My mum was the greatest person in my life. Her liver gave out on her & I lost her in 2014. Being raised in a strick protestant family, Mary was not really emphasised. The Lord, in His mercy, lead me to the Catholic Church. Yet I was still troubled by what I referred to as that " Mary thing." As I grew in my faith in the beloved Catholic Church, I finally decided I was just going to accept ALL of the Church's teachings even if I didn't understand them. Understanding would come. One night before going to sleep, I told the Lord my decision in prayer. A few days after, I was getting out of bed and a " thought" came to me. It asked:" Do you love your mother?" I answered:" Of course I do, I adore her, she was the most important person in my life." The "thought " asked: " Don't you think Jesus would feel the same way about His mother?" Boom! That settled it for me! Next I bought a book titled " Behold Your Mother." Viva Cristo Rey! Hail Holy Queen!

I have been a practicing Catholic all my 80 years and I am learning soooo much from your videos. I love the way you help us understand the bible more. Thank you!

I love our mother Mary so much, I guess I'll just never understand why people would have that roadblock

Mehn, this is beautiful. Mary is smiling upon Dr Pitre. God Almighty formed you with this purpose: to understand and teach his Truth. Before you were born, he knew you....

I just bought your book on this subject and one for my mom. Loving it so far.

Wonderful as always Dr. Petri...you always leave us hungry for more!

Dr. Pitre mentioned in another video that the reason Protestants believe Catholics worship Mary is because Protestants believe worship to be singing and praying, listening to the sermon at their service, and Catholics pray to, sing about, and homily about Mary. However, Catholics consider worship to be something different, namely that worship involves a sacrifice, and Catholics do not sacrifice to Mary. Dr. Pitre also mentioned in the other video that the Catholic church condemned people as heretics if they worshipped to Mary, and some heretics did this by offering the Eucharist to Mary

I must say that with all we have heard about Our Mother Mary, I'm soooo thankful to be able to have these beautiful thoughts about our Blessed Mother Mary, and also to apply the loving spirit our Almighty Creator Father has given us about her, I feel alot of it we use in our own life toward our birth mother and it gives us a foundation of love for so much more. 🌷😘🙂😊🌷 I love you Mother Mary.

Hail Holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope.

Thank you for this information. It is the hardest topic to talk to non catholics about

I love your videos. Can't stop watching them.

This is wonderful..God bless you Dr Pitre

Hail to Our Queen the Theotokos the Mother of God ...

Speechless! Absolutely loved this!

So wonderful Blessed be GOD forever for His Wonderful Gifts!

Thank u Dr Brant Pitre for the solid explaination..

I Love mother Mary and Jesus

I loved the way you put things. And what I have usually said, in the past, is... I asked them a question. 'Do you usually ask people to pray for you when you need something special?' And then I add, I like to pray to the mother of Jesus and ask her to intercede for us - who best has had his ears than His mother? And now I can add the explanation of the Queen Mother.

God bless you Brant

She's more!! This is wonderful ❤️!

Brilliant - thanks !

Good bless . Message is very clear Amen

Mary is the new ark of the covenant. Everything Mary does culminates in her bringing her children to Jesus.

wow beautiful, like Our Mother Mary..!! we are blessed..!

Thank you for feeding your lambs🙏🏻🐾

Thank you teaching about mary, We love so much mother of mary 🙏

😱 I'm 74 yesterday and now today I know why the Blessed Virgin Mary is my Queen. I alway revired her prayed to her and yes knew she was the Queen of Heaven. But now I know why😊😊😊😊😊😊

This teaching is a bridge so important!

A lovely description of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I want more please Dr. Brant Pitre. You are soooooo good! Thank you so much! God bless you!

Who is She that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array?

As a catholic.. I LOVE MARY Thanks for sharing us 🙏🙏🙏

Wonderful understanding of the position...does anyone cover the 'protestant objection' (I think that's what it's called, or fear) of invoking the dead? For example; praying to Saints. The explanation of/answer to "why it isn't necromancy" is I guess what I'm looking for. When Praying to Saints cones up in RCIA I will ask if I haven't found the answer by that time. Praying and attending daily mass, learning rosary. Have had sweet little miracles already. I know they are consolation and can be held back for our purification. And that devil's are deceitful. I was mormon sinner 36 yrs and had been Bible believing Christian sinner 15 yrs when this deeper part of my journey became available and appealing. I know Christians are under attack and that the church needs prayer warriors. Praying daily, unceasingly, in private and with fellow believers, for our families, friends, the persecuted, the addicted, victims, the tempted, the sick, burdened with grief and our loved ones gone ahead, the lost, the forgotten and the remembered and in fact the whole world..praying together for the whole 🌎... Worldwide body of Christ in like minded adoration, celebration, worship, instruction in gospel readings from the Bible, homily and music and the partaking of the Holy Eucharist. I've learned to bend the knees, and focus, and to sit nearly still in a Pew teehee ☺ much of my issues were actually due to my lack ability to achieve self discipline. It feels like becoming Catholic is a mature and wise way to grow up To begin the tasks of mastering virtue, piety and education & with the help of the Holy Spirit becoming an actual saint. What could be more beautiful? Aspiring to live in heaven as a royal citizen, learning and practicing heavenly attitudes of love and pure 😂 joy! What loftier goal could there be? 🙏With God nothing shall be impossible✨👑

Holy mother of God pray for us amen 🙏

I love my faith catholic.

A Christian life's journey goes out hand in hand very much along with Mary and not only sometimes but in every step...Just as during the Israelite's journey to their promised land, the Ark of the Covenant goes before them. The Ark of the Covenant was like a key to their promised land because when people carrying the Ark touched the Jordan river the river parted giving their way to their promised land.

Clear and Bold, vise versa evidence from Old to New Testament. We just need to humbly ask God for holy spirit to open our hearts to understand the mystery of faith and his will. God bless us 🙏🙏

the glory cloud came down on Moses and made him "mediator". That same glory cloud came down on Mary, and with being a 'queen' as well, leads to an understanding of her as "Mediatrix". When "of all graces" is added, that is more a description of Jesus than a description of Mary. imho

Mark 3:31-35 KJVS [31] There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him. [32] And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. [33] And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? [34] And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! [35] For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. Mary was blessed among woman because she was our Lord’s mother in the flesh. But the above scriptures would seem to indicate that she holds no special place in the kingdom of God above the other Saints of God.

Thank you for the teaching. So it's mostly a cultural thing setting? That's still tough.

Absolutely AMEN brother 👏🙏♥️

I love blessed mother.

Mary had interceded for the family that had shortage of wine at Cana. Jesus asked why her human concern should be His. The mention that his hour has not come, is to tell Mary to wait till He is made a king at calvary and after that she can intercede as Queen Mother. After the wedding at Cana, Mary never spoke again. The proclamation, INRI nailed on the top of the cross was not a coincidence but a divine plan. Jesus' word: "Woman, this is your son." is dedication of Mary as mother of humanity. She is now ready to intercede for humanity's spiritual need and not for physical need as was the case at Cana. So when His hour came, Jesus did give us a mother.

Salve Regina

Wowwwwww

No apostles have ever said this in any letter

where is part two??

Mary Smith... in reply. l validate your questions, even some of us Catholics want to know the answers to your questions. One question l will try and answer the best l can. In the Bible you probably notice as soon as the adult Jesus starts his evangelization of humanity, Mary his Mother, recedes into the background, and is not mentioned until his crucifixion. This is also when he starts to reveal himself as God.. his mother removes herself, because he is God...she knows all these things.. She gives honour, and importance to him and not herself, by not appearing. Christ takes centre stage and must do what he was born to do. Christ created his own mother to be born through Her. In the Acts, Mary had died by then, the Word of God was given to the Apostles...She Mary carried the Word of God in her womb... she carried the Bible in her womb...she knew what was to happen and why... because the Arch Angel announced to her and asked her would she carry God in her womb...with her free will replied "Yes" saving humanity...if she had said No, humanity would have no salvation... because Christ would be not be crucified, and no Resurrection. It wasn't for her to spread the faith... The Apostles mere men needed converting... man had to spread the Word of God... not Mary. God through men came to set up his Church on earth, that is connected to God in Heaven. The Gospels hadn't all been written while Mary, was alive. Mary was in the upper room with the Apostles on Pentecost, she became Mother of the Church that day, and was given power to spread the word of God, same as the Apostles received the same power from the Holy Spirit. Again Mary is not heard of, in the rest of the Bible, until her death. This does not mean she did nothing. She took second place, first place was given to the 12 men. We in the Catholic Church realize her " humility" . John the Apostle finished writing the Gospel of John... approx. around year 80AD ? Most of the New Testament was written after Mary's death... not sure on that one? Our faith rested on 12 men. How did they spread it without a book... it was word by mouth. You see Mary, there was no Bible yet...Jesus was the living Bible. Because Jesus came to set up his Church and not the Bible... that came later. The Church means people... Christ came to reveal himself to his people, to you and l. Today we have him in Bible form. The Catholic Catechism came out of the Bible. Mary His Mother, opened the way at the wedding feast in Cana, for her Son to begin his suffering...the first miracle took place. She willed his suffering...Jesus even got her permission to start his road of suffering.. she gave her approval aT that wedding and then. Jesus asked her 'are you ready for your suffering'...she suffered everything with her Son...but internally. Go to your Bible and read this event and just sit with and let the word of God speak to you, and perhaps read it again... see what the Holy Spirit is telling you. She even helped him to get on the Cross at Calvary... She willed it... for the salvation of humanity. What would you have done in her place?

Hello Doctor. Do you think that I can be saved and right with the Lord God Almighty if I never pray or have any devotion to Mary? If I only believe in Jesus and his Word? ...“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” Acts 16:30‭-‬31 I've been studying the Word of God for the past 45 years and I've noticed that neither Jesus not Paul nor Peter never mentioned anything about praying or having a devotion to Mary. Is it possible that they didn't know?

We should pray to our mother and father.

if you read from luke 52 yeah it says about "exalted the lowly" but giving it context (what he has took out) shes is giving God glory for what he 'does/has done for there people, not has done for her. She talks about rejoicing the lord in 47 and from then on talks about God. Not about her becoming a queen. The very next, luke 53 talks about feeding. If we are to take it like hes saying, are we saying the lord fed her after leaving baby jesus? This is why i will always say, keep a bible close to you when you listen to this stuff and read all of it in context.

Another excellent instruction by Dr. Pitre!

I really like this guy he has very simple explanations about faith all from the bible 👍🏻 But im personally not as interested in how to defend Chatolic faith to protestants, but how to defend our faith using tradition and counciles (not Bible) for Orthodox Christians ? Thank you 🙏🏻😊

We Christian's of this world 🌎 love our earthly Mother so much? But feel very hard to accept Mary mother of our Lord Jesus Christ to honour her love her,,so Sad 😢 especially Protestant Christian's....

Matthew 12:46-50 While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. 47 Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.” 48 He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Says exactly how to test this moment in plain words

6th APR 2023.

Clarification needed please! In Scripture it says that Sarah is the mother of us all (Gal 4) So then is Mary our queen and Sarah our mother? If so, how is their role different?

Why do we keep reading the asv if the translates so poor?

Whenever I read the comments section I wonder if people watched the video they are commenting on. Jesus founded one church. It is the Catholic Church.

1 kings chapter 2 may not be the best example of intercession. Considering right after that Solomon has his brother killed for making the request through the queen mother.

Read 3 Kings 2:13-25. This is the passages recounted in this video, but he fails to mention that what Queen Bethsabee requested was denied. Not only denied, but King Solomon put to death Adonias. Unlike the teaching of the Catholic Church which teaches that Jesus does not deny his mother anything.

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Many protestants do beautiful preaches about many women in the Bible sauf Mary. Very strange to me!

CHRIST IS MORE THAN ENOUGH. . .

11:08 So who got knocked off their thrones?

Gebirah Who is this woman with a crown who sits upon a throne? Why does the king still bow to her when he is king alone? His kingdom is her footstool as He now sits beside the mother of the lamb of God, the Holy Spirit Bride Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is there Where Mary is the Gabirah the fairest of the fair The thrones on earth have fallen down The kings have all been slain The man of all perdition comes to cast us all in chains Oh queen come back to bind him restore the Katechon Our Lady Help of Christians come down from the great beyond with glory all around her She's clothed with the Sun Twelve stars adorn her golden crown from the only begotten one Two angels bow before her chair the seat of Mercy sure Oh Mary thou art wonderful the purest of the pure

The video ends as he is going to point to the woman of Revelation, I'm sure.

Question :Angel Gabriel announces' and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David... When did that happen?

Does this not appear a tremendous stretch that varied references to given kings having a mother is a subtle reference to Mary? In this case, why is the only mention of "Queen of Heaven" (in Jeremiah) not addressed?

Isaiah 42:8.

Bathsheba never had the title of queen neither had any of Israel's mothers. However there is a queen of heaven in Jeremiah 7:18 as a false goddess. The magnificat says she had a savior therefore she was a sinner. Another reference to a queen in the Bible is Revelation 18:7. There the Queen is described as a Jezebel. Mass murder is her queendom. In John 2 Jesus addresses Mary as woman, not mother. Why?

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Yup! Im listening to both eastern and western, Catholicism/Orthodoxy to give their explanations as to why they accept and obey they're teachings outside of Holy writ. This is definitely the hardest subject to grasp. Im reading the three treatises that St. John of Damascus wrote back in the 700's about iconoclasm and I'm having a hard time with big questions still left unanswered. I am at a crossroads right now. I can't bare the thought of praying to anyone else besides the Father in Jesus name. Even if I was to become Catholic, for reasons that I'm sure are understood; and I could never trust my children to be alone with anyone, but especially not a Roman Catholic priest. There are so, so, so, so many cases of cover up, scandal and sexual abuse that I believe Roman Catholics today are not aware of, or just choose to ignore. So, it makes it extremely difficult for someone who is seeking the truth to find it. I see truth and falsity in every Christian sect today. But it's hard to trust corruption to dispatch purity.😒

Viva Cristo Rey

I never understood Protestant disrespect towards Mary. It’s kinda sad if you ask me.

Then the king refused her immediately after she asks and kills the guy who tried to use her as an intercessor

Who is father who is son

Read all of what happens in 1 Kings 2. The queen mother does not turn out to be a very effective intercessor! Gets the guy killed, the request is not granted, so I don't see how this is a logical illustration of the point!

Ave Christus Rex. Ave Maria.

To catholics worship is sacrifice pliz quote from tanakh gospels were sacrifice alone is worship It involves Prayer Praises Giving Sacrifices of what? How ee live our life as a n offer to God Also we address confessions prayer praises thanks giving to God Glory honor power blessong wisdom strenghth to the Lamb And glory honor power blessings thaNks giving praises to him who sits on the throne and they prostrate before him. No mention of queen on a throne. Any gospel reader kerps silent at these Mary exra hthings

"A Christian without The Madonna is an orphen"- Pope Fra8

I don’t think the question was answered. So do Catholics worship Mary?

"The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." ---Jeremiah 7:18

search; the gnosis of karol wojtyla, a pillar of morality.

Did Jesus said anything about his mother? To pray to her?... In John 16:23-24, Jesus told us to asked to Father in his name.. not to his human mother.

I wanna start by saying I am not anticatholic but philocatholic. I have big admiration and respect for catholics. Now let me disagree and suggest something: I dont think the queen mother is the very norm. Take the example of Jezabel she was queen mother when Ozias was king and Joram too. But was she queen because she was their mother or because she was the wife of Acab. Surely she was queen when she was married to Acab. I do not remember the mother of Acab being the queen. (Correct me if I am wrong) One could say Jesus was no wife, then we go by the rule of the queen mother. I would say no so fast. He is married to the church and in Revelation 20: 4-6 we have members of the church who will be co-rulers with christ. I think even from a catholic perspective you could argue like that and back up the authority of your bishops and leadership, the rule. Not only they bind and rule because they were metaphisically ordained by Christ to do so but also legal co-rulers with christ by their marriage with him

Are you reading a king James version?? "Hail, O favored one"??? That's what's in KING JAMES Protestant bible's. Though you read 'Full of Grace', catholic version. Why not just get a catholic bible. Or douay Rheims, is best translation for Catholics.

Remember this what would of happen if she had not said I am the hand maid of the Lord The claim she is blessed she is their mother amlso and if they don't believe their not christian s

Look what happened to King Solomon at the end of his life. You see? Now you know what happened when you to it.

How is it possible for some people and Christian sects to thing that CHRIST would DENY His own earthly mother?? If Jesus had poured out all compassion and mercy and love in every aspect of His earthly life to everyone, YET, they claim Jesus didnt respect His mother?? Going against the 10 commandments? And against Gods nature?? Bc He called her WOMAN?? Boy, the mentality of these individuals are warped and blinded. They are definitely limiting Jesus Himself!

Mark 16:19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Ive been all religions the only reason they complain is praying to a statue and a picture I had that same problem as a Catholic when I was younger they don't consider them icons of the church after they've been blessed but I also have a problem with people praying the rosary without full scripture without full scripture your babbling but know this God said this is my beloved son hear listen to him Mary said whatever he says do at the wedding to make the mine Jesus ministry didn't start till she said that that is mother and father saying the same thing and that's to all christian s

Difficult? More like Vitriol

This young girl was hand picked by Almighty GOD. She has a very unique relationship with The Most Holy Trinity. She is a daughter of The Father. She is the spouse of The Holy Spirit. She is the Mother of the second person Jesus Christ. We have to pray for our heretic Protestant brothers and sisters who deny the truths of The Church. They disrespect Jesus’ mother. How can anyone call themselves a Christian and disrespect her? She is Christ’s mother. Jesus adores her! Jesus marvel after her. GOD is not a hypocrite. One of his Commandments is “ Honor your father and your mother.” Jesus honored his mother during his human life, and he honors her now. She has a very unique relationship with The The Most Holy Trinity. We need to pray for our heretical Protestant brothers and sisters. “They do not know what they do.” Sound familiar? Our Blessed Mother is the new Ark of the Covenant, and she is the tabernacle. That is powerful!!!!

if you know the scriptures you can see how he twists the scriptures to point you to Mary and not to Christ that the entire new testament is about .Focus your eyes on the author and finisher of your faith not on Mary the mortal mother of Jesus.

The angels said, "O Mary, GOD gives you good news: a Word from Him whose name is 'The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary.' He will be prominent in this life and in the Hereafter, and one of those closest to Me. 💄👙Figure the Cost 👰🤰🤱 25-27 ... Jesus turned and told them, 🔍“Anyone who comes to me but refuses to let go of father, mother, spouse, children, brothers, sisters-yes, even one’s own self!-🕯🔥💡can’t be my disciple. 🕯🔥💡Anyone who won’t shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can’t be my disciple. Luke 14:25-27 The Message.

1 Kings 2:19- Keep reading, Solomon has Adonijah put to death. Thanks mom.

I don't buy his exegesis (interpretation) here. He's really reaching!

Yeshua of Nazareth, was conceived by the Spirit of God and born of the Jewish virgin, Miriam (Isaiah 7:14). There’s not one single mention of the title of Queen of Earth or Heaven or anything, in reference to Miriam in Scripture. Why go beyond what is written and try to force a narrative that obviously doesn’t exist? If one wants to give that title to Miriam, they do so at the risk of the judgment of El Shaddai. Personally I put my faith in ADONAI Elohim, His Son Yeshua ha-Mashiach, and the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

Only the high priest was allowed to enter into the tabernacle. Mary not so. Miriam challenged Moses authority,god struck her with leprosy. If you want to use old testament types. Adam ruled over his partner. Always been same, the head of the woman was the man.