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MARY MOTHER OF JESUS, MOTHER OF GOD

MARY MOTHER OF JESUS, MOTHER OF GOD. Part IIIb Mary’s Immaculate Conception. “Rejoice, O highly favored daughter!” (Luke 1:28). The Language and Liturgy of the Church

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MARY MOTHER OF JESUS, MOTHER OF GOD

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  1. MARY MOTHER OF JESUS, MOTHER OF GOD Part IIIb Mary’s Immaculate Conception “Rejoice, O highly favored daughter!” (Luke 1:28)

  2. The Language and Liturgy of the Church The constant faith (paradosis) of the Church attests to the belief in the special preparation of the holiness of the person of Mary to bear in her body the most holy person of the Son of God. Post-Apostolic Implicitly found in the Fathers of the Church in the parallelism between Eve and Mary (Irenaeus, Lyons, 140? - 202?); Found in the more general terms about Mary: “holy,” “innocent,” “most pure,” “intact,” “immaculate” (Irenaeus, Lyons, 140?-202?; Ephraem, Syria, 306-373; Ambose, Milan, 373-397); Explicit language: Mary - free from original sin (Augustine, Hippo, 395-430 to Anselm, Normandy, 1033-1109). 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

  3. Liturgical Celebrations Eastern Church: celebrated a Feast of the Conception of Mary in the 8th to the 9th Century; Western Church: celebrated a Feast of the Conception of Mary in the 12th Century; A record of the feast in the 11th Century in Great Britain; in the 12th Century in Normandy; Record in many churches of a Feast of the Conception of Mary in France, Germany, Italy and Spain in the 12th Century (Bernard, Clairvaux, 1090-1153). 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

  4. 14th Century Was noted for the opposition to the Immaculate Conception from some of the great doctors of scholasticism. The celebration of the feast was not denied though. The difficulty arose from the meaning of the universal redemption through Christ. 15th Century Franciscan theologians solved the difficulty. Christ, the most perfect mediator, preserved Mary from original sin by an equally perfect act of healing. Duns Scotus (Scotland, 1266-1308) explained that the Immaculate Conception came through God's application of the grace of Christ beforehand. 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

  5. From 15th Century The Feast was universally celebrated; and Christian piety introduced an oath to defend the belief in the Immaculate Conception to be taken not only by Religious, but also by non-Religious and at the Universities (e.g., Paris, 1497; Cologne, 1499; Vienna, 1501). From the 17th Century The clause “to the shedding of blood” was added to the oath taken to defend the belief in the Immaculate Conception. Vienna Paris Cologne 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

  6. 1854 Pope Pius IX, infallibly defined, ex cathedra: The Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, and in view of the foreseen merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

  7. Naming Truths Nonbelievers and enemies of Catholic Christianity often accuse the Church of “creating” the belief in Mary’s freedom from original sin “the Immaculate Conception” in 1854 (as the Church named the belief of Mary's freedom from the wages of sin, death, “the Assumption” in 1950) when the truths were defined. Such an error is equivalent to saying that before Adam named the animals and birds of creation in Genesis 2:19-20 they did not exist. Or that before the early Church in her Ecumenical Councils named the belief of three persons in one God “the Trinity” and the belief that there are two natures, human and divine in the person of Jesus Christ “the Incarnation,” the truths did not exist. In naming the content of Divine Revelation after God has revealed it to us, the Church reflects a long Biblical tradition and practice.

  8. “I am the Immaculate Conception.” March 25, 1858

  9. BEFORE THEIR FALL BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY: the many drives of body and spirit; intellect (reasoning, seeking truth); will (choosing, seeking good); what makes them essentially human (beyond animal creation).

  10. BEFORE THEIR FALL GIFT OF INTEGRITY GIFT OF INTEGRITY BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY GIFT OF INTEGRITY: harmonious relation of body and spirit, keeping them in order--the spiritual controlling the material, the soul (reason) controlling the body (sensuality)--no concupiscence; no separation of the soul from the body (immortality); exemption from suffering (impassibility); know natural and supernatural truths (knowledge)

  11. BEFORE THEIR FALL GIFT OF GRACE GIFT OF GRACE GIFT OF INTEGRITY GIFT OF INTEGRITY BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY GIFT OF GRACE: sanctifying grace, making the soul holy, sharing God’s divinity--divinization; it is supernatural life--the stuff to permit them to live in heaven (just as the need for a breathing apparatus to remain in a water environment for a long period of time);

  12. AFTER THEIR FALL GIFT OF GRACE GIFT OF GRACE GIFT OF INTEGRITY GIFT OF INTEGRITY BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY: the many drives of body and spirit; intellect (reasoning, seeking truth); will (choosing, seeking good); what makes them essentially human (beyond animal creation) remain.

  13. THE GIFTS OF GOD TO MARY BASIC HUMANITY MARY OF NAZARETH, VIRGIN, MOTHER OF JESUS BASIC HUMANITY: Mary was endowed with the same humanity that Adam and all his descendants possessed: intellect, will, emotions, etc.

  14. THE GIFTS OF GOD TO MARY GIFT OF GRACE BASIC HUMANITY MARY OF NAZARETH, VIRGIN, MOTHER OF JESUS SANCTIFYING GRACE: “Hail Mary, full of grace …”

  15. THE GIFTS OF GOD TO MARY GIFT OF GRACE GIFT OF INTEGRITY BASIC HUMANITY MARY OF NAZARETH, VIRGIN, MOTHER OF JESUS GIFT OF INTEGRITY: “There are no grounds for ascribing to the Mother of God all of the gifts of grace possessed by Adam and Eve in their state of primitive innocence” (Ott, p. 198).

  16. ALL HUMANKIND AFTER ADAM AND EVE’S FALL ORIGINAL SIN ORIGINAL SIN BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY: the many drives of body and spirit; intellect (reasoning, seeking truth); will (choosing, seeking good); what makes them essentially human (beyond animal creation) remain.

  17. ALL HUMANKIND AFTER BAPTISM GIFT OF DIVINE LIFE GIFT OF DIVINE LIFE BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY BAPTISM: the waters of Baptism both cleanse from all sin including original sin and personal sin but also infuse sanctifying grace that prepares the believer for the holiness necessary for the possession of eternal life.

  18. ALL HUMANKIND AFTER BAPTISM GIFT OF DIVINE LIFE GIFT OF DIVINE LIFE GIFT OF GRACE GIFT OF INTEGRITY GIFT OF INTEGRITY GIFT OF INTEGRITY BASIC HUMANITY BASIC HUMANITY Descendants of Adam and Eve have no rightto the personal gifts to their first parents (integrity) any more than a son or daughter today would claim rights to money won in a lottery by their parents before the birth of children.

  19. End of Mary the Series: The Immaculate Conception, Part IIIb Go to Mary the Series, Her Perpetual Virginity, Part IVa

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