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Perpetual Virginity of Mary

The document discusses the Catholic dogma of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary. It states that Mary remained a virgin before, during, and after the birth of Jesus Christ. This dogma has been a defined Catholic teaching since the earliest Church Fathers and was officially declared in the 5th century. The document provides scriptural evidence from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke to support Mary's virginal conception and details why she remained a virgin after Jesus' birth due to her role as the Mother of God.

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Perpetual Virginity of Mary

The document discusses the Catholic dogma of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary. It states that Mary remained a virgin before, during, and after the birth of Jesus Christ. This dogma has been a defined Catholic teaching since the earliest Church Fathers and was officially declared in the 5th century. The document provides scriptural evidence from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke to support Mary's virginal conception and details why she remained a virgin after Jesus' birth due to her role as the Mother of God.

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Perpetual Virginity

of Mary
• The Perpetual Virginity is the dogma which recognizes the Blessed
Virgin Mary’s virginity before, during, and after the conception and
Birth of Christ.
• The teaching of Mary’s perpetual virginity is one of the longest
defined dogmas of the Church. It was taught by the earliest Church
Fathers, including: Tertullian, St. Athanasius, St. Ambrose, and St.
Augustine. And it was officially declared a dogma at the Fifth
Ecumenical Council in Constantinople in 553 A.D. That declaration
called Mary “ever-virgin.”
• A century later, a statement by Pope Martin I clarified that “ever-
virgin” meant Mary was a virgin before, during, and after Christ’s
birth. Of those three aspects of Mary’s perpetual virginity, the
easiest part to see in Scripture is her virginal conception of Christ.
Both Matthew and Luke leave no room for doubt on that (Mt 1:18; 
Lk 1:34–35, 3:23). 
Matthew 1:18
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ* took place in this way. When his
mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came
together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit;
• Luke 1:34–35
34 And Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I have
no husband?”
35 And the angel said to her,
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
and the power of the Most High will overshadow you;
therefore the child to be born* will be called holy,
the Son of God.
That virginal motherhood is the guarantor of both Jesus’ divinity
and Jesus’ humanity. It safeguards the truth that he was both fully
God and fully man.
• Less apparent is Mary’s virginity during and after Christ’s birth.
Understanding the reason for that first requires recognition that
Mary’s virginity wasn’t just one attribute of hers among many. It’s
central to her identity. It’s who she is. Not just biologically, but
spiritually, interiorly. All her life, Mary possessed an integrity that
every other human person since Adam and Eve has lacked. Because of
that integrity, her body perfectly expressed her spirit. There was no
tension between the two. Accordingly, since Mary’s soul was entirely
consecrated to God, so too was her body. Her physical virginity was a
perpetual sign of that consecration.
• Mary’s virginity keeps the physical sign of an interior reality intact. Doing
that took a miracle, but no more of a miracle than it took for Jesus, after
his resurrection, to enter the room where His disciples awaited Him
even though the door was locked (Jn 20:19). That’s also one of the
reasons why Mary and Joseph refrained from normal marital relations.
Her virginity was too central to her identity to do otherwise.
• John 20:19
• 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being
shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and
stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
• That centrality is foreshadowed in the two Old Testament “types” of
Mary: The Virgin Eve and the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark’s holiness
stemmed from the presence of God within it. That presence made it
so sacred that anyone who touched it died instantly (2 Sam 6:6–7).
Mary, like the Ark, had been set apart from everything else in
creation. She contained the presence of God within her, closed to
everyone and everything else in this respect.
• By three-fold virginity, we mean that Mary was a virgin before
the birth of Jesus, during the birth of Jesus, and after the birth of
Jesus.
• Explained proof that Mary is worthy of the Title Perpetual
Virginity
• To start, Mary was a virgin before she conceived and bore Jesus (birhen
siya bago ipaglihi ang kanyang anak na si Jesus).

• Luke 1:27
[27] to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house
of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. 
and during Mary’s conception o paglilihi mababasa natin
• Mathew 1:23
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring. forth a son. They
shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
• The second way the Church defines Mary’s virginity is that it was
preserved during the birth of Jesus (birhen siya kahit noung
panahon bago manganak na siya).
• Isiah 7:14
“ a virgin shall conceive and bear a son”.
• Finally, we have the third part of Mary’s perpetual virginity, which is
that she remained a virgin after the birth of Jesus.
• Mathew 1:25
“ but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a son; and he named him
Jesus.”
• Even before it is in the prophecy that Mary will BE the “temple gate”
• Ezekiel 44:2
“This gate is to remain shut. It must not be opened; no one may
enter through it. It is to remain shut because the LORD, the God of
Israel, has entered through it.
ONLY JESUS ​CAN ENTER MARY’S WOMB AND IT IS IN THE PROPHECY.
AS A CATHOLIC IT S PART OF OUR PROFESSION OF FAITH

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