Chapter, Paragraph
1 I,2 | Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, in the Mystery of Christ
2 I,2 | of intimate union with God and of the unity of the
3 I,2 | presence of the Mother of God in the mystery of the Church
4 I,2 | the biblical "beginning": "God created man in his own image,
5 I,2 | own image, in the image of God he created him; male and
6 II | II~WOMAN-MOTHER OF GOD~(THEOTÓKOS)~
7 II,3 | Union with God ~3. "When the time had fully
8 II,3 | the time had fully come, God sent forth his son, born
9 II,3 | mystery "pre-determined in God" (cf. Eph 1:9). The Son,
10 II,3 | human spirit in search of God - at times as it were "groping
11 II,3 | emphasizes the response of God himself, "in whom we live
12 II,3 | Acts 17:28). This is the God who "in many and various
13 II,3 | and definitive point of God's self-revelation to humanity.
14 II,3 | his goodness and wisdom, God chose to reveal himself
15 II,3 | The self-revelation of God, who is the inscrutable
16 II,3 | called holy, the Son of God... For with God nothing
17 II,3 | the Son of God... For with God nothing will be impossible" (
18 II,3 | definitive answer by which God himself "attempts to calm
19 II,3 | not just a matter here of God's words revealed through
20 II,3 | Mary attains a union with God that exceeds all the expectations
21 II,3 | impossible with men, but not with God" (cf. Mk 10: 27).~
22 II,4 | elevation to union with God in Jesus Christ, which determines
23 II,4 | of union with the living God which can only belong to
24 II,4 | truly becomes the Mother of God.~This truth, which Christian
25 II,4 | a man who was the Son of God, of one substance with the
26 II,4 | she is truly the Mother of God, because motherhood concerns
27 II,4 | proper to the union with God granted to the Virgin Mary.~
28 II,4 | of the "Theotókos" with God - which fulfils in the most
29 II,4 | subject of that union with God which was realized in the
30 II,4 | with the Father. All of God's action in human history
31 II,5 | the truth revealed about God and man. In the expression "
32 II,5 | awareness of being a creature of God. The word "handmaid", near
33 II,5 | reality "Woman - Mother of God", we enter in a very appropriate
34 II,5 | definitive measure in union with God. Mary, the woman of the
35 II,5 | the image and likeness of God, can in any way attain fulfilment
36 III | THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD~
37 III,6 | the image and likeness" of God constitutes the immutable
38 III,6 | Christian anthropology.22"God created man in his own image,
39 III,6 | own image, in the image of God he created him; male and
40 III,6 | degree, both are created in God's image. This image and
41 III,6 | This image and likeness of God, which is essential for
42 III,6 | likeness of the personal God. What makes man like God
43 III,6 | God. What makes man like God is the fact that - unlike
44 III,6 | the image and likeness of God.~In the description found
45 III,6 | the woman is created by God "from the rib" of the man
46 III,6 | biblical account speaks of God's instituting marriage as
47 III,7 | the image and likeness of God (cf. Gen 1:26-27), we can
48 III,7 | both man and woman are like God. For every individual is
49 III,7 | is made in the image of God, insofar as he or she is
50 III,7 | creature capable of knowing God and loving him. Moreover,
51 III,7 | the image and likeness of God thus also involves existing
52 III,7 | self-revelation of the Triune God: a living unity in the communion
53 III,7 | the oneness and unity of God. Within this fundamental
54 III,7 | fundamental truth about God the New Testament will reveal
55 III,7 | the inscrutable mystery of God's inner life. God, who allows
56 III,7 | mystery of God's inner life. God, who allows himself to be
57 III,7 | s image and likeness to God, spoken of in the Book of
58 III,7 | and woman" is the image of God means not only that each
59 III,7 | them individually is like God, as a rational and free
60 III,7 | communion of love that is in God, through which the Three
61 III,7 | Son and Holy Spirit, one God through the unity of the
62 III,7 | understand the truth that God in himself is love (cf.
63 III,7 | The image and likeness of God in man, created as man and
64 III,7 | the image and likeness of God which the human being bears
65 III,7 | itself, in accordance with God's will, the integration
66 III,7 | Persons and the union of God's children in truth and
67 III,7 | creature on earth which God willed for its own sake,
68 III,7 | of the visible world that God the Creator"has willed for
69 III,7 | interpretation of the person is God himself as Trinity, as a
70 III,7 | the image and likeness of God means that man is called
71 III,8 | the image and likeness of God" at the very beginning of
72 III,8 | understanding biblical Revelation as God's word about himself. Speaking
73 III,8 | 1:1, 2) who became man, God speaks in human language,
74 III,8 | reason is that man is "like" God: created in his image and
75 III,8 | and likeness. But then, God too is in some measure "
76 III,8 | while man's "likeness" to God is true, the "non-likeness"
77 III,8 | Although man is created in God's likeness, God does not
78 III,8 | created in God's likeness, God does not cease to be for
79 III,8 | limits of man's likeness to God in biblical language - must
80 III,8 | comparisons that attribute to God "masculine" or "feminine"
81 III,8 | the image and likeness of God. If there is a likeness
82 III,8 | the Bible would refer to God using expressions that attribute
83 III,8 | 13). In the Psalms too God is compared to a caring
84 III,8 | various passages the love of God who cares for his people
85 III,8 | mother: thus, like a mother God "has carried" humanity,
86 III,8 | 3-4). In many passages God's love is presented as the "
87 III,8 | anthropomorphic way of speaking about God - points indirectly to the
88 III,8 | belongs to the inner life of God. Nevertheless, in itself
89 III,8 | most perfect way, since "God is spirit" (Jn 4:24) and
90 III,8 | Thus even "fatherhood" in God is completely divine and
91 III,8 | the Old Testament spoke of God as a Father and turned to
92 III,8 | Jesus Christ - who called God "Abba Father" (Mk 14: 36),
93 III,8 | generation of the Word of God, and although the divine
94 III,8 | must nevertheless seek in God the absolute model of all "
95 III,8 | that generating which in God is completely divine, that
96 III,8 | that "fatherhood" which in God is "totally different",
97 IV,9 | Although he was made by God in a state of justice, from
98 IV,9 | Man set himself against God and sought to find fulfilment
99 IV,9 | find fulfilment apart from God".28 With these words the
100 IV,9 | in the world created by God.~It is not possible to read "
101 IV,9 | image and likeness" to God, which is the basis of biblical
102 IV,9 | in the intimate life of God himself. In the light of
103 IV,9 | the image and likeness of God in man, since this truth
104 IV,9 | evil, against the will of God. In its essence, however,
105 IV,9 | however, sin is a negation of God as Creator in his relationship
106 IV,9 | relationship to man, and of what God wills for man, from the
107 IV,9 | own image and likeness, God wills for them the fullness
108 IV,9 | time wills to become "as God, knowing good and evil" (
109 IV,9 | is evil independently of God, his Creator. The sin of
110 IV,9 | original justice: union with God as the source of the unity
111 IV,9 | the sin of man, created by God as male and female. It is
112 IV,9 | the image and likeness of God. By means of this reference
113 IV,9 | of that "non-likeness" to God in which sin consists, and
114 IV,9 | of that "non-likeness" to God, who "alone is good" (cf.
115 IV,9 | sin's "non-likeness" to God, who is Holiness itself,
116 IV,9 | It must be admitted that God, as Creator and Father,
117 IV,9 | that gift which belongs to God's eternal plan for man.~
118 IV,9 | image and the likeness of God in the human being, whether
119 IV,9 | the image and likeness of God by his very nature as a
120 IV,9 | achieved in the covenant with God, in union with him, in striving
121 IV,9 | through the eternal choice of God in Jesus: "He chose us in (
122 IV,10 | creature on earth which God willed for its own sake";
123 IV,10 | the image and likeness of God in both of them. But this
124 IV,10 | and a right deriving from God the Creator, involves an
125 IV,10 | of the Word revealed by God. In it is expressed the
126 IV,10 | the "image and likeness of God" that is specifically hers.
127 IV,11 | the image and likeness of God and the truth about original
128 IV,11 | and definitive Covenant of God with humanity has its beginning,
129 IV,11 | the history of his people, God addressed himself to women,
130 IV,11 | the image and likeness of God, and based on the model
131 IV,11 | communion of Persons which is God himself. Saint Paul states
132 IV,11 | to the eternal design of God the Creator. Precisely for
133 IV,11 | being as male and female "God saw everything that he had
134 IV,11 | the fact that the Son of God, who is of one substance
135 IV,11 | Redemption presupposes that God the Son assumed humanity
136 IV,11 | therefore in the eternal mind of God: in the bosom of the Most
137 IV,11 | Lk1:32), the "holy one" of God; but they can also signify
138 IV,11 | of the "woman", just as God wanted her to be, a person
139 IV,11 | with a clear awareness of God's gift, of his generosity.
140 V,12 | harlots go into the Kingdom of God before you" (Mt 21:31).~
141 V,12 | heart". He was a witness of God's eternal plan for the human
142 V,12 | female and their ordering by God himself, which is based
143 V,12 | the law which comes from God himself: "What therefore
144 V,12 | himself: "What therefore God has joined together, let
145 V,13 | Good News of the Kingdom of God; and they "provided for
146 V,13 | truth about the Kingdom of God. This is the case in the
147 V,13 | dignity of man, his worth in God's eyes. He himself, the
148 V,13 | reflects the eternal plan of God, who, in creating each one
149 V,13 | creature on earth which God willed for its own sake".
150 V,14 | the image and likeness of God himself. This entrusting
151 V,14 | eternal source in the heart of God. And in the temporal conditions
152 V,15 | most profound mysteries of God with her. He speaks to her
153 V,15 | her. He speaks to her of God's infinite gift of love,
154 V,15 | He speaks to her about God who is Spirit, and about
155 V,15 | are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the
156 V,15 | women about the things of God, and they understand them;
157 V,16 | and to your Father, to my God and your God'. Mary Magdalene
158 V,16 | Father, to my God and your God'. Mary Magdalene went and
159 V,16 | the image and likeness of God. Both of them are equally
160 V,16 | life "the mighty works of God" (Acts 2: 11), preserving
161 V,16 | to the "mighty works of God" - manifested so clearly
162 V,16 | of the "mighty works of God", of which the woman becomes
163 VI,17 | the Mother of the Son of God. These two dimensions of
164 VI,17 | given to you exclusively by God, in a manner known to God.
165 VI,17 | God, in a manner known to God. Mary, therefore, maintained
166 VI,17 | person of the Mother of God helps everyone - especially
167 VI,18 | being in the world which God willed for its own sake.
168 VI,18 | the image and likeness of God. This is not a purely theoretical
169 VI,18 | in the creative power of God!~The woman's motherhood
170 VI,18 | generation, which is in God himself, the one and Triune
171 VI,18 | himself, the one and Triune God (cf. Eph 3:14-15), is reflected
172 VI,19 | motherhood of the Mother of God. The words of the Proto-evangelium - "
173 VI,19 | Let it be done to me") - God begins a New Covenant with
174 VI,19 | come to do your will, O God" (cf. Heb 10:5, 7).~Motherhood
175 VI,19 | order of the Covenant that God made with humanity in Jesus
176 VI,19 | related to the Covenant which God established with the human
177 VI,19 | motherhood of the Mother of God.~Does not Jesus bear witness
178 VI,19 | those who hear the word of God and keep it" (Lk 11:27-28).
179 VI,19 | sign of the Covenant with God who "is spirit" (Jn 4: 24).
180 VI,19 | motherhood of the Mother of God. The motherhood of every
181 VI,19 | to the word of the living God" and a readiness to "safeguard"
182 VI,19 | receive from the Son of God the power to become "children
183 VI,19 | power to become "children of God" (Jn 1:12). A dimension
184 VI,19 | revelation of the children of God" (cf. Rom 8: 19).~"When
185 VI,20 | eschatological vocation to union with God. He then adds: "He who is
186 VI,20 | special grace on the part of God, who calls a particular
187 VI,20 | special sign of the Kingdom of God to come, it also serves
188 VI,20 | of greater closeness to God was not entirely foreign
189 VI,20 | with the incarnation of God.~From the moment of Christ'
190 VI,20 | expectation of the People of God has to be directed to the
191 VI,20 | comes to Mary as a gift from God himself. This gift is the
192 VI,20 | the Eternal Covenant, to God's new and definitive promise:
193 VI,20 | exclusive dedication to God by virtue of the evangelical
194 VI,20 | becoming "a sincere gift" for God who has revealed himself
195 VI,22 | to the "mighty works of God" (Acts 2:11). Moreover,
196 VI,22 | of the "mighty works of God" that Saint Paul, as a man,
197 VI,22 | brought forth is He whom God placed as the first-born
198 VI,22 | becomes a mother by accepting God's word in faith. For by
199 VI,22 | Holy Spirit and born of God".45 This is motherhood "
200 VI,22 | one looks to the Mother of God, it is impossible to understand
201 VI,22 | There is an analogy in God's salvific economy: if we
202 VII,23 | the image and likeness of God as a "unity of the two",
203 VII,23 | only one text. This is how God speaks to his Chosen People
204 VII,23 | Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is
205 VII,23 | she is cast off, says your God. For a brief moment I forsook
206 VII,23 | woman - has been created in God's image and likeness, God
207 VII,23 | God's image and likeness, God can speak about himself
208 VII,23 | above, the expression of God's love is "human", but the
209 VII,23 | itself is divine. Since it is God's love, its spousal character
210 VII,23 | The woman-bride is Israel, God's Chosen People, and this
211 VII,23 | originates exclusively in God's gratuitous love. It is
212 VII,23 | marriage covenant which God always renews with his Chosen
213 VII,23 | Chosen People. On the part of God the Covenant is a lasting "
214 VII,25 | a symbolic dimension. If God's love for the human person,
215 VII,25 | and non-human character of God's love: "For your Maker
216 VII,25 | is your husband ... the God of the whole earth he is
217 VII,25 | Christ the Redeemer: "For God so loved the world that
218 VII,25 | a matter, therefore, of God's love expressed by means
219 VII,25 | subject is the People of God, a community made up of
220 VII,25 | community, as the People of God. At the same time, in this
221 VII,25 | is precisely this love of God which is expressed in the
222 VII,25 | truth about the love of God who "first loved us" (cf.
223 VII,25 | consubstantial with the Father as God - became the son of Mary;
224 VII,25 | of the divine love which God has for Israel, for the
225 VII,26 | true, and teach the way of God truthfully, and care for
226 VII,26 | reveals the spousal love of God. Christ is the Bridegroom
227 VII,26 | to the spousal meaning of God's love. As the Redeemer
228 VII,26 | a relationship willed by God both in the mystery of creation
229 VII,27 | holy and acceptable to God (cf. Rom 12:1), give witness
230 VII,27 | the Church, the People of God, with Christ. It expresses
231 VII,27 | the Holy Spirit", since "God's love has been poured into
232 VII,27 | daughters" of the People of God, thus fulfilling the words
233 VII,27 | mission of the whole People of God. They are the holy martyrs,
234 VII,27 | union and freedom rooted in God explain, for example, the
235 VIII,29| the image and likeness of God (cf. Gen 1:27; 5:1). The
236 VIII,29| women both in the eyes of God - the Creator and Redeemer -
237 VIII,29| beíngs - men and women. In God's eternal plan, woman is
238 VIII,29| to the intimate life of God himself, the life of the
239 VIII,29| In lhe intimate life of God, the Holy Spirit is the
240 VIII,29| persons. Love, which is of God, communicates itself to
241 VIII,29| communicates itself to creatures: "God's love has been poured into
242 VIII,29| conditions so that "the love of God may be poured into the hearts"
243 VIII,29| and woman - is loved by God in Christ. But in the context
244 VIII,29| in the Virgin Mother of God. She emphasizes, in the
245 VIII,30| only creature on earth that God willed for its own sake,
246 VIII,30| as a person created in God's image, whether man or
247 VIII,30| created and "placed" by God in this order of love. The
248 VIII,30| fundamental "yes" or "no" to God and God's eternal plan for
249 VIII,30| yes" or "no" to God and God's eternal plan for humanity?~
250 VIII,30| joined to her awareness that God entrusts the human being
251 VIII,30| special way. Of course, God entrusts every human being
252 VIII,30| because of the fact that God "entrusts the human being
253 VIII,30| which they receive from God himself, and this makes
254 VIII,30| human being is entrusted by God to women in a particular
255 VIII,30| through the Spirit, so that God may be "everything to everyone" (
256 IX,31 | If you knew the gift of God ~31. "If you knew the gift
257 IX,31 | If you knew the gift of God" (Jn 4:10), Jesus says to
258 IX,31 | recognize, within the "gift of God", what he, as Creator and
259 IX,31 | for the "great works of God", which throughout human
260 IX,31 | history - the incarnation of God himself - was accomplished?~
261 IX,31 | for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women
262 IX,31 | forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness
263 IX,31 | the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of
264 IX,31 | history of the People of God, for all the victories which
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