{"id":1129,"date":"2014-11-14T13:32:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/inebriateme\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2014-11-14T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:34:13","slug":"the-rosary-as-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/inebriateme\/2014\/11\/the-rosary-as-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rosary As Bible Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, \u201cBlessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.\u201d He replied, \u201cBlessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.\u201d<\/em> Luke, 11:27-28<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here, rather than portraying Jesus dismissing his mother, Luke is portraying him doing the exact opposite, by setting up an explicit parallel with another well-known passage:<\/p>\n

And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.<\/em> Luke 1:28<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mary is blessed,\u00a0because<\/em> she heard the Word of God and kept it. Indeed, Mary is Jesus\u2019 mother only because she heard the Word of God, leading to the Medieval quip that Jesus was conceived through the ear.<\/p>\n

In Catholic Tradition, Mary is understood as a type of the Church, and vice versa.\u00a0To meditate on Mary is to learn about the Church, to meditate on the mystery of the Church is to learn about Mary.<\/p>\n

Mary is the New Eve, and the Church is also the New Eve: fashioned from the side of the New Adam, whence the salvific baptismal water flowed.<\/p>\n

Mary is the one who heard the Word of God, and received it, and kept it, and \u201cpondered\u201d it, and then shared it with the world.<\/p>\n

As a historical matter, in\u00a0giving the Great\u00a0Commission to the apostles, the Risen Jesus gave them the command and the authority to preach the Gospel to all nations. And this they did. And, decades later, one of the ways in which they did so was to write the books\u00a0we now know as the books of the New Testament. The Church received the Word and birthed it, putting together the Biblical canon. The Bible, then, stands at the heart of the Church\u2019s Gospel proclamation, but cannot be reduced to it, but only finds its true place within the great Apostolic Tradition founded by our Lord\u00a0himself.<\/p>\n

In chapter 5 of the Book of Revelation, we find that the only one who can open \u201cthe Scrolls\u201d, that is to say, the Scriptures, is \u201cthe\u00a0lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of Jesse,\u201d our Lord\u2013whose mystical Body is the Church, the pillar and foundation of Truth, and who said, \u201cBehold, I am with you, to the end of the age.\u201d<\/p>\n

To \u201copen the Scrolls,\u201d then, we must do so from the heart of the Church. In other words, we must, like the Church, be like Mary,\u00a0and be blessed because we heard the Word and keep it. It is Mary who helps us unlock the Scriptures.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the Rosary. In the Rosary, we are invited, as we pray each decade, to meditate upon one of the great mysteries of the Christian faith<\/a>, each of which was passed down to us through Scripture. As we pray the deeply biblical prayer of the Ave Maria,\u00a0we become like Mary,\u00a0hearing and receiving the Word, and Mary helps us open the Scrolls. As we pray the Rosary, we enter in the communion of saints, within the communal prayer of the Church\u2013one thing you can bet is that as you\u2019re reading this, someone, somewhere is praying the Rosary\u2013who receives the Word and shares it with us.<\/p>\n

The Bible does not have just a literal sense, but a deeper, more divine spiritual sense, which must be accessed through prayer and meditation upon its mysteries. It is, first and foremost, a liturgical document, produced by and for the liturgy of the Church, and so we can only \u201center into it\u201d in a liturgical, prayerful way. To pray the Rosary, then, is to enter into the Bible in a deeply powerful and intimate way, one which is more orthodox than painstaking exegesis disconnected from the living, Spirit-inspired Tradition passed from our Lord to the Apostles.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, \u201cBlessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.\u201d He replied, \u201cBlessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.\u201d Luke, 11:27-28 Here, rather than portraying Jesus dismissing his mother, Luke is portraying him doing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mary","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Rosary As Bible Study<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, \u201cBlessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.\u201d He replied, \u201cBlessed rather\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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