This Sunday, I would like for us to mediate on the second reading. Paul said: But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. (Galatians 1:13-17)
When Paul was Jerusalem, he met no one but the Lord's brother. Selah. This teaches us that Jesus Christ had siblings. The Bible says: Joseph did not know Mary till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. (Matthew 1:25) After Jesus was born Joseph and Mary consummated their marriage and had many more sons and daughters. The Bible says: Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with us?(Matthew 13:55-56)
A teaching about Mary would really not be necessary if the Papacy just preached the Truth.
Like Plato's allegory of the Cave we have been chained from birth and forced to spend our entire life believing the shadow. It is only the Truth that can set us free from the Cave. When we know the truth, we perceive the world around us differently. (Allegory of the Cave)
Although the Papacy teaches that Mary is a Virgin in Heaven, the truth is that Mary was a Virgin when Jesus was born but obviously lost her virginity when she and Joseph had sons and daughters. The time has come beloved brothers and sisters to arise to a new reality.
