her, and elevated her through the birth of His Son.
In his Encyclical Letter of October 11, 1954, “On the Royal Dignity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Institution of Her Feast,” Pope Pius XII said “Constituted by the Lord as Queen of Heaven and earth, and exalted above all the choirs of Angels and the ranks of the Saints in heaven, standing at the right hand of Her only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, She petitions most powerfully with Her maternal prayers, and obtains what She seeks.” United with her Son, Our Blessed Mother can obtain by her intercession anything that the all-powerful God can do by His own inherent power.
The Catechism explains, in paragraph 966, "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death."
Paragraph 970 says, "Mary's function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power."
Saint Bonaventure said, "She has surpassed the riches of the virgins, the confessors, the martyrs, the apostles, the prophets, the patriarchs, and the angels, for she herself is the first-fruit of the virgins, the mirror of confessors, the rose of martyrs, the ruler of apostles, the oracle of prophets, the daughter of patriarchs, the queen of angels." The next paragraph says, "By her complete adherence to the Father's will, to his Son's redemptive work, and to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary is the Church's model of faith and charity."
Saint Louis Marie de Montfort explained, "Mary has the authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven. As a reward for her great humility, God gave her the power and mission of assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels who fell away through pride. Such is the will of the almighty God who exalts the humble, that the powers of heaven, earth and hell, willingly or unwillingly, must obey the commands of the humble Virgin Mary. For God has made her queen of heaven and earth, leader of his armies, keeper of his treasure, dispenser of his graces, mediatrix on behalf of men, destroyer of his enemies, and faithful associate in his great works and triumphs."
Edited from Source: 365Rosaries Blog
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