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All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

Is Mary's Immaculate Conception Biblical?

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Everything Catholics believe about Mary is not meant to focus primarily on her. It’s meant to help us understand and love Jesus more. That’s especially the case with her Immaculate Conception.

Edward Sri unpacks the Biblical foundations for the Immaculate Conception as he shares insights from his newest book on every key New Testament reference to Mary: Rethinking Mary in the New Testament (Ignatius Press)

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

0:17.0

Hi friends, happy advent to you. Here we are in the first week of advent and we are quickly

0:25.8

approaching the great solemnity my favorite feast day coming up here it is the

0:30.5

solemnity of the Immaculate Conception this Saturday, December 8, the solemnity of

0:35.9

Mary's Immaculate Conception.

0:37.2

Now, when we think about this great feast day, a lot of people got questions here.

0:41.6

They're wondering, oh boy, what is this going on with Mary and these Catholics?

0:45.2

They always are exaggerating Mary's role in the Christian life. They make Mary out to be like God.

0:50.7

She's on par with God. She's like the fourth person of the Trinity.

0:53.8

And here's another example, you know,

0:55.8

Jesus is a king, so they make Mary a queen.

0:58.8

Jesus ascended into heaven, and so they make Mary

1:02.1

have this thing called the assumption into heaven and so they make Mary have this thing called the

1:03.0

assumption into heaven and since Jesus was without sin they've got to make

1:07.8

Mary without sin so they come up with this idea of the Immaculate Conception I

1:11.5

want to unpack for you what this doctrine is really all about.

1:14.8

I want to understand how it's really all about Jesus and helps us to love Jesus more, to understand

1:20.8

Jesus. And I want to understand the biblical roots of this doctrine that it's actually something that has

1:25.3

some scriptural support we're going to see. But let's just step back for a moment and just examine

1:31.4

what is the Immaclic conceptionception itself a lot of confusion about

1:34.1

this even among many great Catholics they think the Immaculate Conception is all about

1:37.7

maybe Mary's Virginal birth that she gave birth to Jesus as a virgin or she conceived Jesus as a virgin. This has nothing

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