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Revisiting the joyful mysteries pregnancy journeys as an image of the whole divine plan of salvation History
I was blessed to have the sharing in the homiletic pastoral review several years ago.
This would mean it's not crazy because the publication therein has International prestige, is 125 years old, the first publication in the United States for priests, and with celebrities and high up intellectuals who have written for it or have appeared there, including but not limited to, the late Alice van Hildebrand, the late father scanlan of The Franciscan University of steubenville, Ralph Martin of EWTN and renewal ministries, many Cardinals bishops and clergy, phd's theologians Etc.
I am not saying I stand on their footing but I feel very blessed to have seven articles in this thing, most of which highlight my theology.
This particular installment is really mind-blowing, even though it is somewhat complex. It really does follow how God operates. And how?
This is because God does mighty things with the lowly. The very unfathomably beautiful and poetic words of the blessed Virgin Mary in The Magnificat echo this several times.
“Behold, my soul magnifies the greatness of the lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my savior.
“For he has looked kindly upon his lowly servant. Behold , all generations sha call me blessed , for the almighty has done great things for me , and holy is his name.
“He has scattered the proud in his conceit and he has cast down the mighty from their thrones and has exalted the lowly.
“He has sent the rich away empty but has filled the hungry with good thing s.”
Toward this end, the article first discusses the two big, great sections of the Bible that lay out this allegory of the divine plan. They actually lie at the poles of scripture, first in the beginning with the days of creation analogy in Genesis, and ending with the beast heads analogy toward the end of apocalypse.
They pretty much mirror one another, although the days of creation give a deeper insight than merely the beast.
The wonder is that, once again, in the middle of scripture between these two extremes, we have the beautiful but obscure and seemingly miniscule details of two humble women, who at that time are literally unknown to the vast majority of humanity. And yet they carry the central mysteries of the whole of human history and the divine plan right there within their wombs.
Consequently, we would actually expect that God might hide even much further depth within these humble and effectively invisible circumstances.
And amazingly, when we apply common sense to the analogies from Catholic doctrine the context of scripture and so forth, at all comes together astoundingly.
Without further ado, I will place the link to the homiletic review article, and then below it , try to summarize as briefly as I can the main points of the article to give hints and how interesting one will hopefully find it to be.
The Joyful Mysteries as Image of All Human History
https://www.hprweb.com/2019/06/analogy-of-analogies/
Summaries
- The beast Kings in the days of creation or pictures of the entire set of ages from the fall all the way to the new creation inclusive.
- Each day of creation has two parts, evening and morning, or first spiritual Darkness then followed by spiritual light or redemption of the Darkness
- This means that each day of creation, or bigger age, has two sub ages as above.
- Just as there are ultimately eight days of creation, so the beast has eight Kings, which are seen as sub ages of Darkness or sin. These, then, are the sub ag darkness phases of the full ages of the days of creation.
- Since there are eight total greater ages of the world, and each age has two parts (Darkness / light), that makes 8 * 2 = 16 total sub ages for the entire world, where the first sub age is the fall and its quick digression into the near total wickedness of Noah’s day, and the 16th sub part is the second coming in New Creation the completes the whole trajectory.
- The solution to correlate the joyful mysteries pregnancies to the sub ages above, is simply to have each month in the sequence of the pregnancies, starting from Elizabeth's conception of the child all the way unto Christmas, to image a sub age itself, whether Darkness or light depending on its place on the sequence.
- Astoundingly, the total number of months in the overlapped pregnancies of Elizabeth and Mary, is almost the entire number of sub ages in the aforementioned model of creation and beast
- The overlapping total months is 15 and the total number of sub ages is 16. This is very close but in fact the slight differential will be solved toward the end so that all fits.
- St Elizabeth's conception in her womb of St John the Baptist is the beginning of human history.
- The subsequent chastisement of her husband Zachariah for his unbelief, which struck him dumb or unable to speak, is God's apocalyptic discipline of the human race at battle, rendering the world unable to speak to one another in the varied and diverse Nations and tongues the dove them apart
- St John the Baptist developing within his mother's womb simply images the Old testament as it evolves unto the birth of St John.
- Since St John in his climactic ministry is the ultimate Herald of the Messiah, his birth effectively images of the culmination of the Old testament transitioning into the new of the Christ.
- Therefore the birth of St John represents the first coming of Christ
- The sacred tradition delineates five ages to the Old Law, from Adam to the first coming.
- Since the greater ages are two sub parts, it means that there are 10 sub ages from the fall unto the first coming of Christ inclusive, which leaves 9 sub ages for the Old testament activity, with the tenth sub age being the Light of Christ.
- This can image a possible mysticism between the fact that every woman must carry a child for 9 months and the idea that it was necessary in the divine plan for there to be nine sub ages to prepare for the coming of Messiah.
- Mary consumes within the 6th month of Elizabeth which is neither the beginning nor the end but somewhere in between. She gives birth 9 months later. Since Elizabeth is quote on quote within her sixth month, her position in the sixth month is also the sixth sub phase overall in the absolute timeline.
- Technically Elizabeth has been pregnant for 5 months and a unknown part of a month.
- Mary will give birth 9 months forth going.
- So Mary will give birth in the overall timeline at 9 + 5 + a part. 9 + 5 is 14 total months and then there is a part of a month so she is giving birth somewhere within the 15th month overall.
- The second coming of Jesus is right at the end of the 15th month and the beginning of the 16th month.
- So we are off a little but behold, Jesus will come a little bit early by his own testimony because quote on quote from the gospel quote on quote and if those days had not been shorteed, no flesh would survive.
- Hence, Jesus does come back within the 15th month and not the very end of it haha!
- After Elizabeth conceives, the scripture saying that she withdraws into seclusion, in order that the Lord might vindicate her and act on her behalf until Mary comes unto her.
- The seclusion done lasts for effectively the first six sub ages, which of course is effectively the first three great sublights.
- Three great patriarchs emerge from the lights successively and God acts in mighty ways to vindicate them and on behalf of them
- God acted on behalf of Noah and vindicate them to the flood, in the face of the wicked world that mocked him
- God acted on behalf of Abraham and vindicated him after the Tower of Babel by choosing his small people among the many tongues that were divided to be his special bride and journey to the Old testament to prepare for the Christ. Abraham had supreme Divine interventions as he journeyed and God declared he would bless him as the father of all Nations
- God acted mightily on behalf of Moses and vindicated Moses in the Hebrew people through the wondrous apocalyptic miracles and chastisements sent upon Egypt to free them, culminating with the Red Sea.
I am a Catholic revert. I desire to share deeper theology about the Catholic Church that is admittedly speculative but that makes perfect sense from Catholic doctrine and church teaching.
The Catholic Church shows us that we are all priceless regardless of what anything the world may say about us. We can hold our heads high and know that God loves us no matter what and desires us to be with him forever if we but persevere in love with him unto the end.
To know these things gives me great joy and I am just a poor sinner striving to become holier little by little.
May God bless all writers and readers on this site in all ways, amen!
