BVM

In our gospel reading this morning, Luke 1:26-38, Mary is surprised by the same angel who recently visited Elizabeth’s husband Zechariah with like news from God: Mary will bear a son. Luke tells us her response: πως εσται τουτο επει ανδρα ου γινωσκω. Literally, “How shall this since man not I know.” Every English translation renders it differently, some more delicately than others, but what Mary says is that she has never been with a male. Thus we have the Doctrine of the Virgin Birth. We shall discuss it in our Sunday School class this morning. Come join us. Mary Stuart Poole Library, 9:15 a.m.

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Fra Filipo Lippi, The Annunciation