I am a Protestant and am often met with condescension and rudeness when I ask questions about Mary. Thank you for taking the time to refer to scripture and answer in an informed and logical way.

Oh I don't Know Maybe Because She Is the Mother Of My lord Mary is the only person that can say Jesus, flesh of my flesh. Bone of my bone. And that is VERY special👍👍

Blessed Mother Mary, please pray for the Protestants.

It was almost 20 years ago when I began my journey out of protestantism and learning about these scriptural references, seeing the dots which I had somehow never been able to connect, were what helped propel me along. Protestant doctrine began to hold less and less water to more I learned Catholic doctrine.

Father Mike Schmitz had an episode where he talked about how, when he was younger and dating, his girlfriend wanted him to meet her mother. Why was that important? Because to know the mother is to know the daughter more intimately. How much more, then, should we strive to know Mother Mary?

“All generations will call me blessed.” Luke 1:48 It’s right there in the Bible. We’re doing as we’re told to do.

“We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son.” -St. Louis de Montfort

May God bless you with profound wisdom of God to unravel the truth about the divisions in the world today.

This was a fantastic video. Thank you Joe!❤

Have to rewatch ❤ Enjoyed so much!

Huge fan of this! Great work, Joe!

Thank you, Jo. That was awesome.

This is fascinating, very well explained

WOW my friend AMAZING VIDEO SO SMART geeeeez this was amazing thank youuuu

Loving this! Thanks Joe🎉

Beautifully done, thank you Joe.

Big thank you for this video and sharing your ideas. I get your point and I coudn't agree more.

Wow, thany you so much, this is just such an awesome and powerful explanation of the role of Mary, our Mother and Queen🙏🙏👐

Brilliant explanation! Thank you!

excellent exposition as always!

Such a fantastic video. God is so good.

Excellently concise!

Very helpful Joe. Many thanks.

Wow , praise be to God and God bless you Joe. You have an amazing gift.

This is excellent 👌

Many times I see in Protestant arguments a kind of zero-sum thinking, in which if we involve works of faith, we take away from the grace of God, if we ask for intercession from the Virgin and the saints, then we take away from Jesus, if We make comments on tradition and teaching, we take away from the written word of the Bible, the Catholic vision is not antagonistic, it does not speak of adding to one and subtracting another, but rather incorporating faith with logic and foundations into a whole, there is not always exclusions or false dichotomies. I understand and admire all the love and zeal that Protestants have for God, that makes them think in those terms of one adds, the other subtracts, but arguments like that are not the answer to everything that happens in the Catholic position.

Amazing content as usual!

Thanks. This is one of the best explanations i have ever heard

Connecting the biblical doctrine weaving is one of the hardest things. Thanks for helping connecting the dots, what a blessing.

Joe is amazing!

This is powerful!!

Thank you Joe!!🙏

Catholics: BOTH/AND Protestants: EITHER/OR

Just listened to this on Spotify. Gotta go back now and take notes. Awesome study of Marian typology!

Am very thankful to you for the clear and convincing teaching.

Love it! Thank you!

WOW WOW WOW!!! The more I learn of the Bible the more I am in awe of our God! No man could have possibly thought of such a powerful, holy and true story made of stories! We are blessed to have the Blessed Mother Mary, and for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I sincerely appreciate you for this video! I have been raised Protestant, but have started learning so much MORE and deeply by Catholics teaching. My soul has always felt a lack by the way I have been taught about the Bible. It has always seemed like a show with dramatics and flare. I would often be left always confused or conflicted. I have really struggled reading and understanding the Bible, my adhd brain just gets so confused. That’s what I love about catholic teachings. You guys have a way of teaching with no dramatics or “fluff”, just clearly and powerfully sharing the word of God in ways my brain can grasp and my soul can feel the power and meaning behind those words. I am very close to deciding to become Catholic, I only have a bit more to find out and search for. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! for helping me to see and feel the power of God’s word and taking the time to show your references and connections I would have never made on my own ❤❤❤ I love and am honored by the Blessed Mother

This was the best, most succinct explanation about Mary’s centrality in Catholicism. Outstanding work, Joe!

Excellent biblical exposition.

Simply amazed❤

It always impresses me how Protestants, but mostly Protestant pastors, who presumably have some theological and exegetical training, don’t understand (or refuse to do so) the typological connection between Our Most Blessed Mother, the redeemed Israel and the Church triumphant. If one misses Mary as what bridges the other two in the history of salvation, he entirely misses the operativeness of God’s promises to Israel and he misses that redemption is not the mere overcoming of the ruptured order of sin, but the reversal of it (Genesis 3, 15), or the biblical story would come to lack a lot of connection dots, because God’s “Logos”, which is God himself, willed so from all eternity. As we know from St Gregory Nazianzen, “quod non est assumptum, non est sanatum” (cf. S. Gregorii Nazianzeni “Ep. 101 ad Cledon”), therefore God assumed a human nature - in that very womb - to redeem it. Whatever was not assumed, was not redeemed. And he did it with and to that woman. In this particular exegetical and theological field, the reason Protestants invariably get this connection wrong is because, for ecclesiological motives (built into the revolution’s pretexts), their understandings concerning Israel and its history of battles and struggles with sin is excessively “carnal” and their understandings concerning the Church is excessively “spiritual” - or Gnostic (the ecclesiology of “invisibility” defended by Luther, Calvin and tutti quanti). The antidote for it is accepting the Marian dogmas with docility, which can and will “spiritualize” Israel in the biblical sense and make truly meaningful the descriptive binomial “Heavenly Jerusalem”, and to “incarnate” or “make it truly Incarnational” the Church to all of its consequences - not to a mere cherry picking of some. In other words: “de-Gnostify” Protestant theology is the way to get there. For me the greatest biblical parallel reference for Our Mother is as the “Daughter of Zion”, which is the epithet for the city of Jerusalem, which is over Mount Zion. “Hail” is to greet with enthusiasm and joy. It is the translation from the original Greek word “Χαῖρε”, which means literally to greet with both joy and respect. It is EXACTLY the same word used in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament of ancient times that the Apostles and early Christians used) in a lot of passages in which God salutes the “Daughter of Zion”. In Latin this greeting was translated to “Ave” as we see in the Vulgate of St Jerome, the first Bible (OT and NT) ever translated from their originals. What impresses is the core parallels (I am so sorry that many non-Catholics simply miss those) just starting with the word “Hail” that can be made between the first chapter of St Luke’s Gospel and a prophecy in the book Zephaniah: it reveals, in one of the many typologies applied to her, the “Daughter of Zion” is a type of Mary (type-antitype is the theme for typology, obviously) from which Our Savior would come to us. She is not strictly associated with the earthly city of Jerusalem (situated on Mount Zion in Israel) since the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, but to the Heavenly Jerusalem (!), which was the promise for Zion. Mary, among many other mysteries linked to her, is a kind of prototype of the Church Triumphant. Once one gets to that then it comes clearer the true meanings of Revelation 12, identifying that pregnant woman with the crown from whom came to birth the One eternal king, a male child who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter, she who is the mother of all those who give testimony to her Son, Jesus (Revelation 12, 17). Then you see the interpolation of the titles “Mater Dei” (Mother of God) and “Mater Ecclesiae” (Mother of the Church). Mary is therefore the inter-testamentary point of connection; she is the bridge that connects Israel (OT) and the Church (NT) in indissolubility. So Israel recovered from its infidelity (1), Mary (2) and the Church realized in celestial joy (3): the three are intertwined necessarily. Throw away one of the three and the story of our salvation wouldn’t be shown at its fullness. Just take a look at these 3 (three) parallels I would make with that word “Hail”/ “Rejoice” (Χαῖρε) between the Gospel of Luke (1, 28-31) and the book of Zephaniah (3, 14-17). Please check the Greek Bible all you want: ______________________ *1)* _“Rejoice (Χαῖρε), daughter of Zion! (…) Be glad (…)! The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst”_ (Zephaniah 3, 14-15) _“Hail (Χαῖρε), favored one, The LORD is with you”_ (Luke 1, 28). Commentary: Mary and the Daugher of Zion are greeted exactly with the same word of joy and respect (= ‘hail’ or rejoice). The reason for this specific joy is the Lord being with/in the midst of them. _____________________ *2)* _“(…) Do not fear, Zion, do not be discouraged”_ (Zepheniah 3, 16) “(…) _Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God”_ (Luke 1, 30) Commentary: Both Mary and Zion are called for a mission and must not be afraid to face it. ______________________ *3)* _“The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior (…)”_ (Zephaniah 3, 17) _“Behold, you will conceive in your womb (…) and you shall name him Jesus”_ (Luke 1, 31). Commentary: Jesus is announced to be prophetically in the ‘midst’/in the womb of the Daughter of Zion/Mary. Literally, the name “Jesus” (Yəhôšua in Hebrew) means “Yahweh saves”; He is nothing but the promised savior. ______________________ I really hope this is more for food for spiritual thoughts. God bless you all!

Why? Because I think she's pretty neat!

You nailed it!!!!!

The picture is by Velázquez. It is incredibly beauty. A joy to watch in the Prado museum.

This video is one of the best teachings on Mary. Definitely worth watching again and again! Blessings to you.

Very good. The catholic churches are closing in Québec. We could need your book on the Eucharist in french.

Thanks for this wonderful, comprehensive Mariology video. Keep it up!! God bless your work!

Love it!

Because she is the mother of OUR Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! 🤍✨✝️🤍

Another great and in-depth video, Joe. Love your content, especially for someone new to Catholicism. Are there any books you recommend for someone new like me? I have no opposition nor disagreement towards anything of the Catholic faith, just falling more in love with it. Thank you.

Awesome!

❤Wonderful light into Mother Mary in the history of Salvation.

Dear Joe This was an amazing lecture! First of all, I love our dearest Mother, and it always amazes me to hear about her typographies throughout scripture. But the words at the end also helped me put my situation in perspective. There is a huge battle at my parish going on, and to my surprise, God seems to place me in this battle and even removes people so I can get in position. This really confused me, since I'm really just a woman with a wounded heart, that is actually very bad at fighting and conflict. But now it makes sense. If He defeats schemers through a weak individual like me, the humiliation is enormous. And that is... that is amazing and wonderful. And it gives me hope! Thankjyou for all you do!

THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TO SEE THIS VIDEO 🙏🏻

Joe ,you have a wonderful gift . Thank you for sharing. Also. Our blessed mother is the only human that could say while pregnant or nursing. "Take eat this my body given up for you. "

Wow! Thanks for the great explanation for how we should understand The Blessed Mother's place in our faith. Thank GOD for the well educated Catholic apologists that are helping us know and understand our faith so that we can share why we should believe what we believe and also to defend JESUS's true church.

Humility crushes pride. Mary crushes satan. Humility pleases Our Lord. He detests pride. Mary is the ideal instrument of His will. Joe thank you for instructing us in our beautiful faith. God reveals Himself in so many thoughtful and surprising ways. We truly benefit from your scholarship.

Incredible!! Hail Holy Queen. Great explanation.

Thank you

Love these recent episodes! I’d caution not to bring up new concepts. Before the conclusion you didn’t really articulate the Queenship of Mary, but I’m just being cautious for our Protestant viewers. This was fantastic.

Yeah, the worst thing I've done as a husband is getting close to my wife's mother and the rest of her family. Sheesh. Getting to know the Theotokos and the saints dramatically improved my understanding and relationship with our Lord. As a Protestant for much of my life (now EO), my view of Mary was more about being as non-Catholic as possible.

Excellent video and well presented ❤ Mother Mary, please intercede for us Thank you Lord for giving us our Mother. Praise the Lord!!

Interesting that God said the serpent's head will be crushed by the seed of the woman...and in abortion the seed of a woman has it's head crushed. Not that there's a direct connection but I know Satan likely loves abortion and I heard "head crushing" so many times during this video I couldn't help but think of abortion 😕 Great video, very informative 👍🏻

This video deepens my understanding about Marian doctrine!

Catholics tend to view themselves as the offspring of Mary, since she is the mother of the church. Yet, in Revelations, the dragon went off to make war of the rest of her offspring who "keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus." This is pretty much the same as saying Protestants, who often have disdain for Mary, are not her offspring and od not keep God's commandments nor bear testimony to Jesus --- especially where the Eucharist is concerned. How far the protestants keep falling away, especially when one considers that Luther, Calvin and Zwingli had strong love and devotion to Mary.

Go team Mary!!

Very astute Mr. Heschmeyer! When talking about Mary and/or Jesus crushing the head of Satan, and using the various analogies you did, eg. Jesus or the servants turning the water into wine, Michaelangelo or his paintbrushes, the fundamental categories are God (uncreated) and a created being (servants, paintbrushes, Mary). Excellent, and thank you!

Thank you for these last two episodes. I think you’ve done excellently in both. As a recent revert who has had to ask these questions (and arrived at the compelling conclusions you draw here), I think a keystone in my understanding of Mary (and even ecclesiology), is how the earliest Christians (including St. Paul, eg Galatians, 1 Corinthians 10, not to mention the hermeneutical lens of the author of Hebrews, all following Jesus, particularly in Luke 24, and the “Acts of the 40 days” between his resurrection and ascension) are capturing the New Covenant TYPOLOGICAL fulfillment of the Old. Typology does not only apply to Jesus Messiah, but also to Mary, the Church, the Apostles, etc. Perhaps you’ve done it, but I wonder if it might be helpful to do a series of videos on the hermeneutics/exegesis of the early Church? As an example of how it could be fruitful even in this episode: the woman can be both Eve AND Mary AND the Church (here I’m thinking of Revelation 12 // John 19) and that does not detract from either. Both can be fulfilled, “filled up” with each and the other. Like how you said about the paintbrush and painter. Agency, instrumentality, can be shared - especially as we consider Eve, Mary’s, and the Church’s mystical union as the Body with Christ the Head. Thank you for your ministry!!

Fundamentalist protestants have beliefs about salvation that if kept prevent them from getting close to Mary.

I choose Team Mary 😊. Queen of the Angels 😇. My mother and my Queen. Queen of Heaven and earth, by order of God our Father and Creator of the Universe. If she is good for Him, She's good for us ! Thank you Joe for this teaching. May Mary keep you under Her Mantle ❤

Awesome

"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." Isaiah 7:14 (we just have to pay attention to the sign...)

actually, the one I like is Judith 11 verse 17, where we see Mary's answer the way Judith did, but as far as I know we see how holy Mary really is . Judith responds "Your handmaid (same word Mary responds the angel) is indeed a God-fearing woman, serving the God of heaven night and day". Judith was chosen exactly because she was the handmaid of God. Judith later says "I will lead you through the heart of Judea until you come to Jerusalem, and there in its center I will set up your throne." Who in the new testament is the handmaid of the lord, and will set up a throne?"

"Through Eve yet virgin came death; through a virgin, or rather from a virgin, must the Life appear: that as the serpent beguiled the one, so to the other Gabriel might bring good tidings." Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Letter 12, 15.

Very Good teaching, we must remember too that the Ark if the Covenant was not worshipped and when Aron sons thought that they could use it how they thought fit and not according to Gods will and purpose the whole of Israel suffered.

Tremendously great awesome video of our Holy And IMMACULATE MOTHER MARY,for everything that you have presented is true to THE T.For indeed our Holy Mother did carry the Arch Of the Covenant in her Immaculate Womb,and to me she also carried the Eucharist also.Please correct me if I’m wrong,I’d appreciate your feedback back thank you 🙏 🐑🕊️✨🌈

#TeamMary

We honor Mary for what she did shouldn’t we all. Everything that is said about her is a reflection of her son Jesus Christ.

Because she is the mother of Lord Jesus Christ & she is without any sin,pure . ❤ I adore our Lady 💐

Everyone here should read Fr. James Mawdsley's book "Crushing satan's head". I am not affiliated with him financially, but certainly when it comes to Our Blessed Mother!

Because John the Baptist leaped in Elizabeth's womb at the sound of Mary's voice, and God Incarnate was obedient to her. Good enough reasons for me!

Question? Is your mother special? Jesus mother is our mother and she is special.

Can you help and tell us more about the mother of Mary, St. Anne? That would be helpful. God bless you.

When pregnant Microchimerism. ( new word for me) Microchimerism is defined by the presence of circulating cells, bidirectionally transferred from one genetically distinct individual to another. It can occur either physiologically during pregnancy or iatrogenically after blood transfusion and organ transplants. Just think what this means for Mary and Jesus ! ❤️ “When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called “fetal-maternal microchimerism”.⁠ For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades. Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too. Even if a pregnancy doesn't go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream. Research has shown that if a mother's heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart. The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby. How cool is that? This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant. It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects & rebuilds the mother back - so that the baby can develop safely and survive. Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave? Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mothers brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?” If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there….Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them. I find this to be so very beautiful. This research is belongs to Hina Chaudhry and her team. Here is the resent article about her and team: 1. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313246 2. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-science-motherhood-180977456/

Probably because Mary and the Holy Spirit had a baby together Who happens to be God in human flesh. He got that human body from Mary. Nobody can claim to be that Blessed before or since.

Our Church needs the 5th Marian Dogma: Our Lady, Mediatrix and CoRedemptrix. A human perfectly united to God and conduit of all graces!

This study is most revealing, I have never heard any Catholic follow the references in the Old Testament to prefigure Our Mother Mary’s Greatest role in Jesus’ ministry.

Hey Joe! Love it. Can you address the argument about the woman being Israel/church/anyone but Mary in Revelation?

I mean, she's the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God. People make a big deal about the British royal family and all they rule is England!

Orthodox honour Mother Mary too.

Also as you said, God is a king he sends his servants, to do his bidding

Mind blown

"I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." Douay-Rheims Gen. 3:15

Maybe I’m delusional, but it seems that Genesis 3:15 is the backdrop of Revelation 12. The woman is at once Mary and the Church inasmuch as she is the mother of Jesus and his mystical body.

Ave Maria

"No Mary, no Jesus " used to say Mother Teresa! Thank You for this video and Your works for the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven....

The most comprehensive study of Our Lady is the 4-volume work called "The Mystical City of God" by St. Mary of Agreda. This book contains the most astonishing data and clears up a thousand difficulties in Scripture. The Blessed Mother mentions the war that Lucifer and his demons wage against humans and the many thousands of years that Lucifer diligently searched the surface of the earth seeking the birth of Christ. He was always deceived and was uncertain until the very moment of the crucifixion. She mentions the unmeasured and indescribable torments of hell, of the hidden warfare against souls, the hatred that he has against Mary since she is a creature yet given such power over him and the other demons, his horrible blasphemies against God at the end of the 24 hour long probation in heaven prior to the fall, his damnation and the long reign of sin, the ordering of the demons into squadrons to bring some order in this chaos of hate. She mentions that she loved St. John more than the other apostles because of his dove like humility and virginity, also the wonderful character of St. Joseph. She describes the desperate effort she made to save the soul of Judas, who actually excelled in the beginning of his calling some of the other apostles, the reason for his gradual fall from grace, the despair of this most unfortunate man and his horrible perdition. She gives the exact dates of the gospels, of the exact number of years that had elapsed since the creation of the world when Christ was born, and many other details. She gives the most excellent advice on the spiritual life. It is the only spiritual book I read. She is Our Lady and, after Christ, the glory of the human race, the one that God chose from all eternity to His mother and who He loves above all creatures. And if God wishes to honor Our Lady, I can only say against those who take issue with it, the words that St. Michael spoke long ago "who is like unto God?"

In all the OT head crushing incidents, the pronunciation of blessedness happens after the head crushing. So, does the same follow with Mary? I'd say yes, just based on the pattern, but also recognizing that Mary's defeat of Satan better parallels Satan's victory over mankind in the Garden of Eden. When Satan murders Adam and Eve, he does so through the temptation, and the death was not immediate although the blow was. When Mary said "yes" to the angel, that was the death blow to the serpent, even though the death would not come until later. It's both by Mary that God crushed the serpent and by the seed that Mary enacts the woman's victory.

Alleluia

is there a worksheet on this?