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To learn more, visit our show notes at St Paul Center.com forward slash road. 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 my name 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 Bible and what I'd found in the fathers.

And it wasn't proof texting, you know.

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 in light of the old you can see

how Jesus himself is presented as a new atom going back to creation and you can see him as a new

Moses going back to the exodus bringing about a new Passover 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, 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 arc 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

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