Not Sold 100%

I'm at the library. I am reading Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God by Scott Hahn. I am very impressed with author's dedication to the Word but I don't know if I'm 100 percent sold on it. Mary was the Ark of the New Covenant. She carried the very essence of Jesus, the Man who would become the Savior of the World. Perhaps Mary was sinless, perhaps she wasn't. I really don't know. I believe that saints are alive, can hear our prayers but the position Mary is placed in the Catholic Church seems to be excessive. I will investigate further in this book.

- Kathryn Rose

Okay So Mary Wins

Okay, so the Bible wins. I believe Mary is the Ark of the Covenant, the Queen of Heaven. She is portrayed in Revelations as Ark of the New Covenant. Scott Hahn wrote it beautifully. He wrote that the Ark of the Covenant has missing for years and years. The Ark in the Old Testament was overlayed with gold and had angels carved onto it. It contained the very Presence of God, Aaron's rod, the 10 Commandments and the shekinah Glory of God. In Revelations 11-12, we read that a woman was clothed with the sun, on her head was the crown of 12 stars (representing the nation of Israel) and she was crying in labor pangs. This Ark that was revealed in Revelations was no other than Mary the Mother of Jesus which makes her the Mother of God. It's so beautiful, so simple. It's very sad that many Protestant Churches no longer reverence her to a higher esteem. In Protestant thinking, she's just a human saint but in Biblical thinking, she is the Mother of God, the New Eve, our Precious Intercessor. How beautiful!

I wish I had studied this sooner.

I love Jesus and I love her Mother now too.