BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Mary 
Lk 1:28, 30 - angel: "full of grace, found favor with God 
Lk 1:42 - Elizabeth: "most blessed among women" 
Lk 1:48 - Mary: "all generations will call me blessed" 

Mother of God 
Lk 1:43 - Elizabeth calls her "mother of my Lord" = God 
Mt 1:23 - virgin bear a son, Emmanuel = "God is with us" 
Lk 1:35 - child born will be called holy, the Son of God 
Gal 4:4 - God sent his Son, born of a woman 

The Assumption 
Gn 5:24 (Hb 11:5) - Enoch taken to heaven without dying 
2Kg 2:11 - Elijah assumed into heaven in fiery chariot 
Mt 27:52 - many saints who had fallen asleep were raised 
1Thess 4:17 - caught up to meet the Lord in the air 
1Cor 15:52 - we shall be instantly changed at the last trumpet 
Rom 6:23 - for the wages of sin is death 
Rev 11:19-21 - ark in heaven = woman clothed in sun
Ps 132:8 - Arise, O Lord & go to thy resting place, thou & the ark of thy might 

The Immaculate Conception 
Lk 1:28 - hail full of grace[highly favored] Lord is with you 
Lk 1:30 - you have found favor with God 
Lk 1:37 - for with God nothing shall be impossible 
Gn 3:15 - complete enmity between woman & Satan, sin 
Ex 25:11-21 - ark made of purest gold for God's word 
*Rom 3:23 - all have sinned & are deprived of God's glory 
*Lk 1:47 - my spirit rejoices in God my Savior 

Perpetual Virginity 
Lk 1:34 - how can this be, since I do not know man 
Lk 2:41-51 - age 12, Jesus evidently only son of Mary 
Mk 6:3 - "the son of Mary" not "a son of Mary" 
*Mt 13:55-56 - brothers James, Joseph, Simon & Jude 
Mt 27:56 - Mary the mother of James & Joseph also 
Jn 19:25 - Mary the wife of Clopas 
Jn 19:26 - entrusted Mary to John, not a younger sibling 
Jn 7:3-4 - brothers advise like elders: "go to Judea, manifest self"
unthinkable for younger siblings (see next verse)
Mk 3:21 - set out to seize him, "he is out of his mind" 
*Mt 1:25 - Joseph knew her not until she bore first-born 
Mt 28:20 - I am with you always, until the end of the age 
1Tim 4:13 - until I arrive, attend to reading, teaching... 
1Cor 15:25 - he must reign until has enemies underfoot 
Lk 1:80 - John in desert until day of his manifestation 
Ex 13:2; Nb 3:12 - consecrate first -born that opens womb 
Ex 34:20 - first-born among your sons you shall redeem