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Centesimus annus
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1 5, 47 | child to develop in the mother's womb from the moment of
2 6, 62 | unaware of it.~Mary, the Mother of the Redeemer, constantly
Dives in misericordia
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3 3, 4(52) | root, denotes the love of a mother (rehem = mother's womb).
4 3, 4(52) | love of a mother (rehem = mother's womb). From the deep and
5 3, 4(52) | the unity - that links a mother to her child there springs
6 4, 5(60) | in the motherhood of the Mother of God (cf. Lk. 1:49-54).~
7 4, 5(61) | identifies God's mercy with a mother's love.~
8 5, 9 | 9. Mother of Mercy ~These words of
9 5, 9 | to the same degree as the Mother of the crucified One, the
10 5, 9 | this sense, we call her the Mother of mercy: our Lady of mercy,
11 5, 9 | mercy: our Lady of mercy, or Mother of divine mercy; in each
12 5, 9 | which we attribute to the Mother of God speak of her principally,
13 5, 9 | principally, however, as the Mother of the crucified and risen
14 5, 9 | heart of her who was the Mother of the crucified and risen
15 5, 9 | fruitful because in the Mother of God it is based upon
16 5, 9 | accept the merciful love of a mother. This is one of the great
17 6, 10 | included in the words of the Mother of God when she glorified
18 8, 15 | characteristics and which, like a mother, follows each of her children,
19 8, 15 | seeks to be the spiritual mother of mankind, express in this
Dominum et vivificantem
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20 1, 16 | embrace together with his Mother.61 The Virgin Mary, who "
21 1, 18 | carpenter, with Mary, his Virgin Mother. When he had occasion to
22 1, 25 | together with Mary, the Lord's Mother.95 The time of the Church
23 2, 30 | prayer together with Mary the Mother of Jesus, in the same Upper
24 3, 49 | place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed
25 3, 66 | together with Mary, the Mother of Christ, and with those
26 3, 66 | praying Church with the Mother of Christ has been part
27 3, 66 | charity,...becomes herself a mother" and "herself is a virgin,
28 3, 66 | her Spouse. Imitating the Mother of The Lord, and by the
29 3, 66 | united with the Virgin Mother, prays unceasingly as the
Ecclesia de Eucharistia
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30 1, 19 | honour Mary, the ever-Virgin Mother of Jesus Christ our Lord
31 6, 53 | we cannot neglect Mary, Mother and model of the Church.
32 6, 57 | Christ did with regard to his Mother for our sake is also present.
33 6, 57 | also says: “Behold your mother!” (cf. Jn 19: 26-27).~Experiencing
34 6, 57 | given to us anew as our Mother. It also means taking on
35 6, 57 | ourselves at the school of his Mother and allowing her to accompany
36 6, 57 | with the Church and as the Mother of the Church, at each of
Evangelium vitae
Chap., §
37 1, 13 | to kill the fetus in the mother's womb without recourse
38 1, 22 | itself, from being "mater" (mother), is now reduced to being "
39 2, 39 | loving hands, like those of a mother who accepts, nurtures and
40 2, 39 | like a child quieted at its mother's breast; like a child that
41 2, 43 | of the first woman, "the mother of all the living" (Gen
42 2, 44 | the forming of life in the mother's womb, of giving birth
43 2, 44 | miraculously formed his body in his mother's womb. Here he finds reason
44 2, 44 | the life of a child in its mother's womb occur again and again
45 2, 44 | human caprice? Certainly the mother of the seven brothers did
46 2, 45 | The infant leaped, the mother was filled with the Spirit.
47 2, 45 | filled with the Spirit. The mother was not filled before the
48 2, 45 | Holy Spirit, he filled his mother too".36~ ~
49 3, 58 | sometimes it is precisely the mother herself who makes the decision
50 3, 58 | tragic and painful for the mother, insofar as the decision
51 3, 59 | 59. As well as the mother, there are often other people
52 3, 60 | that of the father nor the mother; it is rather the life of
53 3, 61 | for the human being in the mother's womb that they require
54 3, 61(60) | are he who took me from my mother's womb" (Ps 71:6; cf. Is
55 3, 61 | they are still in their mother's womb, "are already under
56 3, 63 | risks for the child and the mother, and are meant to make possible
57 4, 84 | knitted us together in our mother's womb, and saw and loved
58 4, 94 | honour one's father and mother (cf. Ex 20:12; Lev 19:3).
59 4, 99 | woman's personality".134 A mother welcomes and carries in
60 Conc, 102 | all was Mary, the Virgin Mother; she is thus most closely
61 Conc, 102 | which she is the type, is a mother of all who are reborn to
62 Conc, 102 | life. She is in fact the mother of the Life by which everyone
63 Conc, 103 | God". Mary is truly the Mother of God, the Theotokos, in
64 Conc, 103 | to be the "new Eve", the mother of believers, the mother
65 Conc, 103 | mother of believers, the mother of the "living" (cf. Gen
66 Conc, 103 | Son: "When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he
67 Conc, 103 | standing near, he said to his mother, ?Woman, behold, your son!' " (
68 Conc, 104 | is directed against his mother. To save the life of her
69 Conc, 105 | The whole of the Virgin Mother's life is in fact pervaded
70 Conc, 105 | dawn of the new world, ~Mother of the living, ~to you do
71 Conc, 105 | cause of life ~Look down, O Mother, ~upon the vast numbers ~
Fides et ratio
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72 Conc, 108(132)| Homily in Praise of Holy Mary Mother of God: PG 43, 493.~
Laborem exercens
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73 4, 19 | social re-evaluation of the mother's role, of the toil connected
74 4, 19 | to make it possible for a mother - without inhibiting her
75 4, 19 | goals of the mission of a mother26. ~In this context it should
Redemptor hominis
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76 1, 2 | Lord, and with trust in the Mother of Christ and of the Church,
77 3, 13 | through being conceived in his mother's womb and being born of
78 3, 13 | womb and being born of his mother, and precisely on account
79 3, 13 | beneath the heart of his mother.~
80 4, 22 | 22. The Mother in whom we trust~When therefore
81 4, 22 | say that the Church is a mother191 and also what it means
82 4, 22 | our time, has need of a Mother. We owe a debt of special
83 4, 22 | teaching, proclaimed the Mother of Christ "Mother of the
84 4, 22 | proclaimed the Mother of Christ "Mother of the Church"193, and that
85 4, 22 | Successor to turn to Mary as Mother of the Church at the close
86 4, 22 | his papal service. Mary is Mother of the Church because, on
87 4, 22 | explicitly extended his Mother's maternity in a way that
88 4, 22 | John, spiritually took this Mother.to their own homes199, and
89 4, 22 | heart of both a virgin and a mother, has always followed the
90 4, 22 | the inexhaustibility of a mother. The special characteristic
91 4, 22 | the motherly love that the Mother of God inserts in the mystery
92 4, 22 | that the mystery of the Mother consists. The Church, which
93 4, 22 | each of us through this Mother and thus takes on tokens
94 4, 22 | together with Mary the Mother of Jesus202, as the Apostles
95 4, 22 | implore Mary, the heavenly Mother of the Church, to be so
Redemptoris Mater
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96 Int, 1 | 1. The Mother of the Redeemer has a precise
97 Int, 1(1) | the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in the Mystery of
98 Int, 1 | condition as spouse and mother.~
99 Int, 2 | Church's doctrine on the Mother of Christ, whom she venerates
100 Int, 2 | venerates as her beloved Mother and as her model in faith
101 Int, 2 | special veneration which the Mother of Christ receives in the
102 Int, 3 | directs our gaze towards his Mother. In recent years, various
103 Int, 3 | eternity destined to be his Mother already existed on earth.
104 Int, 3 | the unique presence of the Mother of Christ in history, especially
105 Int, 4 | presenting in its teaching the Mother of God in the mystery of
106 Int, 4 | extraordinary "woman" who became the Mother of Christ. Only in the mystery
107 Int, 4 | clearer the mystery of the Mother of the Incarnate Word. The
108 Int, 4 | Church's faith. Mary is the Mother of God (= Theotókos), since
109 Int, 4 | fullness the mystery of his Mother. In turn, the dogma of the
110 Int, 5 | the Church. Mary, as the Mother of Christ, is in a particular
111 Int, 5 | without referring to Mary, the Mother of the Incarnate Word.~In
112 Int, 5 | twofold bond" which unites the Mother of God with Christ and with
113 Int, 5 | a question of the Virgin Mother's life-story, of her personal
114 Int, 5 | Mary did - the qualities of mother and virgin. She is a virgin
115 Int, 5 | and "becomes herself a mother," for "she brings forth
116 Int, 6 | Council emphasizes that the Mother of God is already the eschatological
117 Int, 6 | no longer belongs to the Mother of the Son of God: glorified
118 1, 7 | for the "woman" who is the Mother of him to whom the Father
119 1, 8 | the Father "has chosen" as Mother of his Son in the Incarnation.
120 1, 9 | the election of Mary as Mother of the Son of God. But at
121 1, 9 | chosen and destined to be the Mother of Christ. If this election
122 1, 9 | Council says, Mary is "the Mother of the Son of God. As a
123 1, 10 | grace" is manifested in the Mother of God through the fact
124 1, 10 | generation, gave life as a mother. The liturgy does not hesitate
125 1, 10 | not hesitate to call her "mother of her Creator"26 and to
126 1, 10 | to the Son's love for the Mother, and thus corresponding
127 1, 11 | sun" (Rev. 12:1).~Mary, Mother of the Incarnate Word, is
128 1, 12 | this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to
129 1, 12 | that before her stands the Mother of the Lord, the Mother
130 1, 12 | Mother of the Lord, the Mother of the Messiah. The son
131 1, 13 | Mary was to become the "Mother of the Lord," and the divine
132 1, 13 | consent of the predestined Mother should precede the Incarnation."33
133 1, 13 | Zechariah's house as the Mother of the Son of God. This
134 1, 13 | s joyful discovery: "The mother of my Lord comes to me"!~
135 1, 14 | Spirit, she would become the Mother of God's Son in accordance
136 1, 15 | Mary hears of the Son whose Mother she is to become and to
137 1, 15 | that instant the was the mother of the "Messiah King," nevertheless
138 1, 16 | the Son of Mary, and his Mother with him, will experience
139 1, 17 | revealed to Mary, she, his Mother, is in contact with the
140 1, 17 | s son" (Mt. 13:55).~The Mother of that Son, therefore,
141 1, 17 | found in the Temple, and his Mother asked him, "Son, why have
142 1, 17 | Mt. 11:27); thus even his Mother, to whom had been revealed
143 1, 18 | history. Through faith the Mother shares in the death of her
144 1, 19 | also says - call Mary the "mother of the liing" and often
145 1, 19 | the Son the mystery of the Mother is also made clear.~
146 1 | 3. Behold your mother~
147 1, 20 | praise of Mary as Jesus' mother according to the flesh.
148 1, 20 | the flesh. Probably the Mother of Jesus was not personally
149 1, 20 | which Mary is present as the mother who conceives Jesus in her
150 1, 20 | nurses him: the nursing mother referred to by the woman
151 1, 20 | woman upon her who was his mother according to the flesh,
152 1, 20 | Jesus is told that "his mother and brothers are standing
153 1, 20 | see him," he replies: "My mother and my brothers are those
154 1, 20 | distancing himself from his mother according to the flesh?
155 1, 20 | fact that she became the mother of Jesus according to the
156 1, 20 | the person of this Virgin Mother, who called herself only "
157 1, 20 | spirit, she herself as a mother became ever more open to
158 1, 20 | Thus in a sense Mary as Mother became the first "disciple"
159 1, 21 | She appears there as the Mother of Jesus at the beginning
160 1, 21 | Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; Jesus
161 1, 21 | been invited because of his mother. We are familiar with the
162 1, 21 | at Cana in Galilee as the Mother of Jesus, and in a significant
163 1, 21 | When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, 'They
164 1, 21 | though Jesus' reply to his mother sounds like a refusal (especially
165 1, 21 | existed between Jesus and his mother? How can we probe the mystery
166 1, 21 | but in her position as mother. She knows that as such
167 1, 21 | And that is not all. As a mother she also wishes the messianic
168 1, 21 | whatever he tells you." The Mother of Christ presents herself
169 1, 22 | proclaims: Mary became "a mother to us in the order of grace."
170 1, 22 | of divine Providence, the mother who nourished the divine
171 1, 23 | cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister,
172 1, 23 | were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife
173 1, 23 | Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he
174 1, 23 | standing near, he said to his mother: 'Woman, behold your son!'
175 1, 23 | disciple, 'Behold, your mother!' And from that hour the
176 1, 23 | particular solicitude for his Mother, whom he is leaving in such
177 1, 23 | new relationship between Mother and Son, the whole truth
178 1, 23 | Redeemer's Paschal Mystery. The Mother of Christ, who stands at
179 1, 23 | all humanity - is given as mother to every single individual
180 1, 23 | hesitate to call Mary "the Mother of Christ and mother of
181 1, 23 | the Mother of Christ and mother of mankind": since she "
182 1, 23 | Indeed she is 'clearly the mother of the members of Christ...
183 1, 23(47) | received from Jesus Mary as Mother": Comm. in loan., I, 6:
184 1, 24 | that, as he speaks to his mother from the Cross, he calls
185 1, 24 | Christ in order to be his Mother and thus the Holy Mother
186 1, 24 | Mother and thus the Holy Mother of God, through the Church
187 1, 24 | with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren' (
188 1, 24 | the mystery of Christ as Mother becomes - by the will of
189 1, 24 | your son!"; "Behold, your mother."~
190 2 | PART II - THE MOTHER OF GOD AT THE CENTER OF
191 2, 26 | devoted to prayer" as the "mother of Jesus" (cf. Acts 1:13-
192 2, 26 | Mary, and that she was his Mother, and that as such she was
193 2, 27 | Incarnation," she thinks of the Mother of Christ with profound
194 2, 27 | Christ leads us to bless his Mother, in the form of special
195 2, 27 | have recourse to her as his Mother, but also seek in her faith
196 2, 28 | together with Mary, the mother of Jesus" (Acts 1:14). As
197 2, 28 | continents, seek to meet the Mother of the Lord, the one who
198 2, 28 | and therefore became the Mother of Emmanuel. This is the
199 2, 28 | of the world and of his Mother. This is the message of
200 2, 28 | of God seek to meet the Mother of God in order to find,
201 2, 29 | who live due honor to the Mother of our Lord and Savior.
202 2, 30 | turn, contemplation of the Mother of God brings us to a more
203 2, 30 | Jesus tells them - as their Mother recommends (cf. Jn. 2:5)-
204 2, 30 | they recognize her as the Mother of the Lord and hold that
205 2, 30 | turn accepts her as his mother.~Therefore, why should we
206 2, 30 | look to her as our common Mother, who prays for the unity
207 2, 31 | Virgin...God's Most Holy Mother."78~The brethren of these
208 2, 31 | with boundless trust to the Mother of the Lord, celebrated
209 2, 31 | proclaim the Virgin as "true Mother of God," since "our Lord
210 2, 31 | begotten of Mary, the Virgin Mother of God according to his
211 2, 31 | which unites Mary, as the Mother of God, to Christ and the
212 2, 31 | beauty of the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Word made flesh.83~
213 2, 32 | Divine Office, praise of the Mother is linked with praise of
214 2, 32 | community sings in honor of the Mother of God: "It is truly just
215 2, 32 | proclaim you blessed, O Mother of God, who are most blessed,
216 2, 32 | most blessed, all pure and Mother of our God. We magnify you
217 2, 32 | God. You who are truly the Mother of God."~These praises,
218 2, 32 | devotion to the "All Holy Mother of God."~
219 2, 33 | Cross, also images of the Mother of God, of the angels and
220 2, 33 | Son which glorifies the Mother. Sometimes she embraces
221 2, 33 | presence and protection of the Mother of God. In these Icons the
222 2, 35 | no setting."88~The Virgin Mother is constantly present on
223 2, 36 | concentrated within herself as the mother of Christ is the whole salvific
224 2, 37 | earthly journey on that of the Mother of God, constantly repeats
225 2, 37 | new Eve"91 and the true "Mother of the living,"92 boldly
226 2, 37 | universe. It is to her as Mother and Model that the Church
227 3, 38 | election Mary is the earthly Mother of the Father's consubstantial
228 3, 38 | of redemption "she is a mother to us in the order of grace."99
229 3, 39 | power of the Holy Spirit the Mother of the Son of God. It can
230 3, 39 | accepted her election as Mother of the Son of God, guided
231 3, 39 | supreme office and dignity of Mother of the Son of God refers,
232 3, 39 | basic fact of being the Mother of the Son of God is from
233 3, 39 | became not only the "nursing mother" of the Son of Man but also
234 3, 39 | interior willingness of his Mother, Jesus Christ prepared her
235 3, 39 | become for all people their "mother in the order of grace."
236 3, 40 | was present there as the Mother of the glorified Lord. She
237 3, 40 | Lord," left by her Son as Mother in the midst of the infant
238 3, 40 | infant Church: "Behold your mother." Thus there began to develop
239 3, 40 | special bond between this Mother and the Church. For the
240 3, 40 | for all her children, the Mother cooperates in the saving
241 3, 40(105) | the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother and Mediatrix of Grace,
242 3, 41 | Christ, for, if as Virgin and Mother she was singularly united
243 3, 41 | her eternal glory. For the Mother of Christ is glorified as "
244 3, 42 | bear on the role of the Mother of Christ in the life of
245 3, 42 | united with the Church: the Mother of God is a figure of the
246 3, 42 | mission of this Son. As Mother, "believing and obeying...
247 3, 42 | which exists between the Mother of Christ and the Church.120
248 3, 42 | Church.120 As Virgin and Mother, Mary remains for the Church
249 3, 42 | the Church too is "called mother and virgin," and these names
250 3, 43 | Church "becomes herself a mother by accepting God's word
251 3, 43 | too the Church becomes a mother when, accepting with fidelity
252 3, 43 | upon the example of the Mother of the Son, who is "the
253 3, 44 | like her: "Imitating the Mother of her Lord, and by the
254 3, 44 | the sons and daughters of Mother Church. The Church's motherhood
255 3, 44 | model and figure of the Mother of God but also with her "
256 3, 44 | sons and daughters, as the Mother of that Son whom the Father "
257 3, 44 | words spoken by Jesus to his Mother at the hour of the Cross: "
258 3, 44 | the disciple: "Behold your mother" (Jn. 19:26-27). They are
259 3, 44 | the new motherhood of the Mother of the Redeemer: a spiritual
260 3, 45 | between two people: between mother and child and between child
261 3, 45 | child and between child and mother. Even when the same woman
262 3, 45 | when the same woman is the mother of many children, her personal
263 3, 45 | this is true both for the mother and for the child. Each
264 3, 45 | characterizes the union between mother and child. In the light
265 3, 45 | testament on Golgotha his Mother's new motherhood is expressed
266 3, 45 | together with his Master's Mother, but it is also true of
267 3, 45 | The Redeemer entrusts his mother to the disciple, and at
268 3, 45 | gives her to him as his mother. Mary's motherhood, which
269 3, 45 | entrusting of humanity to the Mother of Christ, which in the
270 3, 45 | Jesus on the Cross to his Mother and to himself, adds: "And
271 3, 45 | assumed responsibility for the Mother of his beloved Master. And
272 3, 45 | since Mary was given as a mother to him personally, the statement
273 3, 45 | relationship of a child with its mother. And all of this can be
274 3, 45 | particular to the love of a mother.~The Marian dimension of
275 3, 45 | filial entrusting to the Mother of Christ, which began with
276 3, 45 | Apostle John, "welcomes" the Mother of Christ "into his own
277 3, 45 | with which the Redeemer's Mother "cares for the brethren
278 3, 46 | self-entrusting of a child to its mother, not only has its beginning
279 3, 46 | her faith as Spouse and Mother she wishes to act upon all
280 3, 46 | unique relationship with the Mother of the Redeemer, a subject
281 3, 47 | proclaimed that Mary is the Mother of the Church, "that is,
282 3, 47 | of the Church, "that is, Mother of the entire Christian
283 3, 47 | believe that the Most Holy Mother of God, the new Eve, the
284 3, 47 | of God, the new Eve, the Mother of the Church, carries on
285 3, 47 | concerning the Blessed Virgin, Mother of Christ, is an effective
286 3, 47 | present in the Church as the Mother of Christ, and at the same
287 3, 47 | at the same time as that Mother whom Christ, in the mystery
288 3, 47 | Church. In this sense Mary, Mother of the Church, is also the
289 3, 47 | must draw "from the Virgin Mother of God the most authentic
290 3, 47 | special bond linking the Mother of Christ with the Church,
291 3, 47 | present in the Church as the Mother of the Redeemer, takes part,
292 3, 47 | Redeemer, takes part, as a mother, in that monumental struggle;
293 3, 47 | Church maintains with the Mother of God a link which embraces,
294 3, 47 | venerates her as the spiritual mother of humanity and the advocate
295 3, 48 | between humanity and this Mother which has led me to proclaim
296 3, 48 | exceptional holiness of the Mother of Christ as expressed in
297 3, 48 | special presence of the Mother of God in the mystery of
298 3, 48 | the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in the mystery of
299 3, 49 | day of Pentecost. Christ's Mother - who was present at the
300 3, 49 | maternal cooperation of the Mother of God in the work of salvation
301 3, 50 | honor and celebrate the Mother of the Lord, especially
302 3, 50 | concur in reverencing the Mother of God, ever Virgin."144
303 3, 50 | that in the presence of the Mother of Christ we feel that we
304 3, 50 | persevering prayer to the Mother of God and Mother of mankind.
305 3, 50 | to the Mother of God and Mother of mankind. Let them implore
306 Conc, 51 | is the following:~"Loving Mother of the Redeemer, gate of
307 Conc, 51 | stands Mary. As the loving Mother of the Redeemer, she was
308 Conc, 52 | addressed to Mary, the "loving Mother of the Redeemer," the invocation
309 Conc, 52 | both the Redeemer and his Mother with the plea: "Assist us."
310 Conc, 52 | Church sees the Blessed Mother of God in the saving mystery
Redemptoris missio
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311 Conc, 92 | together with Mary, the Mother of Jesus" (Acts 1:14), in
312 Conc, 92 | example of Mary, the Church's Mother and model: Mary is the model
Slavorum apostoli
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313 8, 32 | the intercession of the Mother of your Son and Mother of
314 8, 32 | the Mother of your Son and Mother of the Church, the intercession
Sollicitudo rei socialis
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315 7, 49 | ancient antiphon: "Holy Mother of God, despise not our
316 7, 49 | Virgin." ~Mary most holy, our Mother and Queen, is the one who
Ut unum sint
Chap., §
317 1, 12 | devotion towards the Virgin Mother of God. They also share
318 3, 79 | 5) the Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church,
319 3, 79 | the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ'
Veritatis splendor
Chap., §
320 1, 6 | Honour your father and mother; also, You shall love your
321 1, 12 | or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for
322 1, 13 | Honour your father and mother; also, You shall love your
323 3, 107 | above all in the Virgin Mother of God "full of grace" and "
324 3, 108 | the fruitfulness of Holy Mother Church. As Pope Paul VI
325 Conc | Mary, Mother of Mercy ~
326 Conc, 118 | research of moralists, to Mary, Mother of God and Mother of Mercy. ~
327 Conc, 118 | Mary, Mother of God and Mother of Mercy. ~Mary is Mother
328 Conc, 118 | Mother of Mercy. ~Mary is Mother of Mercy because her Son,
329 Conc, 120 | 120. Mary is also Mother of Mercy because it is to
330 Conc, 120 | race. Thus Mary becomes Mother of each and every one of
331 Conc, 120 | and every one of us, the Mother who obtains for us divine
332 Conc, 120 | can be more noble than the Mother of God? Who can be more
333 Conc, 120 | man and loves him with a Mother's love. Precisely for this
334 Conc, 120 | salvation to his life. ~O Mary, ~Mother of Mercy, ~watch over all
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