Welcome back to Catholic Answers live. It's so nice to find the same keys to be here with us. It's always a nice hour when he's here. And Tim staples is here with us now. So there will be no lag this hour.

You are welcome to call, but I tell you what the phones are all busy because everybody heard Tim's coming in 888-318-788-4 is a number. Tim staples, a senior

ologist here at Catholic Answers, been doing this an awful long time and is the author of the book on Mary that people all over use that book. It's called Behold Your Mother, a biblical and historical defense of the

Mary and doctrines. Hello, Tim. Hello, Sy Kelly. It is good to be with you, my brother. Did you look awfully well? Are you doing well? I'm feeling well, energetic. Just was out with my kids yesterday playing. Well, I wasn't playing. I was watching them play baseball. And yeah, it's just a little bit of time out there. I get the sun on the face. You feel so much better, man. Well, we had a question last hour about Jesus in baseball. Could he have hit a curveball? And you know what the...

Oh, no, man. You feel like that. Yeah, but you know, people have that question about what, like, did he? What is he? Was he a superhero? And he's not a superhero. That's important for people to know. We'll start with in Peoria, Illinois, David in Peoria, Illinois, listening on the Catholic Answers Live app. David, thanks for downloading the app onto your phone. Go ahead with your question for Tim. David? David's getting a snack. Oh, maybe I pushed the wrong button. I don't know. That happens, too.

Oh, hey, David, how are you? I hope it was a good snack. No, you're fine. We kept you waiting a long time through that break and everything. All right, go ahead with your question for Tim.

I was y'all, I was given some corrections to the kids and forgot to unmute after. Put them on. We'll do it. We'll correct them. Tim's really good at correcting. I can relate to that, brother. Yeah.

Okay, so I'm new to the Catholic faith. Just cave in. So we're happy just.

Oh, praise God. Congratulations. That's beautiful. You've, you've, you've set us off to a really good start here. Just with that.

Right? Yeah. Welcome. Welcome, brother. But what's on your mind?

Thank you very much. Um, I'm trying to make sense of your book is, uh, behold your mother.

Okay. The section where you're talking about the reema, the word and the play on words there. Yes.

I'm having trouble seeing how. Within my viewpoint, it looks like the angel is announcing to her this will come to half be this will come to be this will come to be in the same sense of like you couldn't deny it like that.

Or I and all the others, but it's definitely going to happen whether you give your a center not, but then she gives her a scent.

And I'm not necessarily seeing how it's, it seems that you're saying it's contingent upon her giving her a scent. Right.

And hence why the Greek fathers are able to see that. And so I, I trust that they know their Greek a whole lot.

But I do. I'm just learning mine. So if you could clarify that for me because I don't understand with the future tenses of how it

seems, you've declaring this will happen. Right. And then her saying, yes, I want this to happen in believing it. Right. Well, here, here's the key whenever we're talking about prophecy in sacred scripture.

And here, of course, the angel is, uh, you could argue as prophesying. Of course, it's going to come to pass.

As you remember, I love the way the Catechism, the Catholic Church, uh, does it in that would be section 600 and forward, right down to around 606, as I recall, but that section on, uh, God's providence and predestination.

Um, and it's hard for us to get a grasp of this. But God knows what's going to happen. Right. He knows Mary's going to say yes.

And in fact, she is predestined in, in, in the sense that God went before, graced her just as anyone who eventually makes it to heaven.

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