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I remember the first feast of the assumption of Mary that I ever experienced over a quarter of a century ago.

The night before, I was with a friend of mine named Bill,

who was still a Protestant, a Baptist, and really disturbed that I had become a Catholic.

And so he brought up the subject of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the assumption in particular.

And so I began to share with him what I had found in the Bible

and what I'd found in the fathers. And it wasn't proof texting. The church never just simply

goes to a text and says, that's the proof. It always reads the scripture in its context. So you're

looking at the new in light of the old and the old in light of the new. And so I introduced that interpretive principle to Bill and said, so if you look at the old

in light of the new and new in light of the old, you can see how Jesus himself is presented

as a new Adam, going back to creation.

You can see him as a new Moses, going back to the Exodus, bringing about a new Passover. You can see that he's a new Solomon, back to the Exodus, bringing about a new Passover.

You can see that he's a new Solomon, the son of David, bringing about a new Jerusalem in the kingdom.

And then I pointed out that back in creation, it wasn't just Adam, it was also Eve.

Back at the time of the Exodus, it wasn't just Moses.

It was the Ark of the Covenant as the sign of God's presence.

And likewise, at the time of David's kingdom, it wasn't Ark of the Covenant as the sign of God's presence. And likewise, at the time

of David's kingdom, it wasn't just Solomon you see in First Kings 2, verse 19. It was the queen

mother enthroned at the king's right hand. And so I began to unpack all of this in terms of how

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