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501 V,13 | impure". Each of them was healed, and the last-mentioned -
502 V,13 | woman was asking for the healing of her daughter.~Sometimes
503 VI,20 | indissolubility of marriage. Having heard the answer given to the
504 V,12 | filled the self-satisfied hearers of Christ's words: "the
505 II,5 | responds to the words of the heavenly messenger with her "fiat",
506 V,16 | turned and said to him in Hebrew, 'Rabbuni' (which means
507 VII,27 | Kiev, Matilda of Tuscany, Hedwig of Silesia, Jadwiga of Cracow,
508 IV,11 | and you shall bruise his heel". It is significant that
509 II,4 | opinion of Nestorius, who held that Mary was only the mother
510 IV,11 | a certain sense, he has helped man to discover "who he
511 | Herein
512 VI,22 | one can have no adequate hermeneutic of man, or of what is "human",
513 V,13 | Joanna, who was the wife of Herod's steward, Susanna and "
514 | hers
515 VII,23 | overflowing wrath for a moment I hid my face from you, but with
516 VII,27 | the Church possesses a "hierarchical" structure,53 nevertheless
517 VII,27 | tradition, recalled that in the hierarchy of holiness it is precisely
518 VIII,29| their femininity finds its highest expression in the Virgin
519 V,15 | Simon the Leper; they also highlight the fact that women were
520 II,4 | however, the event at Nazareth highlights a form of union with the
521 III,6 | anthropological truths: man is the highpoint of the whole order of creation
522 VII,23 | mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast
523 V,14 | enters into the concrete and historical situation of women, a situation
524 VIII,30| vocation. Woman can only hnd herself by giving love to
525 V,16 | Jesus said to her, 'Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended
526 VIII,28| transformations. The Church "holds that in her Lord and Master
527 IX,31 | which is the temporal "homeland" of all people and is transformed
528 V,13 | with perfumed oil. To his host, who is scandalized by this,
529 VII,23 | your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy
530 V,13 | extols for her faith, her humility and for that greatness of
531 VIII,29| Holy Spirit is the personal hypostasis of love. Through the Spirit,
532 IV,11 | Saint Paul will write (ibid.).~These words concern that
533 VI,20 | more to the fundamental idea of Christian anthropology.
534 III,6 | indicates her essential identity with regard to man - 'is-'
535 II | II~WOMAN-MOTHER OF GOD~(THEOTÓKOS)~
536 III | III~THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF
537 V,13 | eyes. We meet women with illnesses or physical sufferings,
538 III,8 | using human concepts and images. If this manner of expressing
539 II,3 | a thing was difficult to imagine. Only by the power of the
540 II,3 | them, however, could have imagined that the promised Messiah
541 I,1 | a transformation, women imbued with a spirit of the Gospel
542 VI,22 | brings forth to a new and immortal life children who are conceived
543 I,2 | woman - a truth which is immutably fixed in human experience -
544 VII,27 | women have had a significant impact on the life of the Church
545 IX,31 | With these sentiments, I impart the Apostolic Blessing to
546 III,7 | to human reason. For he implied a certain likeness between
547 VI,21 | children, young people, the imprisoned and, in general, people
548 V,13 | touch would make a person "impure". Each of them was healed,
549 VII,27 | Christ, both men and women, inasmuch as they must "present their
550 I,2 | mystery which only in "the Incarnate Word takes on light... (
551 VI,18 | taken as a whole, should include the contribution of both
552 IV,9 | there is no doubt that, independent of this "distinction of
553 VI,18 | for it gives an essential indication of what it means to be human,
554 V,12 | greater dismay, or even "holy indignation", must have filled the self-satisfied
555 III,8 | find in these passages an indirect confirmation of the truth
556 III,7 | not only that each of them individually is like God, as a rational
557 VII,24 | forms of slavery to which individuals and peoples are subjected,
558 IX,31 | himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.~The Church gives
559 VIII,30| this text an echo of the Infancy Narrative (cf. Mt 2:13,16),
560 V,15 | He speaks to her of God's infinite gift of love, which is like
561 V,13 | one who had "a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she
562 I,1 | acquire in the world an influence, an effect and a power never
563 V,15 | proclaims Christ to the inhabitants of Samaria, so that they
564 V,12 | sin, of that "mystery of iniquity" working in human hearts
565 VI,18 | the baby, especially the initial period. The child's upbringing,
566 IV,10 | against all the objectively injurious and unjust situations which
567 V,14 | transgressions, of your "male" injustice, your misdeeds?~This truth
568 V,12 | in man" (Jn 2:25), in his innermost being, in his "heart". He
569 VI,18 | intuition what is happening inside her. In the light of the "
570 VII,26 | of the Declaration Inter Insigniores, published at the behest
571 III,7 | made in the image of God, insofar as he or she is a rational
572 V,14 | This is one of the few instances in which his power - the
573 | instead
574 VI,18 | remaining closed within her own instincts ("your desire shall be for
575 VI,20 | as a starting point for instructing them on the value of celibacy.
576 VI,22 | with virginal purity an integral faith, a firm hope, and
577 III,7 | accordance with God's will, the integration of what is "masculine" and
578 IV,9 | profound truth concerning all intelligent creatures and in particular
579 I,1 | society.~This is what I intend to deal with in this document.
580 IV,11 | finds the "woman" as she was intended to be in creation, and therefore
581 II,3 | our sorrows, and to what intent? Where lies the path to
582 VII,26 | teaching of the Declaration Inter Insigniores, published at
583 VIII,29| society and structure the interaction between all persons - men
584 IV,9 | unity which belongs to the internal "logic" of the very mystery
585 III,7 | found in Gen 2:18-25, and by interpreting it in light of the truth
586 IV,11 | Old Testament, in order to intervene in the history of his people,
587 I,2 | Gen 3:15;Jn 2:4; 19:16) - intimately belongs to the salvific
588 I | I~INTRODUCTION~Venerable Brothers and dear
589 VI,18 | understands" with unique intuition what is happening inside
590 IX,31 | the same time that these invaluable "manifestations of the Spirit" (
591 III,7 | is rooted, the solid and inviolable ground amid the many changes
592 VI,21 | a renunciation that can involve great sacrifice for a woman,
593 VI,19 | nevertheless profoundly involved in that process. At the
594 VIII,30| destroy this order, nor irreversibly cancel it out. This is proved
595 IV,11 | which is to be eternal and irrevocable, there is a woman: the Virgin
596 III,6 | identity with regard to man - 'is-'issah - something which
597 V,15 | forgiven little, loves ]ittle" (Lk 7:47). On the occasion
598 IV | IV~EVE-MARY~
599 IX | IX~CONCLUSION~
600 VII,27 | Tuscany, Hedwig of Silesia, Jadwiga of Cracow, Elizabeth of
601 V,13 | there is the daughter of Jairus, whom Jesus brings back
602 VII,23 | Corinthians: "I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed
603 III,8 | father (cf. Hosea 11:1-4; Jer 3:4-19), but also sometimes
604 VII,23 | especially in the prophets Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Isaiah.48 The
605 V,16 | by the fact that one is a Jew or a Greek, slave or free,
606 VI,20 | entirely foreign to certain Jewish circles, especially in the
607 V,16 | daughters shall prophesy" (Jl 3:1). On the fiftieth day
608 VII,27 | Thuringia, Birgitta of Sweden, Joan of Arc, Rose of Lima, Elizabeth
609 V,13 | means". The Gospel names Joanna, who was the wife of Herod'
610 VII,27 | the words of the prophet Joel (cf. Acts 2: 17). These
611 VI,20 | to a man whose name was Joseph" (cf. Lk 1:27), she is firm
612 V,13 | also accompanied him as he journeyed with the Apostles through
613 V,15 | action before the disciples, Judas in particular: "Why do you
614 VI,19 | hear the word of God and keep it" (Lk 11:27-28). Jesus
615 VI,22 | herself is a virgin, who keeps whole and pure the fidelity
616 VI,19 | is perhaps the deepest 'kenosis' of faith in human history".
617 III,8 | language - must also be kept in mind when, in different
618 VII,27 | Augustine, Macrina, Olga of Kiev, Matilda of Tuscany, Hedwig
619 VII,27 | also in the prophetic and kingly mission of Christ the Messiah.
620 III,8 | the Ephesians: "I bow my knees before the Father, from
621 V,13 | popular opinion contemptuously labelled sinners, public sinners
622 V,15 | Dolorosa, "who bewailed and lamented him" (Lk 23:27). Earlier
623 III,6 | which unfortunately modern languages in general are unable to
624 V,13 | them was healed, and the last-mentioned - the one with a flow of
625 VII,25 | from men, all the richness lavished upon women in the mystery
626 VI,18 | contribution is decisive in laying the foundation for a new
627 II,3 | fullness of time". This event leads to the turning point of
628 VI,18 | in many ways he has to learn his own "fatherhood" from
629 | least
630 V,13 | coin (cf. Lk 15: 8-10), the leaven (cf. Mt 13:33), and the
631 V,14 | period of history. A woman is left alone, exposed to public
632 VII,26 | service of the Apostles, it is legitimate to conclude that he thereby
633 V,15 | in the house of Simon the Leper; they also highlight the
634 VII,24 | Genesis.49~The apostolic letters are addressed to people
635 VIII,29| Testament (cf. Deut 6:5; Lev 19:18) and placed by Christ
636 III,7 | that - on this fundamental level - it is a question of a "
637 VIII,29| life of the Trinity. In lhe intimate life of God, the
638 V,15 | sinfulness". They feel "liberated" by this truth, restored
639 IV,9 | of history man abused his liberty, at the urging of the Evil
640 III,8 | the created world is to be likened to this absolute and uncreated
641 VII,27 | Sweden, Joan of Arc, Rose of Lima, Elizabeth Ann Seton and
642 IV,11 | sense, a going beyond the limit spoken of in the Book of
643 V,16 | man or a woman involves no limitation here, just as the salvific
644 VII,25 | Jesus" (Gal 3:28).~From a linguistic viewpoint we can say that
645 VIII,29| direct way, the intimate linking of the order of love - which
646 V,15 | Lazarus" (cf. Jn 11:5). Mary "listened to the teaching" of Jesus:
647 V,13 | used to illustrate for his listeners the truth about the Kingdom
648 VI,19 | it expresses a profound "listening to the word of the living
649 VI,18 | shared generation, which literally absorbs the energies of
650 V,15 | Sometimes he presents this lively faith, filled with love,
651 IV,11 | Son of the Most High" (Lk1:32), the "holy one" of God;
652 VI,19 | you have prepared for me. Lo, I have come to do your
653 III,7 | dimensions will find their loftiest expression at the "fullness
654 V,14 | as a task" to man. Christ logically appeals to man's responsibility.
655 VI,19 | delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for
656 V,15 | were also many women there, looking on from afar, who had followed
657 IV,10 | instead will deform and lose what constitutes their essential
658 III,7 | capable of knowing God and loving him. Moreover, we read that
659 VI,17 | Annunciation in the Gospel of Luke clearly shows that this
660 I,2 | Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium. The title of this
661 V,14 | while behind "her" sin there lurks a man - a sinner, guilty "
662 V,14 | one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery
663 VII,27 | the mother of Augustine, Macrina, Olga of Kiev, Matilda of
664 I,1 | statements of the Church's Magisterium present in various documents
665 VII,23 | great mystery" ("sacramentum magnum"). ~The covenant proper
666 VI,17 | to God. Mary, therefore, maintained her virginal "I have no
667 VIII,28| human history", and she "maintains that beneath all changes
668 VIII,30| in particular awaits the manifestation of that "genius" which belongs
669 III,7 | chapter on "The Community of Mankind" in the Pastoral Constitution
670 VI,19 | it places an essential "mark" on the whole personal growth
671 VI,20 | it is not expedient to marry" (Mt 19: 10). Independently
672 VII,27 | of God. They are the holy martyrs, virgins, and mothers of
673 IV,10 | any condition lead to the "masculinization" of women. In the name of
674 IV,10 | self" is responded to and matched by a corresponding "gift"
675 I,2 | the Encyclical Redemptoris Mater points out.9 This Encyclical
676 VIII,30| make it possible to attain material well-being to a degree hitherto
677 VI,18 | would go hand in hand with a materialistic concept of the human being
678 VII,27 | Macrina, Olga of Kiev, Matilda of Tuscany, Hedwig of Silesia,
679 VI,22 | recorded in the Gospel of Matthew (19: 10-12); he does so
680 | maybe
681 IV,11 | new Eve", what are the meanings of this analogy? Certainly
682 VI,20 | expectation on the part of all. It measures up to the Eternal Covenant,
683 V,12 | Jesus of Nazareth, and his meeting with each of them is a confirmation
684 V,13 | attitude to the women whom he meets in the course of his Messianic
685 V,15 | has done will be told in memory of her" (Mt 26: 6-13).~Indeed,
686 VII,26 | conform with the widespread mentality of his times, does not at
687 V,13 | expression of affectionate mercy: "He had compassion on her
688 VI,20 | virginity is not restricted to a mere "no", but contains a profound "
689 IV,10 | of masculinity: they are merely different. Hence a woman,
690 V,13 | Sometimes the women whom Jesus met and who received so many
691 III,6 | say, more descriptive and metaphorical, closer to the language
692 IX,31 | course of history, in the midst of all peoples and nations;
693 V,15 | followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him" (Mt 27: 55). As
694 VII,26 | unambiguous when the sacramental ministry of the Eucharist, in which
695 III,7 | love, and in this way to mirror in the world the communion
696 V,14 | your "male" injustice, your misdeeds?~This truth is valid for
697 VI,20 | disciples, Christ takes their mistaken opinion as a starting point
698 V,13 | the story of the widow's mite. While "the rich were putting
699 VI,22 | understand precisely this mode of being of the human person.
700 II,3 | links together the principal moments which essentially determine
701 VII,27 | Saint Teresa of Jesus in the monastic life.~In our own days too
702 VII,27 | It suffices to mention: Monica, the mother of Augustine,
703 II,3 | basis of the Old Testament's monotheistic faith such a thing was difficult
704 VIII,30| with the sun", with the moon under her feet, and on her
705 VI,19 | suffering either physically or morally. In this suffering a woman'
706 V,12 | they have on their side the Mosaic legislation then followed
707 V,13 | Lk 13:11); or Simon's mother-in-law, who "lay sick with a fever" (
708 VI,21 | different kind of motherhood: motherhoad "according to the Spirit" (
709 V,14 | say in the Sermon on the Mount: "Every one who looks at
710 VII,23 | your Redeemer. ... For the mountains may depart and the hills
711 VI,21 | persons which flourish within Movements, Groups and Associations.
712 VII,27 | threefold mission (tria munera Christi); united in such
713 VI,22 | Moreover, contemplating Mary's mysterious sanctity, imitating her
714 III,6 | closer to the language of the myths known at the time. Nevertheless,
715 V,13 | There also is the widow of Nain, whose only son Jesus brings
716 III,8 | in heaven and on earth is named" (3:14-15). All "generating"
717 VI,20 | celibacy which results from natural defects - even though they
718 II,5 | God. The word "handmaid", near the end of the Annunciation
719 IX,31 | humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive
720 IV,9 | all this is marked by the necessity of death, which is the end
721 VI,21 | people, especially the most needy: the sick, the handicapped,
722 IV,10 | from sin: from what offends neighbour, what "diminishes" man,
723 V,13 | Messiah and runs to tell her neighbours. The conversation leading
724 II,4 | opposition to the opinion of Nestorius, who held that Mary was
725 V,12 | confirmation of the evangelical "newness of life" already spoken
726 V,13 | villages, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom of God; and
727 | next
728 VII,26 | Eucharist. On Easter Sunday night they receive the Holy Spirit
729 IV,11 | addressed himself only to men: Noah, Abraham, and Moses. At
730 VI,21 | communal forms but also of non-communal forms. In brief, virginity
731 VII,25 | quality and the divine and non-human character of God's love: "
732 | none
733 VII,25 | time leaving ample room for nonlikeness.~This is easily seen in
734 III,8 | Gospel, thus establishing the norm of Christian prayer - referred
735 V,14 | abolish" the evil of this sin. Normally a woman's conscience does
736 VII,27 | The apostolic writings note their names, such as Phoebe, "
737 VIII,30| revelation. It is also to be noted how the same Woman, who
738 IV,11 | there are many. Particularly noteworthy is the meaning which sees
739 V,14 | And yet his sin escapes notice, it is passed over in silence:
740 III,8 | birth to it in travail, has nourished and comforted it (cf. Is
741 VII,23 | hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ
742 VI,20 | particular, chastity, poverty and obedience. Their perfect incarnation
743 IV,10 | argument against all the objectively injurious and unjust situations
744 III,8 | the "totally Other".~This observation on the limits of the analogy -
745 IX,31 | perfect union with Christ",63 obtain for all of us this same "
746 VI,17 | the divine messenger, and obtains from him the explanation: "
747 V,16 | Nazareth - constitutes the most obvious basis for the dignity and
748 VIII,30| on the particular place occupied by the "woman" in this key
749 I,1 | of the Synod of Bishops (October 1987), which was devoted
750 | off
751 IV,10 | also the one who causes the offence. This is the unchangeable
752 IV,10 | whenever man is responsible for offending a woman's personal dignity
753 VIII,28| can through his Spirit offer man the light and the strength
754 II,4 | name "Theotókos" - Mother ofGod - became the name proper
755 V,15 | to me... In pouring this ointment on my body she has done
756 II,3 | which, today, even as in olden times, deeply stir the human
757 VII,27 | mother of Augustine, Macrina, Olga of Kiev, Matilda of Tuscany,
758 VI,22 | human history, we cannot omit, in the perspective of our
759 VII,24 | the "subjection" is not one-sided but mutual.~In relation
760 III,7 | revealing the truth about the oneness and unity of God. Within
761 III,8 | 14: 36), and who as the only-begotten and consubstantial Son placed
762 III,7 | are one' (Jn 17: 21-22), opened up vistas closed to human
763 V,12 | male and female and their ordering by God himself, which is
764 VII,27 | participation determines the organic unity of the Church, the
765 IV,10 | of that "ethos" which was originally inscribed by the Creator
766 VII,23 | People, and this choice originates exclusively in God's gratuitous
767 VI,21 | handicapped, the abandoned, orphans, the elderly, children,
768 III,7 | discern, in preliminary outline, the spousal character of
769 IV,10 | description in the Book of Genesis outlines the truth about the consequences
770 V,16 | capable of receiving the outpouring of divine truth and love
771 VI,18 | parenthood - always remains "outside" the process of pregnancy
772 | overall
773 VII,23 | compassion I will gather you. In overflowing wrath for a moment I hid
774 II,3 | of the Holy Spirit, who "overshadowed" her, was Mary able to accept
775 VIII,30| These "perfect women" are owed much by their families,
776 I,1 | Discourses4 and in the Encyclical Pacem in Terris of Pope John XXIII.
777 V,13 | Gospel ~13. As we scan the pages of the Gospel, many women,
778 IV,9 | and likewise the great "pain" with which the woman will
779 II,3 | background of this broad panorama, which testifies to the
780 V,16 | of the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete (cf. Act 2:17).~Everything
781 IV,9 | negation.~It can be said, paradoxically, that the sin presented
782 V,13 | different ages and conditions, pass before our eyes. We meet
783 VI,19 | said the day before the Passion); "but I will see you again
784 VI,19 | bio-physical sense appears to be passive: the formation process of
785 VI,18 | in our days than in the past, and is the subject of many
786 VI,18 | parents: the maternal and paternal contribution. In any event,
787 VII,25 | Bridegroom, it is the model and pattern of all human love, men's
788 VI,18 | more capable than men of paying attention to another person,
789 VII,23 | you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says
790 VII,27 | Jerusalem until the day of Pentecost. On that day the Holy Spirit
791 VIII,30| strength for other people, who perceive the great energies of her
792 II,3 | different peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which
793 VII,26 | Letter to the Ephesians. The perennial "unity of the two" that
794 IV,10 | requires respect for and a perfecting of the true personal subjectivity
795 II,5 | cancels it out, but rather perfects it and ennobles it. Therefore
796 VII,26 | in persona Christi", is performed by a man. This explanation
797 VII,27 | Prov. 31:10) who, despite persecution, difficulties and discrimination,
798 VII,27 | Phil 4:2), Mary, Tryphaena, Persis, and Tryphosa (cf. Rom 16:
799 VII,26 | which the priest acts "in persona Christi", is performed by
800 VI,19 | time, motherhood in its personal-ethical sense expresses a very important
801 V,13 | as a woman the dignity of personhood. Jesus of Nazareth confirms
802 VII,27 | and judgment which do not pertain to her nature. Although
803 IX,31 | Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on 15 August, the Solemnity
804 VI,18 | Motherhood as a human fact and phenomenon, is fully explained on the
805 VII,27 | Euodia and Syntyche (cf. Phil 4:2), Mary, Tryphaena, Persis,
806 VII,27 | note their names, such as Phoebe, "a deaconess of the Church
807 VI,19 | world, suffering either physically or morally. In this suffering
808 VI,19 | whose heart "a sword has pierced" (cf. Lk 2: 35), our thoughts
809 V,15 | Earlier still, there was Pilate's wife, who had warned her
810 IX,31 | together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is
811 I,1 | seen in a number of Pope Pius XII's Discourses4 and in
812 VII,27 | and others afterwards, played an active and important
813 VI,19 | suffering a woman's sensitivity plays a role, even though she
814 V,14 | an "object": an object of pleasure, of exploitation.~
815 VI,22 | pure the fidelity she has pledged to her Spouse".46 This is
816 IX,31 | year 1988, the tenth of my Pontificate.~ ~ ~
817 V,13 | in regard to women whom popular opinion contemptuously labelled
818 V,15 | Mary's behaviour "the good portion" in contrast to Martha's
819 IV,10 | of "domination" and male "possession". But the words of the biblical
820 I,1 | with in this document. The Post-Synodal Exhortation, which will
821 I,1 | that perhaps not all their potentialities have yet been made clear".
822 V,16 | of the Prophet: "I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;
823 V,15 | beautiful thing to me... In pouring this ointment on my body
824 V,13 | the crowd" (Mk 5:27) - was praised by him for her great faith: "
825 III,7 | The Lord Jesus, when he prayed to the Father 'that all
826 IX,31 | the "woman", the Church prays that in this mystery all
827 II,3 | fulfilment of the mystery "pre-determined in God" (cf. Eph 1:9). The
828 V,15 | wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what
829 VI,22 | word in faith. For by her preaching and by baptism she brings
830 VI,19 | parenthood), has a specific precedence over the man. Although motherhood,
831 VII,27 | figure" of the Church. She "precedes" everyone on the path to
832 VI,20 | in the period immediately preceding the coming of Jesus. Nevertheless,
833 I,1 | Second Vatican Council, my predecessor Paul VI showed the relevance
834 VI,21 | and every person, is also predisposed to being open to each and
835 III,7 | Genesis we can discern, in preliminary outline, the spousal character
836 III,7 | the other "I". This is a prelude to the definitive self-revelation
837 VI,18 | woman, especially in the prenatal period. It is the woman
838 V,15 | in contrast to Martha's preoccupation with domestic matters (cf.
839 IV,11 | of Revelation, first as a preparation for the Gospel and later
840 V,15 | body she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I
841 VI,19 | Father: "A body you have prepared for me. Lo, I have come
842 VI,21 | not deprive a woman of her prerogatives. Spiritual motherhood takes
843 III,8 | biblical language ~8. The presentation of man as "the image and
844 VI,17 | firm in her resolve to preserve her virginity, puts this
845 VI,22 | of the Holy Spirit, ... preserves with virginal purity an
846 V,16 | works of God" (Acts 2: 11), preserving the truth and originality
847 V,14 | as a result of various pressures, even on the part of the
848 III,7 | the analogy that can be presumed between Creator and creature),
849 V,13 | discrimination against women prevalent in his day. On the contrary,
850 V,14 | rid of it": but at what price? Public opinion today tries
851 IV,10 | lust of the flesh and the pride of life (cf. 1 Jn 2:16).
852 VII,27 | Church are "a kingdom of priests" (Rev 5:10; cf. 1 Pt 2:9),
853 VIII,29| loved. This statement is primarily ontological in nature, and
854 III,8 | among creatures finds its primary model in that generating
855 VIII,29| truth about marriage as a primordial sacrament with the creation
856 VII,27 | Cenchreae" (cf. Rom 16:1), Prisca with her husband Aquila (
857 VI,22 | cf. Gen 3:15)and which procedes from creation, through sin
858 IV,10 | situations and at the same time proclaim the need for conversion,
859 V,13 | the towns and villages, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom
860 IX,31 | community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened
861 VI,21 | way, one can say that the profile of marriage is found spiritually
862 VII,24 | this way of speaking, so profondly rooted in the customs and
863 IV,11 | Proto-evangelium as the progenitrix of him who will be the Redeemer
864 VI,18 | special debt to the woman. No programme of "equal rights" between
865 VIII,30| In this way, unilateral progress can also lead to a gradual
866 I,1 | structure of Christianity in so prominent a manner that perhaps not
867 I,1 | concerning the "effective promotion of the dignity and the responsibility
868 V,12 | contemporaries Christ became a promotor of women's true dignity
869 II,5 | the Lord" according to the prophecy of Isaiah (cf. Is 42:1;
870 VIII,29| think of a special kind of "prophetism" that belongs to women in
871 I,1 | published later, will present proposals of a pastoral nature on
872 V,15 | and deeds, is a consistent protest against whatever offends
873 IV,11 | grasp why the words of the Protoevangelium place such strong emphasis
874 VI,20 | is the beginning and the prototype of a new expectation on
875 V,13 | 8:3-11).~These episodes provide a very clear picture. Christ
876 III,8 | Jerusalem" (66: 13). In the Psalms too God is compared to a
877 VI,18 | also corresponds to the psycho-physical structure of women. What
878 VI,18 | likeness of God. This is not a purely theoretical interpretation,
879 IV,10 | conversion, that is to say, for purification from evil and liberation
880 VI,22 | preserves with virginal purity an integral faith, a firm
881 VIII,30| While this favours some, it pushes others to the edges of society.
882 V,13 | mite. While "the rich were putting their gifts into the treasury...
883 V,12 | marriage, her dignity. The questioners think they have on their
884 II,3 | fundamental and definitive questions which most beset it. Do
885 III,8 | feminine" qualities.~We may quote here some characteristic
886 V,16 | said to him in Hebrew, 'Rabbuni' (which means Teacher).
887 VI,20 | understood the so-called radicalism of the Gospel finds expression: "
888 VIII,28| Christ, who died and was raised up for all, can through
889 V,15 | profession of faith Jesus raises Lazarus. This conversation
890 VI,21 | those who come within one's range of activity. In marriage
891 III,6 | a rational being (animal rationale).23 Thanks to this property,
892 IV,11 | of the Proto-evangelium, re-read in the light of the New
893 VII,27 | the Church has already reached that perfection whereby
894 VII,24 | addressed to the spouses as real women and men. It reminds
895 VIII,28| all changes there are many realities which do not change and
896 V,13 | conversation leading up to this realization is one of the most beautiful
897 VII,26 | Eucharist makes present and realizes anew in a sacramental manner
898 V,13 | your husband". And she, realizing that he knows the secrets
899 V,16 | them are equally capable of receiving the outpouring of divine
900 II,3 | life; at times, indeed, recognition can be found of a Supreme
901 III,6 | provides sufficient bases for recognizing the essential equality of
902 I,1 | vocation of women. One of their recommendations was for a further study
903 II,3 | it would be worthwhile to reconsider it from the point of view
904 IV,11 | comparison Eve-Mary constantly recurs in the course of reflection
905 IV,11 | beginning, the Covenant in the redeeming blood of Christ. The Covenant
906 I,2 | theme, as the Encyclical Redemptoris Mater points out.9 This
907 VI,20 | consecration in virginity - without referring to spousal love. It is through
908 VI,18 | God (cf. Eph 3:14-15), is reflected in the woman's motherhood
909 III,7 | Communion - Gift ~7. By reflecting on the whole account found
910 IV,9 | life. By committing sin man rejects this gift and at the same
911 VI,19 | again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your
912 VI,19 | human history, it is always related to the Covenant which God
913 I,1 | predecessor Paul VI showed the relevance of this "sign of the times",
914 VIII,30| is unchangeable and ever relevant in them, because it has
915 I,1 | more than in any other religion, and since its very beginning,
916 V,15 | was the only Apostle who remained faithful, but there were
917 IX,31 | woman during one of those remarkable conversations which show
918 VII,23 | your widowhood you will remember no more. For your Maker
919 VII,26 | sacramental charge, "Do this in remembrance of me" (Lk 22:19; 1 Cor
920 VII,24 | as real women and men. It reminds them of the "ethos" of spousal
921 II,5 | diminished by artificially removing it from the overall context
922 VII,27 | The Second Vatican Council renewed the Church's awareness of
923 VI,21 | according to the Gospel means renouncing marriage and thus physical
924 VI,20 | receive it". These words repeat what he had said at the
925 II,4 | view, the "woman" is the representative and the archetype of the
926 VII,23 | shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will
927 I,1 | and likewise when, at the request of the 1971 Assembly of
928 VIII,29| ontological and ethical requirement of the person. The person
929 IV,10 | person. The matrimonial union requires respect for and a perfecting
930 VIII,29| order to love in return.~Rereading Genesis in light of the
931 VI,19 | though she often succeeds in resisting suffering better than a
932 V,15 | understand them; there is a true resonance of mind and heart, a response
933 VII,23 | Ezekiel and Isaiah.48 The respective passages deserve a separate
934 II,4 | human history at all times respects the free will of the human "
935 IV,10 | sincere gift of self" is responded to and matched by a corresponding "
936 II,4 | of the Annunciation, by responding with her "fiat", Mary conceived
937 V,15 | liberated" by this truth, restored to themselves: they feel
938 IV,11 | Gen 1:31). The Redemption restores, in a sense, at its very
939 IV,10 | whereas only the equality resulting from their dignity as persons
940 IV,11 | Christ, the son of Mary, resumes and renews that which in
941 VII,26 | them, and whose sins you retain are retained" (Jn 20:23).~
942 VII,26 | whose sins you retain are retained" (Jn 20:23).~We find ourselves
943 II,3 | about death, judgment and retribution beyond the grave? What,
944 VI,19 | Covenant~19. Our reflection returns to the biblical exemplar
945 III,6 | created by God "from the rib" of the man and is placed
946 V,15 | nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered
947 VI,22 | mystery of the Church, herself rightly called mother and virgin,
948 IX,31 | sisters in Christ.~Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on 15
949 VII,27 | of Sweden, Joan of Arc, Rose of Lima, Elizabeth Ann Seton
950 VI,21 | according to the charism and the rules of the various apostolic
951 I,2 | to be the common thread running throughout the present document,
952 V,13 | recognizes him as the Messiah and runs to tell her neighbours.
953 VII,23 | sacrament", determines the sacramentality of marriage as a holy covenant
954 VII,23 | of the "great mystery" ("sacramentum magnum"). ~The covenant
955 IV,9 | all the more tragic and sad. It must be admitted that
956 VI,19 | God" and a readiness to "safeguard" this Word, which is "the
957 IV,10 | much attention today, by safeguarding the truth about the "unity"
958 V,15 | Christ to the inhabitants of Samaria, so that they too receive
959 IV,11 | the mothers of Samuel and Samson. However, to make his Covenant
960 IV,11 | the case of the mothers of Samuel and Samson. However, to
961 VII,23 | up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her
962 VII,26 | customs and to the traditions sanctioned by the legislation of the
963 VI,22 | contemplating Mary's mysterious sanctity, imitating her charity,
964 II,5 | that the world might be saved through him" (cf. Jn 3:17),
965 IV,11 | as male and female "God saw everything that he had made,
966 V,13 | in the Gospel ~13. As we scan the pages of the Gospel,
967 V,12 | surprise, often to the point of scandal: "They marvelled that he
968 V,13 | oil. To his host, who is scandalized by this, he will say: "Her
969 VI,18 | of many detailed studies. Scientific analysis fully confirms
970 V,12 | in the presence of "the Scribes", who by profession were
971 II,3 | aspirations of the human spirit in search of God - at times as it
972 V,13 | realizing that he knows the secrets of her life, recognizes
973 VI,21 | Kingdom; for example, the Secular Institutes, or the communities
974 VII,25 | Christ the Redeemer, and seeks to respond to it with the
975 | seem
976 | seemed
977 III,7 | the Council text speaks of self-discovery), which can only be achieved "
978 VI,19 | amazing mystery of her Son's "self-emptying": "This is perhaps the deepest '
979 III,7 | person means striving towards self-realization (the Council text speaks
980 V,12 | indignation", must have filled the self-satisfied hearers of Christ's words: "
981 II,3 | a Son" (Heb 1:1-2). The sending of this Son, one in substance
982 IV,10 | touch upon an extremely sensitive point in the dimension of
983 IX,31 | coming of Christ.~With these sentiments, I impart the Apostolic
984 VII,23 | respective passages deserve a separate analysis. Here we will cite
985 III,8 | the "non-likeness"27 which separates the whole of creation from
986 VII,27 | Christians, a model of the "sequela Christi", an example of
987 V,14 | Thus Jesus will say in the Sermon on the Mount: "Every one
988 II,5 | Son of Man came not to be served but to serve" (Mk 10:45).~
989 VII,27 | Rose of Lima, Elizabeth Ann Seton and Mary Ward.~The witness
990 VI,20 | without any distinction of sex.~In this wider context,
991 IV,10 | and evangelical message sheds light on this cause, which
992 III,6 | to which we shall refer shortly. At this point, however,
993 I,1 | my predecessor Paul VI showed the relevance of this "sign
994 VII,27 | earliest times, there were side-by-side with men a number of women,
995 V,14 | notice, it is passed over in silence: he does not appear to be
996 VII,27 | Matilda of Tuscany, Hedwig of Silesia, Jadwiga of Cracow, Elizabeth
997 V,12 | attitude which is extremely simple, and for this very reason
998 VI,20 | be compared to remaining simply unmarried or single, because
999 VII,23 | spousal relationship moves simultaneously in two directions which
1000 VI,22 | first as an eminent and singular exemplar of both virginity
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