Sorry to see that you think the Virgin was biblically illiterate.
Oh, and it wasn't a contradiction by the way. It was a question...
Seems like you need to do some reading. Start with what I found on a Catholic website since Catholic sources are the only ones you will listen to.
"What is this plan that Jesus has for you and for me? We get a little bit of a hint of this plan in today’s Gospel. Here we have the story of the Annunciation. The Angel Gabriel said to Mary that she has been chosen to be the mother of the Messiah. Now, when God calls three things happen. First of all it appears that God calls us for something that seems to be impossible to achieve. Mary was asked to be the mother of the Messiah. Every Jewish girl had this hope to become the mother of the Messiah. But there was a problem. She was not married. Similarly if we read about the call of the Prophets and about the call of the great men and women in the Old and New Testament, God asked them to do things which seem to be rather difficult to achieve. Very difficult indeed!"
it wasn't a contradiction by the way. It was a question...
Please...
- You will be the virgin in Isaiah 7
- How can this be if I am a virgin?
Makes sense?
The scripture does not tell us if Mary, or anyone else, "had this hope to become the mother of the Messiah". May be she did, but that is not what the text of Luke 1 reveals, and I go by the scripture in this instance.