Centesimus annus
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1 6, 62 | when he is unaware of it.~Mary, the Mother of the Redeemer,
Dives in misericordia
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2 4, 5 | terminology of the ancient books. Mary, entering the house of Zechariah,
3 5, 9 | prophetic content the words that Mary uttered during her visit
4 5, 9 | revelation of the mercy that Mary proclaimed on the threshold
5 5, 9 | generation to generation."103 ~Mary is also the one who obtained
6 5, 9 | into his heart, as much as Mary did, that mystery, that
7 5, 9 | her definitive "fiat." ~Mary, then, is the one who has
8 5, 9 | and exceptionally - that Mary shared in. In her and through
9 5, 9 | Incarnation. ~"The motherhood of Mary in the order of grace,"
10 6, 10 | fear of God. The words of Mary's Magnificat have a prophetic
11 7 | Son of God, resounded in Mary's Magnificat, and which
12 8, 15 | mindful of the words of Mary's Magnificat, which proclaim
13 8, 15 | following the example of Mary, also seeks to be the spiritual
Dominum et vivificantem
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14 1, 16 | his Mother.61 The Virgin Mary, who "had conceived by the
15 1, 18 | Joseph the carpenter, with Mary, his Virgin Mother. When
16 1, 21 | a virgin whose name was Mary. ~ ~
17 1, 25 | Jerusalem, together with Mary, the Lord's Mother.95 The
18 2, 30 | in prayer together with Mary the Mother of Jesus, in
19 3, 49 | Annunciation of the birth of Jesus, Mary asks: "How shall this be,
20 3, 49 | this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph,
21 3, 49 | dream: "Do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which
22 3, 49 | Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary." Similarly, the Nicene-Constantinopolitan
23 3, 49 | incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man." ~"By
24 3, 49 | incarnate from the Virgin Mary." This is what happened
25 3, 50 | moment of the Annunciation Mary utters her "fiat": "Be it
26 3, 51 | overshadowed the virginal body of Mary, bringing about in her the
27 3, 51 | who believed!"205: thus Mary is greeted by her cousin
28 3, 51 | they do not believe."207 Mary entered the history of the
29 3, 51 | precisely through the faith of Mary, through the "obedience
30 3, 63 | and was born of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy
31 3, 66 | the Apostles together with Mary, the Mother of Christ, and
32 3, 66 | perseveres in prayer with Mary. This union of the praying
33 3, 66 | moreover, contemplating Mary's mysterious sanctity, imitating
Ecclesia de Eucharistia
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34 Int, 4 | the Cross, at the side of Mary and the faithful women.
35 Int, 6 | and to contemplate it with Mary, is the “programme” which
36 Int, 7 | Christ at the school of Mary. Consequently, I cannot
37 1, 19 | Eucharistic Prayers honour Mary, the ever-Virgin Mother
38 5, 47 | whom John identifies as Mary the sister of Lazarus, pours
39 6 | CHAPTER SIX~AT THE SCHOOL OF MARY,~“WOMAN OF THE EUCHARIST”~
40 6, 53 | Eucharist, we cannot neglect Mary, Mother and model of the
41 6, 53 | pointed to the Blessed Virgin Mary as our teacher in contemplating
42 6, 53 | institution of the Eucharist.102 Mary can guide us towards this
43 6, 53 | Thursday makes no mention of Mary. Yet we know that she was
44 6, 53 | of Pentecost. Certainly Mary must have been present at
45 6, 53 | an indirect picture of Mary's relationship with the
46 6, 53 | her interior disposition. Mary is a “woman of the Eucharist”
47 6, 53 | The Church, which looks to Mary as a model, is also called
48 6, 54 | there can be no one like Mary to act as our support and
49 6, 54 | of me!”, we also accept Mary's invitation to obey him
50 6, 54 | the wedding feast of Cana, Mary seems to say to us: “Do
51 6, 55 | 55. In a certain sense Mary lived her Eucharistic faith
52 6, 55 | incarnation. At the Annunciation Mary conceived the Son of God
53 6, 55 | analogy between the Fiat which Mary said in reply to the angel,
54 6, 55 | receiving the body of the Lord. Mary was asked to believe that
55 6, 55 | Christ, Son of God and Son of Mary, becomes present in his
56 6, 55 | who believed” (Lk 1:45). Mary also anticipated, in the
57 6, 55 | the eyes and the voice of Mary. And is not the enraptured
58 6, 55 | not the enraptured gaze of Mary as she contemplated the
59 6, 56 | 56. Mary, throughout her life at
60 6, 56 | foretold, and in some sense Mary's Stabat Mater at the foot
61 6, 56 | preparation for Calvary, Mary experienced a kind of “anticipated
62 6, 56 | that passion.~What must Mary have felt as she heard from
63 6, 56 | conceived in her womb! For Mary, receiving the Eucharist
64 6, 57 | allowing her to accompany us. Mary is present, with the Church
65 6, 57 | same ought to be said of Mary and the Eucharist. This
66 6, 57 | times, the commemoration of Mary has always been part of
67 6, 58 | makes her own the spirit of Mary. This truth can be understood
68 6, 58 | Eucharist, like the Canticle of Mary, is first and foremost praise
69 6, 58 | praise and thanksgiving. When Mary exclaims: “My soul magnifies
70 6, 58 | attitude”.~At the same time Mary recalls the wonders worked
71 6, 58 | take root in the world. Mary sings of the “new heavens”
72 6, 58 | The Magnificat expresses Mary's spirituality, and there
73 6, 58 | that our life, like that of Mary, may become completely a
74 CON, 62 | Above all, let us listen to Mary Most Holy, in whom the mystery
75 CON, 62 | mystery of light. Gazing upon Mary, we come to know the transforming
Evangelium vitae
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76 2, 33 | the righteous, who echo Mary's immediate and joyful "
77 2, 45 | meeting between the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth, and between
78 2, 45 | writes: "The arrival of Mary and the blessings of the
79 2, 45 | recognized the arrival of Mary; he the arrival of the Lord.
80 3, 61(60) | two mothers, Elizabeth and Mary, and their two sons, John
81 Conc, 102 | for the sake of all was Mary, the Virgin Mother; she
82 Conc, 102 | with the Gospel of life. Mary's consent at the Annunciation
83 Conc, 102 | death.~For this reason, Mary, "like the Church of which
84 Conc, 102 | the Church contemplates Mary's motherhood, she discovers
85 Conc, 102 | profound understanding of Mary's experience as the incomparable
86 Conc | 12:1): the motherhood of Mary and of the Church~ ~
87 Conc, 103 | mystery of the Church and Mary appears clearly in the "
88 Conc, 103 | and exemplary fashion in Mary. She is the woman of glory
89 Conc, 103 | possible by the motherhood of Mary, who conceived and bore
90 Conc, 103 | true God from true God". Mary is truly the Mother of God,
91 Conc, 103 | its highest level. Thus Mary becomes the model of the
92 Conc, 103 | 1:4-5).~Like the Church, Mary too had to live her motherhood
93 Conc, 103 | which Simeon addresses to Mary at the very beginning of
94 Conc, 103 | of Jesus, and with him of Mary, a rejection which will
95 Conc, 103 | cross of Jesus" (Jn 19:25), Mary shares in the gift which
96 Conc, 103 | when the time comes for Mary to receive and beget as
97 Conc, 104 | Church's mission.~Here too Mary sheds light on the Community
98 Conc, 104 | him as a dangerous threat, Mary has to flee with Joseph
99 Conc, 104 | Egypt (cf. Mt 2:13-15).~Mary thus helps the Church to
100 Conc, 104 | a figure of Christ, whom Mary brought forth "in the fullness
101 Conc, 105 | angel's Annunciation to Mary is framed by these reassuring
102 Conc, 105 | words: "Do not be afraid, Mary" and "with God nothing will
103 Conc, 105 | his people (cf. Hos 2:16). Mary is a living word of comfort
104 Conc, 105 | sure hope and solace".142~O Mary, ~bright dawn of the new
Fides et ratio
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105 Conc, 108 | assent to Gabriel's word, Mary lost nothing of her true
106 Conc, 108 | understood well when they called Mary “the table at which faith
107 Conc, 108 | philosophari in Maria.~May Mary, Seat of Wisdom, be a sure
108 Conc, 108(132)| Homily in Praise of Holy Mary Mother of God: PG 43, 493.~
Redemptor hominis
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109 1, 1 | and was born of the Virgin Mary. This act of redemption
110 2, 8 | loved. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made
111 2, 9 | Man, the Son of the Virgin Mary, thought to be the son of
112 4, 18 | and was born of the Virgin Mary, is the final fulfilment
113 4, 22 | unworthy Successor to turn to Mary as Mother of the Church
114 4, 22 | beginning of his papal service. Mary is Mother of the Church
115 4, 22 | nobody else can bring us as Mary can into the divine and
116 4, 22 | into it by God himself as Mary has. It is in this that
117 4, 22 | history of the human race, but Mary's participation, due to
118 4, 22 | each person. Consequently, Mary must be on all the ways
119 4, 22 | this prayer, together with Mary the Mother of Jesus202,
120 4, 22 | Above all, I implore Mary, the heavenly Mother of
Redemptoris Mater
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121 Int, 1 | treatment of the Blessed Virgin Mary,1 I too wish to begin my
122 Int, 1 | reflection on the role of Mary in the mystery of Christ
123 Int, 1(1) | Role of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in the Mystery
124 Int, 1 | the fullness of grace into Mary of Nazareth, formed in her
125 Int, 1 | liturgy the Church salutes Mary of Nazareth as the Church'
126 Int, 1 | she encounters Christ and Mary indissolubly joined: he
127 Int, 1(3) | Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Saint Ambrose, De Institutione
128 Int, 2 | already trodden by the Virgin Mary, who "advanced in her pilgrimage
129 Int, 3 | celebration of the birth of Mary.~In fact, even though it
130 Int, 3 | identifying the date of Mary's birth, the Church has
131 Int, 3 | constantly been aware that Mary appeared on the horizon
132 Int, 3 | the rising of the sun, so Mary from the time of her Immaculate
133 Int, 3(6) | different ways the mystery of Mary: cf. Saint John Damascene,
134 Int, 4 | the divine motherhood of Mary was solemnly confirmed as
135 Int, 4 | truth of the Church's faith. Mary is the Mother of God (=
136 Int, 4 | God...born of the Virgin Mary...has truly been made one
137 Int, 4 | the divine motherhood of Mary was for the Council of Ephesus
138 Int, 5 | Vatican Council, by presenting Mary in the mystery of Christ,
139 Int, 5 | the mystery of the Church. Mary, as the Mother of Christ,
140 Int, 5 | Spirit was born of the Virgin Mary." The reality of the Incarnation
141 Int, 5 | Incarnation without referring to Mary, the Mother of the Incarnate
142 Int, 5 | in another passage that Mary "has gone before," becoming "
143 Int, 5 | uniting in herself - as Mary did - the qualities of mother
144 Int, 6 | which the Blessed Virgin Mary continues to "go before"
145 Int, 6 | they raise their eyes to Mary, who shines forth to the
146 Int, 6 | side of her Son in heaven, Mary has already crossed the
147 Int, 6 | eschatological fulfillment, Mary does not cease to be the "
148 Int, 6(16) | does the day go? Take away Mary, this star of the sea, of
149 1 | PART I - MARY IN THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST~
150 1, 7(19) | Concerning the predestination of Mary, cf. Saint John Damascene,
151 1, 8 | 8. Mary is definitively introduced
152 1, 8 | is with you" (Lk. 1:28). Mary "was greatly troubled at
153 1, 8 | to meditate together with Mary on these words, and especially
154 1, 8 | blessing, however, refers to Mary in a special and exceptional
155 1, 8 | For the messenger greets Mary as "full of grace"; he calls
156 1, 8 | earthly name: Miryam (= Mary), but by this new name: "
157 1, 8 | the messenger addresses Mary as "full of grace," the
158 1, 8 | special and exceptional way Mary is united to Christ, and
159 1, 8 | As the Council teaches, Mary "stands out among the poor
160 1, 9 | of all to the election of Mary as Mother of the Son of
161 1, 9 | supernatural munificence from which Mary benefits by being chosen
162 1, 9 | everyone, then the election of Mary is wholly exceptional and
163 1, 9 | her: "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor
164 1, 9 | man and of the universe: Mary is "full of grace," because
165 1, 9 | fulfilled. As the Council says, Mary is "the Mother of the Son
166 1, 10 | willed to become her Son, Mary was preserved from the inheritance
167 1, 10 | participation in the divine nature, Mary receives life from him to
168 1, 10(26) | Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Hymn at First and Second
169 1, 10 | of your Son."27 And since Mary receives this "new life"
170 1, 10(27) | Memomial of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday, Hymn II in
171 1, 11 | with the sun" (Rev. 12:1).~Mary, Mother of the Incarnate
172 1, 11 | beauty of her whole being. Mary thus remains before God,
173 1, 11 | of man. In this history Mary remains a sign of sure hope.~
174 1, 12 | not far from Jerusalem. Mary arrived there "in haste,"
175 1, 12 | Elizabeth in order to answer Mary's question. "How shall this
176 1, 12 | Moved by charity, therefore, Mary goes to the house of her
177 1, 12 | house of her kinswoman. When Mary enters, Elizabeth replies
178 1, 12 | Holy Spirit" she greets Mary with a loud cry: "Blessed
179 1, 12 | become part of the Hail Mary, as a continuation of the
180 1, 12 | Elizabeth bears witness to Mary: she recognizes and proclaims
181 1, 12 | namely the truth about Mary, who has become really present
182 1, 12 | the gift of God himself. Mary's faith, proclaimed by Elizabeth
183 1, 13 | found perfect realization in Mary. The "decisive" moment was
184 1, 13 | Indeed, at the Annunciation Mary entrusted herself to God
185 1, 13(30) | should be "recapitulated" in Mary, so that the Virgin, becoming
186 1, 13 | living God, announced to Mary by the angel, referred to
187 1, 13 | accepting this announcement, Mary was to become the "Mother
188 1, 13 | the Incarnation."33 And Mary gives this consent, after
189 1, 13 | Lk. 1:38). This fiat of Mary - "let it be to me"-was
190 1, 13 | Incarnation was accomplished when Mary uttered her fiat: "Let it
191 1, 13 | granting of her Son's desire.~Mary uttered this fiat in faith.
192 1, 13 | therefore does Elizabeth praise Mary: "And blessed is she who
193 1, 13 | already been fulfilled: Mary of Nazareth presents herself
194 1, 14 | 14. Mary's faith can also be compared
195 1, 14 | beginning of the Old Covenant; Mary's faith at the Annunciation
196 1, 14 | nations" (cf. Rom. 4:18), so Mary, at the Annunciation, having
197 1, 14 | the culminating moment of Mary's faith in her awaiting
198 1, 14 | revelation will be fulfilled. Mary's "obedience of faith" during
199 1, 14 | the People of God, so too Mary, during the pilgrimage of
200 1, 14 | his ways" (Rom. 11:33). Mary, who by the eternal will
201 1, 15 | When at the Annunciation Mary hears of the Son whose Mother
202 1, 15 | over the house of Jacob." Mary had grown up in the midst
203 1, 15 | From the first moment Mary professed above all the "
204 1, 16 | the "obedience of faith," Mary hears other words: those
205 1, 16 | precepts of the Law of Moses, Mary and Joseph "brought him
206 1, 16 | by the Roman authorities, Mary went with Joseph to Bethlehem,
207 1, 16 | appears at this beginning of Mary's "journey" of faith. His
208 1, 16 | however, Simeon addresses Mary with the following words: "
209 1, 16 | on the announcement which Mary had heard from the angel:
210 1, 16 | of his life, the Son of Mary, and his Mother with him,
211 1, 16 | a second Annunciation to Mary, for they tell her of the
212 1, 16 | offered gifts (cf. Mt. 2:11), Mary together with the child
213 1, 17 | in Israel. Nevertheless, Mary knows that he who bears
214 1, 17 | Most High" (cf. Lk. 1:32). Mary knows she has conceived
215 1, 17 | Kings 8:10-12). Therefore Mary knows that the Son to whom
216 1, 17 | in the house at Nazareth, Mary's life too is "hid with
217 1, 17 | mystery of God. Every day Mary is in constant contact with
218 1, 17 | this is the case, how can Mary "know the Son"? Of course
219 1, 17 | Ps. 2:7) was revealed to Mary, she, his Mother, is in
220 1, 17 | He was obedient both to Mary and also to Joseph, since
221 1, 17 | this reason, the Son of Mary was regarded by the people
222 1, 17 | And this is the way that Mary, for many years, lived in
223 1, 17 | permitted to discover Christ was Mary, who lived with Joseph in
224 1, 17 | adds: "And they (Joseph and Mary) did not understand the
225 1, 18 | reaches its full meaning when Mary stands beneath the Cross
226 1, 18 | given birth," in this way Mary "faithfully preserved her
227 1, 18 | at the foot of the Cross, Mary is the witness, humanly
228 1, 18 | obedience of faith shown by Mary in the face of God's "unsearchable
229 1, 18 | power!~Through this faith Mary is perfectly united with
230 1, 18 | At the foot of the Cross Mary shares through faith in
231 1, 18 | Simeon had addressed to Mary: "and a sword will pierce
232 1, 18(40) | Concerning Mary's participation or "compassion"
233 1, 19 | disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience; what the virgin
234 1, 19 | her unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosened by her faith."41
235 1, 19 | Council also says - call Mary the "mother of the liing"
236 1, 19 | through Eve, life through Mary."42~In the expression "Blessed
237 1, 19 | the innermost reality of Mary, whom the angel hailed as "
238 1, 20 | expression of praise of Mary as Jesus' mother according
239 1, 20 | began his messianic activity Mary did not accompany him but
240 1, 20 | unknown woman in a way brought Mary out of her hiddenness.~Through
241 1, 20 | This is the gospel in which Mary is present as the mother
242 1, 20 | of the flesh and blood of Mary!43~But to the blessing uttered
243 1, 20(43) | Christ truth in the mind of Mary, Christ flesh in the womb
244 1, 20(43) | Christ flesh in the womb of Mary": Saint Augustine, Sermo
245 1, 20 | twelve-year-old Jesus gave to Mary and Joseph when he was found
246 1, 20 | disciples refers precisely to Mary in a very special way. Is
247 1, 20 | very special way. Is not Mary the first of "those who
248 1, 20 | her? Without any doubt, Mary is worthy of blessing by
249 1, 20 | that prophetic phrase of Mary's Magnificat and to begin
250 1, 20 | the ages.~If through faith Mary became the bearer of the
251 1, 20 | of motherhood belonged to Mary from the beginning, that
252 1, 20 | Lk. 1:38)? Through faith Mary continued to hear and to
253 1, 20 | living God. Thus in a sense Mary as Mother became the first "
254 1, 21 | Gospel of John which presents Mary at the wedding feast of
255 1, 21 | were invited together with Mary, as if by reason of her
256 1, 21 | believed in him" (Jn. 2:11).~Mary is present at Cana in Galilee
257 1, 21 | rather than the question), Mary nevertheless turns to the
258 1, 21 | dimension, the new meaning of Mary's motherhood. Her motherhood
259 1, 21 | the flesh, that is to say Mary's solicitude for human beings,
260 1, 21 | Thus there is a mediation: Mary places herself between her
261 1, 21 | nature of intercession: Mary "intercedes" for mankind.
262 1, 21 | Another essential element of Mary's maternal task is found
263 1, 21 | thanks to the intercession of Mary and the obedience of the
264 1, 21 | begins "his hour." At Cana Mary appears as believing in
265 1, 22 | of the truth concerning Mary's maternal care. This truth
266 1, 22 | the Council illustrates Mary's maternal role as it relates
267 1, 22 | of Christ. Thus we read: "Mary's maternal function towards
268 1, 22 | This maternal role of Mary flows, according to God'
269 1, 22 | of first announcement of Mary's mediation, wholly oriented
270 1, 22 | As the Council proclaims: Mary became "a mother to us in
271 1, 22 | nourished the divine Redeemer, Mary became "an associate of
272 1, 22 | And "this maternity of Mary in the order of grace. . .
273 1, 23 | the event at Cana presents Mary's caring motherhood at the
274 1, 23 | and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and
275 1, 23 | the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw
276 1, 23 | confirms. One can say that if Mary's motherhood of the human
277 1, 23 | does not hesitate to call Mary "the Mother of Christ and
278 1, 23(47) | Origen on the presence of Mary and John on Calvary: "The
279 1, 23(47) | having received from Jesus Mary as Mother": Comm. in loan.,
280 1, 23 | this "new motherhood of Mary," generated by faith, is
281 1, 24 | heart of the mystery of Mary, and indicates the unique
282 1, 24 | the Council teaches, in Mary "the exalted Daughter of
283 1, 24 | eternal plan of Providence, Mary's divine motherhood is to
284 1, 24 | Tradition, according to which Mary's "motherhood" of the Church
285 1, 24 | glimpse this continuity of Mary's motherhood: "Since it
286 1, 24 | prayer with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and
287 1, 24 | brethren' (Acts 1:14). We see Mary prayerfully imploring the
288 1, 24 | links these two moments is Mary: Mary at Nazareth and Mary
289 1, 24 | these two moments is Mary: Mary at Nazareth and Mary in
290 1, 24 | Mary: Mary at Nazareth and Mary in the Upper Room at Jerusalem.
291 2, 25 | the history of souls, that Mary is present, as the one who
292 2, 25 | Council further says that "Mary figured profoundly in the
293 2, 26 | beginning of this journey Mary is present. We see her in
294 2, 26 | journey of faith made by Mary, whom we see praying in
295 2, 26 | the others gathered there: Mary "goes before them," "leads
296 2, 26 | Cross. In the Upper Room Mary's journey meets the Church'
297 2, 26 | 15-18; 4:10-12; 5:30-32).~Mary did not directly receive
298 2, 26 | with them. In their midst Mary was "devoted to prayer"
299 2, 26 | that Jesus was the Son of Mary, and that she was his Mother,
300 2, 26 | the Church "looked at" Mary through Jesus, just as she "
301 2, 26 | looked at" Jesus through Mary. For the Church of that
302 2, 26 | that time and of every time Mary is a singular witness to
303 2, 26 | that time and of every time Mary was and is the one who is "
304 2, 26 | the stable at Bethlehem, Mary followed Jesus step by step
305 2, 26 | of Golgotha. Now, while Mary was with the Apostles in
306 2, 26 | even beneath the Cross did Mary's faith fail. She had still
307 2, 27 | Pentecost in Jerusalem, Mary was with all those who were
308 2, 27 | reverence and devotion.63 Mary belongs indissolubly to
309 2, 27 | 1:45). It is precisely Mary's faith which marks the
310 2, 27 | and in a sense share in Mary's faith.~Elizabeth's words "
311 2, 27 | turn with veneration to Mary and confidently have recourse
312 2, 27 | precisely this lively sharing in Mary's faith that determines
313 2, 28 | 28. As the Council says, "Mary figured profoundly in the
314 2, 28 | Father."64 For this reason, Mary's faith, according to the
315 2, 28 | to prayer together with Mary, the mother of Jesus" (Acts
316 2, 28 | During this time of vigil, Mary, through the same faith
317 2, 28 | Son.68~This presence of Mary finds many different expressions
318 2, 28 | their own faith. For in Mary's faith, first at the Annunciation
319 2, 28 | mankind."70~In the faith which Mary professed at the Annunciation
320 2, 29 | obedience of faith" of which Mary is the first and brightest
321 2, 29(74) | Lumen Gentium, 68, 69. On Mary Most Holy, promoter of Christian
322 2, 29(74) | unity, and on the cult of Mary in the East, cf. Leo XIII,
323 2, 30 | also concerning the role of Mary in the work of salvation.75
324 2, 30 | mystery of the Church and Mary's role in the work of salvation.
325 2, 30 | more profound study of both Mary and the Church, clarifying
326 2, 30 | this "pilgrimage of faith." Mary, who is still the model
327 2, 30 | matters relating to the Virgin Mary. For they recognize her
328 2, 31 | made flesh of the Virgin Mary were defined in Ecumenical
329 2, 31 | very beautiful hymns, to Mary ever Virgin...God's Most
330 2, 31 | was himself begotten of Mary, the Virgin Mother of God
331 2, 31 | of that bond which unites Mary, as the Mother of God, to
332 2, 31 | contemplation of the mystery of Mary by St. Cyril of Alexandria,
333 2, 31 | Spirit," tirelessly sang of Mary, leaving a still living
334 2, 31(81) | Weddase Maryam (Praises of Mary), which follows the Ethiopian
335 2, 31(81) | contains hymns and prayers to Mary for each day of the week.
336 2, 31(81) | the importance given to Mary in the Ethiopian hymnology
337 2, 31 | magnificent beauty of the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Word made
338 2, 31 | surprise us therefore that Mary occupies a privileged place
339 2, 32 | Eucharistic Liturgy are offered to Mary, have moulded the faith,
340 2, 33 | churches and houses. In them Mary is represented in a number
341 2, 35 | welled up from the depths of Mary's faith at the Visitation,
342 2, 36 | kinswoman coming from Nazareth, Mary replied with the Magnificat.
343 2, 36 | Elizabeth first called Mary "blessed" because of "the
344 2, 36 | that culminating moment, Mary's faith acquires a new consciousness
345 2, 36 | spirit. The words used by Mary on the threshold of Elizabeth'
346 2, 36 | the people of Israel,89 Mary's personal experience, the
347 2, 36 | enters into human history.~Mary is the first to share in
348 2, 36 | revelation."90 In her exultation Mary confesses that she finds
349 2, 37 | of Eve the first woman, Mary, whom tradition is wont
350 2, 37 | his only Son" (Jn. 3:16). Mary is the first witness of
351 2, 37 | not cease repeating with Mary the words of the Magnificat,
352 2, 37 | wonderfully inscribed in Mary's Magnificat. The God of
353 2, 37 | on those who fear him." Mary is deeply imbued with the
354 2, 37 | cf. Pss. 25; 31; 35; 55). Mary truly proclaims the coming
355 2, 37 | 11:4; 61:1). Drawing from Mary's heart, from the depth
356 2, 37 | freedom and liberation. "Mary is totally dependent upon
357 3 | 1. Mary, the Handmaid of the Lord~
358 3, 38 | The maternal role of Mary towards people in no way
359 3, 38 | overshadowed the Virgin Mary when he began in her the
360 3, 38 | sisters of her Son.~In effect, Mary's mediation is intimately
361 3, 38(96) | Bernardi Opera, V, 1968, 263. Mary as a pure mirror sends back
362 3, 38 | Council presents the truth of Mary's mediation as "a sharing
363 3, 38 | this subordinate role of Mary. She experiences it continuously
364 3, 38 | virtue of divine election Mary is the earthly Mother of
365 3, 39 | It is significant that Mary, recognizing in the words
366 3, 39 | acceptance of motherhood. Mary consents to God's choice,
367 3, 39 | selfgiving to God in virginity. Mary accepted her election as
368 3, 39 | By virtue of this love, Mary wished to be always and
369 3, 39 | her vocation to virginity.~Mary's motherhood, completely
370 3, 39 | of the Lord" testify to Mary's openness of spirit: she
371 3, 39 | together.~For this reason Mary became not only the "nursing
372 3, 39 | of her Son, the Redeemer, Mary's motherhood itself underwent
373 3, 39 | supernatural life to souls,"102 Mary entered, in a way all her
374 3, 39 | mediation of Christ.~In Mary's case we have a special
375 3, 39 | by Jesus on the Cross to Mary and John.~
376 3, 40 | Resurrection and Ascension Mary entered the Upper Room together
377 3, 40 | Resurrection of her Son. Mary, who from the beginning
378 3, 40 | that the "motherhood of Mary in the order of grace...
379 3, 40 | Christ "between God and men" Mary's cooperation shares, in
380 3, 40 | manifested at Cana in Galilee, Mary's mediation continues in
381 3, 40 | the world. We read that Mary "by her maternal charity,
382 3, 40 | homeland."105 In this way Mary's motherhood continues unceasingly
383 3, 40 | in this truth by invoking Mary "under the titles of Advocate,
384 3, 40(105) | recognizes and celebrates Mary's "maternal role": it is
385 3, 40(105) | Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother and Mediatrix of
386 3, 41 | to that of the Redeemer, Mary contributes in a special
387 3, 41 | definitively accomplished in Mary all the effects of the one
388 3, 41(108) | Saint Bernard presents Mary immersed in the splendor
389 3, 41 | Church, according to which Mary is "united by a close and
390 3, 41(110) | this particular aspect of Mary's mediation as implorer
391 3, 41 | Mt. 20:28). In this way Mary became the first of those
392 3, 41 | cf. 1 Cor. 15:27-28)."114 Mary, the handmaid of the Lord,
393 3, 41(115) | With regard to Mary as Queen, cf. Saint John
394 3, 41 | Assumption into heaven, Mary is as it were clothed by
395 3, 41 | all."~In this phase too Mary's maternal mediation does
396 3 | 2. Mary in the life of the Church
397 3, 42 | of divine motherhood, Mary is united with her Son,
398 3, 42 | how, from the beginning, Mary remains with the Apostles
399 3, 42 | disappoint (cf. Rom. 5:5).~Mary believed in the fulfillment
400 3, 42 | Spirit."118~For these reasons Mary is honored in the Church "
401 3, 42 | times the Blessed Virgin Mary has been venerated under
402 3, 42 | As Virgin and Mother, Mary remains for the Church a "
403 3, 42 | or rather as a "figure," Mary, present in the mystery
404 3, 43 | with fidelity."122 Like Mary, who first believed by accepting
405 3, 43 | It can be said that from Mary the Church also learns her
406 3, 43 | nature, in "contemplating Mary's mysterious sanctity, imitating
407 3, 43 | in Christ. For, just as Mary is at the service of the
408 3, 43 | following the example of Mary, the Church remains the
409 3, 43 | Following the example of Mary, who kept and pondered in
410 3, 44 | 44. Given Mary's relationship to the Church
411 3, 44 | and a sincere charity."127 Mary is thus present in the mystery
412 3, 44 | the Holy Spirit. And here Mary is not only the model and
413 3, 44 | which is characteristic of Mary, insofar as already on earth
414 3, 44 | are words which determine Mary's place in the life of Christ'
415 3, 44 | Christ that Spirit whom Mary too, together with the Church,
416 3, 44 | body born of the Virgin Mary, becomes present.~The piety
417 3, 44 | practice of the Marian Shrines. Mary guides the faithful to the
418 3, 45 | her to him as his mother. Mary's motherhood, which becomes
419 3, 45 | individual. The Redeemer entrusts Mary to John because he entrusts
420 3, 45 | because he entrusts John to Mary. At the foot of the Cross
421 3, 45 | beloved Master. And since Mary was given as a mother to
422 3, 45 | Golgotha. Entrusting himself to Mary in a filial manner, the
423 3, 45(130) | beyond the mere acceptance of Mary by the disciple in the sense
424 3, 45 | the Spirit which became Mary's role at the foot of the
425 3, 46 | definitively directed towards him. Mary can be said to continue
426 3, 46 | for every human being, Mary is the one who first "believed,"
427 3, 46 | this attitude, the nearer Mary leads them to the "unsearchable
428 3, 46 | note that the figure of Mary of Nazareth sheds light
429 3, 46 | that women, by looking to Mary, find in her the secret
430 3, 46 | advancement. In the light of Mary, the Church sees in the
431 3, 47 | solemnly proclaimed that Mary is the Mother of the Church, "
432 3, 47 | regarding the Blessed Virgin Mary will always be a key to
433 3, 47 | Christ and of the Church."136 Mary is present in the Church
434 3, 47 | motherhood in the Spirit, Mary embraces each and every
435 3, 47 | the Church. In this sense Mary, Mother of the Church, is
436 3, 47 | salvific plan for humanity. For Mary, present in the Church as
437 3, 47 | their eyes with faith to Mary in the course of their earthly
438 3, 47 | increase in holiness."140 Mary, the exalted Daughter of
439 3, 48 | about the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in the mystery
440 3, 48(141) | Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, had proclaimed an Extraordinary
441 3, 48 | Christ through the hands of Mary, as an effective means for
442 3, 49 | not only of recalling that Mary "preceded" the entry of
443 3, 49 | emphasizing, in the light of Mary, that from the moment when
444 3, 50 | In announcing the Year of Mary, I also indicated that it
445 3, 50 | Council, which looks to Mary as "a sign of sure hope
446 Conc, 51 | invocations addressed to Mary by the Church is the following:~"
447 Conc, 51 | accompanies the mystery of Mary's divine motherhood. In
448 Conc, 51 | wonderment of faith, stands Mary. As the loving Mother of
449 Conc, 52 | invocation addressed to Mary, the "loving Mother of the
450 Conc, 52 | addressed to Christ, who through Mary entered human history. Year
451 Conc, 52 | year the antiphon rises to Mary, evoking that moment which
452 Conc, 52 | her own mystery. She sees Mary deeply rooted in humanity'
453 Conc, 52 | him from eternity She sees Mary maternally present and sharing
Redemptoris missio
Chap., §
454 1, 4 | incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man."5 The
455 Conc, 92 | Upper Room "together with Mary, the Mother of Jesus" (Acts
456 Conc, 92 | does this together with Mary and following the example
457 Conc, 92 | following the example of Mary, the Church's Mother and
458 Conc, 92 | Church's Mother and model: Mary is the model of that maternal
459 Conc, 92 | already trodden by the Virgin Mary."177~To "Mary's mediation,
460 Conc, 92 | the Virgin Mary."177~To "Mary's mediation, wholly oriented
Slavorum apostoli
Chap., §
461 2, 5 | altar in the Church of Saint Mary ad Praesepe, today known
462 2, 5 | Praesepe, today known as Saint Mary Major, and recommended that
463 8, 30 | in the womb of the Virgin Mary and was made man;~-and that
Sollicitudo rei socialis
Chap., §
464 7, 48 | the Son of God and Son of Mary, through whom the Kingdom
465 7, 49 | may look more and more to Mary, who goes before us on the
466 7, 49 | glorious and blessed Virgin." ~Mary most holy, our Mother and
467 7, 49 | Blessed Trinity, I entrust to Mary all that I have written
Ut unum sint
Chap., §
468 3, 79 | the faith; 5) the Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon
469 Exh, 102 | is the same answer which Mary of Nazareth heard: with
Veritatis splendor
Chap., §
470 Conc | Mary, Mother of Mercy ~
471 Conc, 118 | research of moralists, to Mary, Mother of God and Mother
472 Conc, 118 | God and Mother of Mercy. ~Mary is Mother of Mercy because
473 Conc, 120 | 120. Mary is also Mother of Mercy
474 Conc, 120 | what they do (cf Lk 23:34), Mary experiences, in perfect
475 Conc, 120 | entire human race. Thus Mary becomes Mother of each and
476 Conc, 120 | obtains for us divine mercy. ~Mary is the radiant sign and
477 Conc, 120 | chosen by Glory Itself?".184 Mary lived and exercised her
478 Conc, 120 | By the gift of herself, Mary entered fully into the plan
479 Conc, 120 | Father (cf Heb 10:5-10). Mary invites everyone to accept
480 Conc, 120 | he tells you" (Jn 2:5). ~Mary shares our human condition,
481 Conc, 120 | salvation to his life. ~O Mary, ~Mother of Mercy, ~watch
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