Gentle Mary terror of heretics, infidels

Mary is the mother of all true priests, and the terror of heretics.

Through her virginity and her obedience to God she became the pure vessel to contain God’s most beloved Jesus.

Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit overshadowing her. She was the first and only in history to receive a pure infusion of the Holy Spirit, which changed her very being.

Because she remained humble and mostly silent, many miss that Mary became herself a speaker of prophecy by grace of the Holy Spirit. She said:

My soul magnifies the Lord,

And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;

Because he has regarded the lowliness of his handmaid;

For, behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed;

Because he who is mighty has done great things for me,

And holy is his name:

And his mercy is from generation to generation

On those who fear him.

He has shown might with his arm,

He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.

He has put down the mighty from their thrones,

And he has exalted the lowly.

He has filled the hungry with good things,

And the rich he has sent away empty.

He has given help to Israel,

His servant, mindful of his mercy-

Even as he spoke to our fathers-

To Abraham and to his posterity forever.

Luke 1:46-55

I am astonished when non Catholic Christians gloss over this mighty prophecy by Mary.

She is the terror of all heretics not because she pounds them into the ground of her own power.

She is the terror of heretics because she speaks clearly what the Lord wills to happen, and what will happen. Her very body and her modesty are proof of all that will happen, of the downfall of those who are cruel and who do not believe, and the rise of the humble and pious. And she spoke this immediately upon conceiving and traveling to her relative Elizabeth, before Jesus was even born. How can people not see that the Holy Spirit moved her to make one of the greatest prophetic speeches of all time? Because this is a canticle many think this is a Paul Anka “I am having a baby” song, I seem to think sometimes. But good Lord can anyone not read what is being said by a virginal Jewish maiden? “He has put down the mighty from their thrones.”

So heretics through the ages fear Mary (and defame her) not because she is going to “do” anything to them, but because she is the living proof of God’s will, and these words ring in the inner being of all who defy God and defame the faith of “Abraham and…. his posterity.”

Remember that Mary is not only transformed by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit once, to bear Jesus and thus also deliver him and this prophecy, but a second time, in the midst of the Apostles and disciples, during Pentecost. Mary is not to be worshipped but she is to be heeded at people’s great peril if otherwise as she proclaims God and his will through both words and her own body’s temple.