The 5 Things You Never Knew About the Virgin Mary

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. We thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for His infinite love, mercy, and compassion. There is only one God. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is only one way. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is only one truth.

His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And there is only one life eternal. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory to his holy and mighty name.

Amen. We thank God for our Holy Mother Mary.

Amazing figure, incredible figure in every way, form and shape. When we look at our Holy Mother, we see a mighty school that teaches us so many lessons that are foundational for our salvation and for our redemption, and for our true faith in her beloved son, who is Lord God Almighty revealed in the flesh, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

She is an absolute foundation for our Christian life, for our spiritual life. When we look at the Holy Mother, her entire life is nothing short of a miracle. Only God can perform such a miracle in this beautiful, perfect figure as far.

As humanity is concerned.

The one who is perfect and comes after Jesus Christ is Mary.

And the human race....

Anyone who is born of an earthly parents, father and mother, no one is as perfect as our Holy Mother Mary. Now the Lord Jesus was born of an earthly mother, no earthly father. He is definitely unique beyond all measures. But a person that had two earthly parents, father and mother, To be this perfect, no one comes anywhere near our Holy Mother Mary. She is also very unique in the sense that she is the mother and the virgin at the same time. It is unheard of, never ever had happened in the human race, neither will ever happen for a female to be a mother and still keep her virginity intact. No woman is as such except the Holy Mother Mary. Mother and virgin at the same time. She was virgin before conception. She was virgin after conception. She

was virgin after giving birth. And she is virgin of all virgins for eternities to come. This is the work of God, the will of God, the choice of God. No one can touch that. The Holy Mother lived a life that would not make sense to all of us. From the day she was born till the day she departed from this world around the age of 50, more or less. So she was very young when she left this world. Because her beloved son, who is our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, did not leave her to live after him for too long. Because he knew she won't last.

Not seeing her son before her very eyes. And I'm sure our beloved moms here, they can appreciate the fact that a mother cannot live without her children. And how much more this true mother, this perfect mother, perfect example for every mother. How much more she could not last one second after her son's departure and going to the heaven of all heavens. So she lived around 50 years of age. She was about 50. But her entire life was about one painful moment.

Journey five points.

I will speak about the Holy Mother in five points very briefly I won't take more than 10 hours of your time.

You laughed that means you're still awake number one.

The suffering of the Holy Mother number two The humility slash obedience of the Holy Mother. Number three, the holiness of the Holy Mother. Number four, the influence of the Holy Mother. And number five, the greatness of the Holy Mother. When we come to her suffering from the day she was born till the day she left, I'm not sure how many times she had a small relief. You know, imagine this. Over 2,000 years ago in a Middle Eastern culture and a very difficult culture in the Israelite nation, with all love and respect I'm speaking, but Middle Eastern culture is very different to the Western world. And imagine 2,000 years ago, it was a male-driven culture. The female had no place and no say at all. So imagine this

young girl who was born and then at the age of three, she was offered by her parents as a sacrifice back to God. And she lived 10 years in the temple which King Solomon built. When she was 13 years of age, she had to leave the temple because now she is a mature figure as far as a female is concerned. She had to leave. She could not stay.

In fact, being accepted into the temple was a miracle. It was God's plan from day one. So when she left the temple, her parents had already departed.

From this world.

So this girl, this little flower, she did not understand what the love, the compassion of mom and dad is all about because she never experienced it in her life. That was a big thorn in her life. So when she came out, the parents already gone. And now shortly thereafter, the archangel Gabriel comes to her and he greets her and he says, you are chosen by God. God will come and dwell in you and he'll become man.

She became pregnant.

As far as the human race is concerned, she was pregnant out of wedlock because she was never married. She was only engaged to our father Joseph. Please don't ever try to go there. She was only engaged to our father Joseph. And by the way, when you see some of the movies, being made about the Holy Mother or the Nativity. Sometimes they depict our Father Joseph as a young man falling in love with the Holy Mother. I wish I meet that director. Let me tell you, our father Joseph was a very holy man. And as far as the age is concerned, he would have qualified to be very easily the Holy Mother's father, if not her grandfather.

He was an old man. And the Holy Mother would have been around 14, 15 maximum when the archangel greeted her and she conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit the second person of the Holy Trinity, the Logos, the Word, the Son of God, who is God, who is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory to His holy and mighty name. She was a very young teenager. Now to be pregnant Even our father Joseph doubted the Holy Mother's pregnancy.

And he said, what have you done?

So you could imagine when the Holy Mother would go out to the shops.

And now she's pregnant. It is showing.

The external appearance is showing she's pregnant.

Yet they know she is not married. So you could imagine.

Treat she had till she gave birth to the Lord Jesus. they would have given her hell. And people are not merciful. Their words are more painful than a sword piercing the heart. Yet she remained silent. She remained quiet. And she accepted all that suffering. And now she gave birth to the Lord. And now not only the neighbors are against her son.

The government is against her son. All authorities are against her son. And they want to kill her son. King Herod.

Kings wanted to kill her son.

So she flees to Egypt, the blessed land of Egypt. I shall erect my altar in the heart of Egypt, says the Lord.

And he did.

Till this very day, Egypt is strong in faith.

And I pray always.

She fled to Egypt, three and a half years of pain and sorrows. She comes back after three and a half years to Nazareth of Galilee. She raises her son till the age of 30. Only the Lord knows how much the Holy Mother suffered in raising her beloved son. At the age of 30, he leaves the mom to go to do his father's will.

He starts his ministry to the Lord.

And then three years later, before settling in, And getting used to this new life where her son leaves her for weeks and months and on end. She said, what can I do? This is my life. I know my son is not just for me. He is for the whole world. And then she heard that painful voice saying, your son has been shredded to pieces and he's dragged in the streets of Jerusalem. Covered in his own blood.

The Holy Mother runs crazy. Seeing her only son.

And what a son. The only son. And she knows this son is extremely unique.

He came from heaven. He's not just any son. He is the only son. Seeing him right before her very eyes.

Dying. She stood at his feet. On Golgotha.

At the cross, at the foot of the cross, yet she remained silent. But her heart was pierced, my beloved, so deep, so profound, that she never moved, never veered off, never doubted God, never questioned God, never complained, never whinged, never ever said why to God. Because from the moment the archangel greeted her, she said, let it be to me as your word. For me, the Holy Mother is saying, what is sufficient for me is for the will of God to be done in my life. I don't need to ask for anything else. Let it be the will of God. And whatever that will is, whatever that will brings me, Toward me, suffering, humiliation, degradation, rejection, persecution, let it be. Because I, Mary, never seeked my own personal choices.

I never seeked my own personal plans.

I always lived and seeked the plan of God to be fulfilled in my life.

All her life, she lived for God, not for herself. She suffered immensely.

But that suffering, my beloved, when we accept it and when we are thankful to the Almighty God like the Holy Mother did, that suffering and acceptance of that suffering for the glory of God will lead you to the second point, humility slash obedience. You see, unless we go through suffering, unless we are broken, unless we are walking through that dark tunnel, we will never be humble. And without humility, we will never be obedient to the Almighty God.

It takes humility to be obedient to God. And it takes suffering to be humble. When we accept that suffering, because humility, my beloved, gives you obedience. Obedience means now you are truly worshiping God. What is worship? Worship is you do as God says to you to do. When you do the will of God, you are worshiping Him.

When you are in disobedience to His holy word, you are definitely not worshiping Him. Worship is obedience, submission.

To the word, to the will of God.

The moment, the moment we are humble, the moment we are obedient to the Word of God, it is then and then only we are walking in the path of holiness. It is only then we are walking in the path of holiness. And holiness, my beloved, is the only way to reflect the true divine God in your life to the world.

Who is holy?

And the Greek word, please forgive me in advance if I'm mispronouncing it. I really want to learn how to speak Greek.

Come on, Therese. You can do better. That's my fault. I need to come and learn. Agios. Thumbs up. Thank you. Thank God.

Agios is a compounded word in Greek. Agi means not.

Yos, earthly.

So what is holy and who is holy? Holy is the one who is not earthly. If I ask somebody, what do you think a holy person is? Straight away they'll go and say the holy person does miracles. He heals the sick. He opens the heart.

Of the blind. He does wonders and miracles. Now that is a holy man.

Definitely not. Miracle doing has got nothing to do with holiness. Holy, my beloved, is when you are not earthly. Agios, not earthly. Now, what does it mean being not earthly?

I live on earth. I walk on earth, but I live in heaven. That is holiness.

I walk on earth, I live in heaven. I am in the world, but I am not of the world. I live here, but I don't belong here. The only reason I am staying here, because God willed it so that He can take His light through me, through you, and through all of us to this dark world. We are here to reveal Christ.

To the world. This is holiness.

I am not earthly because I don't belong to this world, the earth. I belong to heaven, to the spiritual realm. The day that comes, everything that is in this world means nothing to you or anything and everything in this world never controls you.

You are living heaven, no more earth.

But if Chanel is still controlling you, And if the good looking is still controlling you. And if the great house and the great car is still controlling you. If money is still controlling you. You haven't reached Agios.

Not earthly.

The Holy Mother lived in total suffering. Suffering led her to humility. She never showed off.

You know.

With all of respect to every mom, may God bless you moms. You are a humongous blessings in our lives. But when a mother sits in the midst of other ladies and other people, and then her daughter or her son just graduated and became a doctor, she would say, you know, you may ask why am I dressed up in this expensive outfit? Because my son just became a doctor.

Somebody hold me. I don't mean to boast about it, but I just couldn't help myself. And the other one will say, oh, your son became a doctor. My son is a pilot. My son is a professor. He teaches in Notre Dame University. My son is a philosopher. My son is a scientist. My daughter is the QC.

Or, no, no.

It's the Casey now. No more Q. It's the Casey. King's counselor. And what a great king he is.

Anyway. So we boast about our children. Like some.

This story goes a group of young boys were walking together and then one of the boys they passed this skyscraper and one of the boys wanted to really show off a bit and he said to his friends he said hey guys you see the skyscraper he said yes he said my dad built it my dad is an architect And Fernando's a brilliant architect.

My dad is an architect.

The Holy Mother can say to anyone and everyone, do you see the S-U-N? My son, who is the S-O-N of his heavenly father, build it with one word. And my son built other things that you can't see with your naked eye. If your son is a doctor, if your son is a lawyer, if your son is a pilot, a professor, a scientist, my son is God. The creator of all. But I never boasted about my son. I never said that I am the mother of God, the mother of the Lord. I never said, what did Mary say to the archangel Gabriel? Behold the hand made of the Lord.

I am the servant of the Lord.

The Lord says you're my mom and the mother says I am your servant, my Lord. What an incredible, humble, humble person. Why did she receive all this humility? She suffered immensely. Suffering gives you true humility where you are obedient to God, truly worshiping God in order to be agios, not earthly. Because Mary lived not earthly. She walked on earth all her life.

Lived in heaven. Agios, not earthly.

When you become not earthly, whatever you ask of the Lord, He will do.

You'll become influential.

She is mighty in her intercession. She surpasses all saints put together. She surpasses all angels of heaven put together. Let me tell you this truth. As I speak now to you, the Holy Mother, all the saints in paradise and all the angels in paradise, they bow in veneration before the Holy Mother because they all know this mom is the mother of their Lord, their creator, their God.

They bow before her, all of them. Oh, when the Holy Mother comes, Satan becomes a little mouse. She is powerful in her prayers. She is powerful in her walks. She is powerful in her intercession because she is extremely influential when she asks something from her son. Now why is she influential? Because the son says, on earth you did not live for yourself, you live for me. Mother, today I live for you. And when you talk mother, I'm talking. And when I talk, darkness becomes light. The grave becomes resurrection. Because you live for me, I live for you, mom. You become influential. When you are influential, naturally you'll be great. You don't see greatness. Greatness seeks you.

Like Saint Isaac of Nineveh, of Iraq. He says, if you chase after dignity, dignity will run away from you. But if you run away from dignity, dignity will run after you. A young girl, virgin, gave birth to the Word incarnate. The Logos, who is God, became man. She gave birth To the logos incarnate.

As it is. Recited in the Nicene Creed. We believe in one God. The Father. It is there.

The word incarnate. She lived on earth as a servant. In heaven she is the queen. She humbled herself on earth. She is highly exalted in heaven. By God himself.

We need.

The Holy Mother to be in our life. We have to ask for mom to come and be in our life. And by the way, the Lord Jesus gave the Holy Mother to be our mother as well.

Not just His, but our mother as well. And the Lord Jesus is God.

And when God says something, who are we to argue or to think about it whether we accept or not?

Who are we?

Now, the Lord Jesus, while hanging on the cross, he turns to John the Beloved and he says, Behold your mother. Behold your mother. And he turns to the Holy Mother, he says, Women, behold your son. Now, here the Lord Jesus gave his mom to be John the Beloved's mom as well. And then John the Beloved comes in Revelation chapter 1 verse 9 and he says, I, John, the servant of Jesus Christ and your brother. Now if John says to us, you are my brothers and John is the son of Mary and since we are his brothers, therefore we.

Are our holy mother children as well. Who willed this? God, Jesus Christ.

He wanted this to happen for Mary to be our mom as well. No matter what we say, it is never enough. When we speak about this amazing, incredible figure called Mariam. In the original language, it is not Mary, it is Mariam. Mariam is a Hebrew Aramaic Syriac name. Mariam but let me tell you where it derives from when you go to the original language Aramaic Syriac the language of the Lord Jesus which I speak as well when you go to the original language Mariam derives from a word called Mura Mura is a shrub Mura is a shrub when you cut a little branch of that shrub and you put it on your tongue, in your mouth, that taste is as bitter as it could ever be.

It is extremely bitter if you taste that branch of this little shrub called Mura.

It is extremely bitter.

However, when you put this piece of wood on fire, It releases a fragrance. Chanel, Versace are left for dead. So good luck to the French inventor.

It is not good. You know what I mean? Parlez-vous français? Oh là là, un petit peu, là.

That shrub, when it is burned, it releases a fragrance incredible. Maryam derives from that shrub, Mura. Meaning, when that shrub is burned, it releases an incredible fragrance. The Holy Mother, the more she suffered, the more she was burned with trials, with tribulations, the more her fragrance filled the world. And I can say the universe. Her fragrance is everywhere. The apparitions of the Holy Mother throughout the 2000 year history.

Nothing short of a miracle. One of my favorite places is Lourdes.

Speaking of French.

Saint Bernadette incredible but one of the most powerful apparitions of the holy mother is in al-zaytun egypt 1968 appeared for two years on end for two years millions of people saw her saw her with their own naked eye And then the church acknowledged that it is the apparition of the Holy Mother. She transfigured on the dome of the church. And that church, I went and I saw that church myself not long ago. It is an extremely tiny little church. The Holy Mother is like her son and the son is.

Like his mom.

They appear in unwanted areas, unknown areas. places that are not of a great importance. It was a little tiny church. Few people would go and attend the prayer or the mass there.

Why? Because it was not important.

In a very, very, very, very, very cheap area. And the church was so tiny. Yet there was cathedrals and other places. We go to the big cathedrals. Why would we go to a little tiny church in a village somewhere unknown, unheard of?

You know, not that important.

The queen of heaven appeared in a place where it was not known by the Egyptian people. But now everybody knows where that church is. Just like her son was born in a manger. God born in a manger in the midst of animals. But that manger, the whole world, goes to Bethlehem today. And they kiss the feet and the dirt and the dust of Bethlehem. Humility is the key to success. Humility is the key to having favor with God.

But humility....

To be achieved in a fallen, corrupt human nature, it takes suffering.

To humble this fallen, corrupt nature. And I'll leave you with this.

When God pre-warned Adam, our father Adam, and said to him, do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Because the day you eat, surely you shall die.

God was pre-warning him out of absolute divine love. When Adam ate from that tree, what did Adam literally say to God?

He said the following.

He said, God, from this moment onward, after I've eaten from the forbidden tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, from this moment onward, I say to you, God, I will be the definer of what is good and evil, not you. And this is the dilemma and the struggle of the human race, not just Christians, but every human being.

The dilemma is we try to define what is good and what is evil.

The problem is since we.

Do not know everything and the proof that we do not know everything, we ask questions.

Why do we ask questions? Because we do not know everything.

God never asks questions because God is evil.

Omniscient.

He is all knowledge. He knows everything. That's why He never asks, but why do we ask? Because we don't know everything. That's why we ask in order to know. Since we don't know everything, then everything we say is based on assumption.

We may say this is good.

On what grounds did we Define that this is good on the grounds of assumption.

Since it's assuming it.

Is good, there is a percentage we could be extremely wrong. And what we think is good, later on we realize it was very bad. I was dying to pass the exam. I begged the Lord, let me pass the exam and I failed. When I failed, I said, I'll never pray to you anymore. I'll never go to your church anymore. I will never be nice anymore.

That's it. I've had enough. I've been begging you to give me this and you're not giving it. That's it. God, why? This is good for me. God looks at us.

He says, my child, this is your definition. But my definition, I am the infinite God. My knowledge is perfect. That's why I'm the only one who qualifies to define what is truly good and what is truly evil. Leave the definition for me, not for you. Because you will define it your way. You'll misdefine it. You'll call good evil.

And you will call evil good. Let God do it for you. Don't do with your way. The Holy Mother let God do it for her. She let him. That's why she's the queen. That's why she's the mother of God, of the Lord, of Christ, of our Lord Jesus.

That's why.

And that's why she lives forever. Churches are named after her till this very day, 2,000 years later. She lives so powerfully, so powerfully. Why can't we see that? That this is the work of God. If it wasn't for the Lord Jesus, why would I love the Holy Mother?

It's the Lord.

But because she allowed God to define everything in her life for her. That's why she ended up being not earthly. Now she lives in heaven. And what a figure. I don't know if I could ask this, but I'll dare to ask. Lord, with your infinite mercy, love, and compassion towards your children, Maybe allow your mom to appear here one day. I just pray, not for anything, you know, I just pray that we have a glimpse of her magnificence.

And then you'll realize that she is absolutely full of life. There is no such thing as this person departed, they're dead. No such thing, please, I beg you. It's non-biblical. If the Holy Mother is not living, man, we are in deep trouble. How can he be in the presence of the Lord? And not only his presence, how can he be embedded in the Lord and dead? Jesus Christ is the source of life. How can he be embedded in him and dead? Life can never die. Life can only live.

God created life to always live. Life will never die. He who has the Son has eternal life. The Holy Mother is incredible. I pray she visits us in person and says hello to all of us very soon.

Come on, Mom. Come on, Ozzy. Come on. Come on. Come on, Mom. We love you and we miss you and we want to see you. That's it.

I am very stubborn because I am Assyrian, right? So I am very stubborn. When it comes to stubbornness, I'm extremely stubborn. I will not let go of the Lord Jesus until He sends me.

What do you say? Amen? Amen?

You see, it's good to be stubborn this way, not other way. My son, when your wife says something, don't be stubborn. You will sleep in the street, my son. But be stubborn in your love for the Lord. Be stubborn in your faith for the Lord. Be stubborn in seeking the Lord.

Never give up. Amen. May the Holy Mother bless us all. And her prayers.

May the Lord unite his church through the prayers of the Holy Mother. May the Lord bring peace and tranquility in this troubled, turmoiled world. World of wars and divisions and bloodsheds. We pray for peace in the Middle East. We pray for peace in all the four corners of this world by the prayers of the Holy Mother. May our Lord, the King of peace, Christ the King, the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords, bestow His peace by the intercession and the prayers of our Holy Mother in this in this turmoiled world. I pray that the Lord Jesus reaches out to every single one of us by the intercession and the prayers of the Holy Mother. I pray that The love of Christ is bestowed in your hearts, in your families, in your

loved ones. I pray that the Lord give you good health and good spirit through the prayers and the intercession of the Holy Mother Mary. I pray, my beloved, for those who are in prison. May the Queen of Heaven reach out to them through her prayers and intercession to her beloved Son who is God revealed in the flesh to set them free from those chains. And I'm not talking about literal physical chains, but I'm more so speaking about a release of those spiritual chains which Satan has made us all enslaved to our own sinful life. May the Lord set us all free from every imprisonment physical and spiritual. May the Lord Jesus, through the praise of the Holy Mother, feed every hungry soul, physically and spiritually.

Quench the thirst of every soul that is thirsty physically and spiritually. And clothe every naked soul both physically and spiritually. And may the Lord by the intercession of the Holy Mother reach out to everyone who is a stranger, has no place, has no one.

May the Lord....

Confine that person in Him and the Lord become that refuge and that shelter for that lost, estranged person by the prayers of the Holy Mother. I pray, I pray from the bottom of my heart through the prayers of the Holy Mother, the love of my life, my pride, my glory, my honor, my mom, my love, my sweetheart.

I adore her. I cannot live without her. I am nothing without her. Mom, I beg you, mother. Beg your son. Your son hears your praise. I'm a sinner.

You are the holy one. Holy mom. Beg your son to have mercy on all of us. I pray if.

There is problems in a family, The Lord fixes that problem. I pray if there is division, the Lord fixes that division. I pray for children who are disobedient. I pray they become obedient. I pray for those who are distant. Come ever close to Jesus Christ who is the only way, the truth and the life. My sons and daughters of the church, be close to the Lord. Be close to your holy mom. She loves you beyond your imagination. She prays for you every single moment, non-stop. The Holy Mother's role is prayer. She is just one big prayer. She prays all the time for all of you, my beloved.

All the time. But I'm still praying for her to come. like sort of appear here and say hello to all of us.

Amen. Let's bow our heads.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Our good God and full of mercy, our good God and full of mercy, whose grace and mercy is poured upon all. Pour, my Lord, the compassion of the delightfulness of your love upon your servants. and again transform them in the hope of renewal to the life of repentance.

Renew in them.

Your Holy Spirit by whom they are sealed for the day of salvation. Purify them by your compassion from all flesh and spiritual blemishes and assure the hope of their faith by the aid of your grace and instill the walks of their behavior in the paths of righteousness. Please them along with the saints in your kingdom by the assurance of the hope of their faith and the adoption as your children and in the joy of your absolving mysteries.

Empower them by the aid of your mercies to observe your commandments and fulfill your will to confess, worship, and praise your holy name, the Lord of all, Father and Son, and Holy Spirit forever.

Amen. May the Holy Mother bless you.

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