Did the Blessed Virgin Mary teach the Child Jesus Scriptures, divine mysteries and taught him how to pray to Abba Father?
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**Did the Blessed Virgin Mary teach the boy Jesus the Divine Mysteries and taught him how to pray?**
At the Annunciation, it was believed that Archangel Gabriel arrived while Mary was praying and studying scriptures.
> According to various Christian and Islamic traditions, the Archangel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would conceive a son, Jesus. While the canonical gospels (Luke 1:26–38) describe the event, known as the Annunciation, they do not specify Mary's exact activity when Gabriel appeared. The detail that Mary was praying or studying comes from later apocryphal and patristic sources, such as the Protoevangelium of James, which influenced artistic and theological depictions of the event over time .
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> The Protoevangelium of James: This second-century text mentions Mary was working on a veil for the Temple when she first heard a voice, then saw Gabriel.
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> **Later Patristic Writings:** Other early Christian writers expanded on the narrative,***sometimes placing Mary in a moment of intense prayer or deep study of scripture,*** emphasizing her piety and devotion when the divine messenger arrived.
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> Obviously, Jesus from birth to childhood lived in a House of Prayer, and learn how to pray and taught of divine mysteries from His beloved Mother, who learned the scriptures and mysteries thru meditation and contemplation.
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> **I am looking for writings based on Church traditions and extra-biblical writings, showing Mary teaching the child Jesus how to pray and explaining the scriptures and mysteries of God's Kingdom, and perhaps Mary narrate to baby Jesus the mysteries of annunciation, incarnation and His divine mission as Messiah.**
As Paul teaches that Jesus emptied Himself of divine majesty and power, so, in no way Jesus learn scriptures, the mysteries and His redemptive mission at a younf age, without the Theotokos telling or teaching Him this subject.
Also, the young Jesus at twelve, despite showing above wisdom from the Elders in the Tempole, still needs to grow in wisdom and stature, not by Himself, not by Jesus Alone, but thru submission and obedience to His parents.
> **The Boy Jesus at the Temple**
…51Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart. 52***And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature***, and in favor with God and man.
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