Mary is Yawheh's Wife. The Bride of His Spirit. Yawheh is the King of Israel. Revelation 22: "The Spirit and the Bride say: "Come"" The Bride of the Spirit is a Person. Mary.
Saint Elizabeth calls Her Mother of the Lord, or Mother of Adonai, or Mother of God, proving the Council of Ephesus's Teaching in 431 AD that Mary is Theotokos. Saint Gabriel the Archangel and Saint Elizabeth the Wife of Saint Zechariah the Priest also prophesy the Holy Rosary and Mary Herself, Queen of Prophets, confirms it by prophesying: "All Generations will call ME Blessed".
See Sirach 24 also. Mary Herself, speaking to us by the Holy Spirit, says: "I am the Mother of Fair Love, of Knowledge, of Fear and of Holy Hope. In Me is all Grace of the Way, the Truth and of the Life". Whoever comes to Mary finds the Way of Life through Her Son very easily. See Revelation 12:1-17 on Mary's Queenship and Eternal Motherhood of all Believers. She is the Mother of Saint John (John 19:25-27) and us. She is the Queen Mother or Gebirah of 1 Kings 2.
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During the Council of Ephesus in 431, Pope Celestine I’s legate, Philip, declared that St. Peter "down even to today and forever both lives and judges in his successors."
He identified Pope Celestine I as Peter’s successor and representative as at that time.
And nobody at the council rose to object to that declaration.
It was during that council that Celestine had already pronounced judgment against Nestorius and commissioned Cyril of Alexandria to execute it in his name. Celestine I exhibited papal supremacy by issuing a unilateral excommunication from Rome, and the Patriarch of Constantinople didn't budge. Also, the entire Eastern church and the Roman Emperor didn't budge either, forcing the issue to a council.
The council subsequently confirmed Nestorius’s deposition without budging.
So when Orthodox Christians reduce the Pope to a merely ceremonial "first among equals," how does that make any sense when you try to reconcile that position with the historical record of Ephesus?
The Pope declares papal infallibility.
Orthbros: No! The Pope has no right to do that. He cannot claim infallibility!
The Pope dogmatises matters of faith.
Orthbros: No! The Pope cannot dogmatise matters of faith on his own. He must consult the East!
Meanwhile, at the Council of Ephesus in 431, when East and West were still united, Pope Celestine I unilaterally condemned Nestorius and ordered his deposition unless he repented, and nobody from the East budged.
The papal legates affirmed Peter’s authority over the Church until the end of the age, and nobody at the Council objected.