Handout and Notes for Catholic Webinar
Mary and the Eucharist
with Dr. Taylor Marshall
Sponsored by the New Saint Thomas Institute
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What we will cover tonight:
Why Mary and Eucharist are most debated topics: common
misunderstandings
What is Zero-Sum Theology and why it’s wrong
Nature/Person distinction Mary and Christ
Substance/Accidents distinction for Eucharist
How to explain and defend the Catholic teaching
o Bible Verses on Our Lady
o Bible Verses on Holy Eucharist
Part 1 will be philosophical
Part 2 will be Scriptural
1. God entering time is complicated because it touches on “metaphysics”
a. What is metaphysics
b. Son of God enters time and space through Mary
c. His presence also enters through the Eucharist
2. Zero-Sum vs Participation
a. Zero-Sum:
b. Participation:
3. Nature/Person distinction helps us understand Christ and Mary
a. Nature:
b. Person:
c. Mary is mother of a person (Son of God), not simply His human nature
d. Nestorianism is heresy that Mary is mother of only His human
nature/person.
e. Christ is ONE divine person with a full divine nature and a full human
nature united in _____________ union.
4. Substance/Accidents distinction helps us understand Holy Eucharist
a. Substance: the “what is it”
i. Essence
ii. Nature
b. Accidents are the changeable properties that do not determine substance
or essence: like color, shape, smell, etc.
5. Here’s a chart:
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Categories Aristotle’s Term Greek Examples
Substance/Essence “substance” ousia man, horse
“this” tode ti Socrates
ti esti
“what-it-is” “Socrates is a man”
Quantity How much poson four-foot, five-foot
Quality What sort poion white, literate
Relation related to what pros ti double, half, greater
Location Where pou in the Lyceum, in the marketplace
Time When pote yesterday, last year
Position Being situated keisthai lies, sits
Habit Having, possession echein is shod, is armed
Action Doing poiein cuts, burns
Passion Undergoing paschein is cut, is burned
Greeks refer to the change in the Eucharist as a metousiosis or change of substance
(ousia). The Latin term transubstantiatio is the Latin translation of this word and
was used at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215).
Part II: Bible Session
OUR BLESSED LADY IN THE BIBLE
Lk 1:42-48 - “blessed are you among women.”
Jn 2:1-5 - Mary’s intercession
Lk 1:43 – Mary is “Mother of God”
Lk 1:46 Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord.
4 Marian Dogmas
1. Theotokos
2. Ever Virgin
3. Immaculate Conception
4. Assumption
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Immaculate Conception of Mary
The Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that Mary was conceived without
original sin by the “pre-applied” grace of Christ’s death on the cross
Gen 3:15 with Rev 12:1-17 Mary is the New Eve and enemy of the Serpent
Lk 1:28 - “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” The Greek word for “full of
grace” is kecharitomene, denoting a plenitude of grace. Wherever grace is full, sin is
absent.
Mary Ever-Virgin
John 19:26-27 - Jesus gives care of Mary to John, not one of his “brothers”
2 Sam 6:23; Gen 8:7, Dt 34:6 - passages demonstrating that “until” (Mt 1:25) does
not denote consummation
Rev 11:19-12:3 - Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant and it would be unfitting for
her sacred womb to be violated
The so-called “Brothers” of Jesus
In Jewish antiquity, “brother” does not mean “blood brother” but simply
“kinsman”
Gen 14:14 - Lot, Abraham’s nephew (Gen 11:26-28), described as Abraham’s
brother (KJV)
Gen 29:15 - Laban, Jacob’s uncle, calls Jacob his “brother” (KJV)
The “brothers” of Jesus number are actually the children of Mary the wife of
Cleophas
Mary wife of Cleophas and “sister” of the Virgin Mary (Jn 19:25) is the mother of
James and Joseph (Mk 15:47; Mt 27:56) who are called the “brothers of Jesus” (Mk
6:3).
The number of the “brothers” of Jesus equals about 95 men!!!
Acts 1:12-15 says that there were 120 at Pentecost consisting of apostles (12 people),
Mary (1 person), “some women” (about 12 people) and Jesus’ “brothers”—this
means that the “brothers of Jesus numbered at about 95 people!!! Obviously
“brothers” does not mean blood brothers.
Assumption & Coronation of Mary
Gen 5:24; Heb 11:5; 2 Kings 2:1-13 - Enoch and Elijah were assumed bodily into
heaven
2 Tim 4:8, Jas 1:12, 1 Pet 5:4, Rev 2:10 - coronation awaits saints
EUCHARIST & REAL PRESENCE IN THE BIBLE
Mt 26:26-27; Mk 14:22,24; Lk 22:19-20; 1 Cor 10:24-25 – “This is my Body…This
is my Blood.”
1 Cor 5:7 – “Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the
feast” (i.e. the Eucharist)
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1 Cor 10:16 – eating Eucharist is participation or communion with the Body and
Blood of Christ.
1 Cor 11:26-30 – unworthy eating is sinning against the Body and Blood of Christ
Jn 6:52-58 - you must eat the Body and Blood of Jesus
[52] The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give
us his flesh to eat?"
don’t make[53] So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat
the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;
[54] he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise
him up at the last day.
[55] For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
[56] He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
[57] As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats
me will live because of me.
[58] This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate
and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever."
Ps 27:1-2; Is 9:18-20; Is 49:26; Mic 3:3; Rev 17:6,16 – shows that symbolic
interpretation of Jn 6 inappropriate
Gen 14:18; Ps 110:4; Heb 7:1-17 - Christ is a priest like Melchizedek, offering bread
and wine
Acts 2:42 – “breaking of bread” refers to Eucharist
BEST ARGUMENTS FOR PROTESTANTS:
Mary magnifies the Lord
Mary was at conception, birth, ministry, death, ascension of Christ and when Holy
Spirit came down on Pentecost
The woman in the Apocalypse is Mary and she is powerful.
Mary is New Eve
Christ is Passover Lamb and He must be eaten for salvation.
Passover Lamb was killed, blood spread, and then eaten. It must be that way in New
Testament.
“Wouldn’t you want the Eucharist to be true.”
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