| Behold Your Mother (USA), 1973
|
- There are striking likenesses between the Annunciation and Pentecost. Mary, the great
mother
figure for the Church, is present not only at the Annunciation, but praying with her Son's
disciples
before Pentecost. 79
- After Christ's Resurrection, surrounded by His disciples, Mary prayed for the coming of that
same Spirit, in order that the Church, the Body of her Son, might be born on Pentecost.
115
| Catechesi Tradendae, 1979
|
- Virgin of Pentecost [title, invoking her intercession] 73
| Dominum et Vivificantem, 1986
|
- The era of the Church began with the "coming," that is to say with the descent of the Holy
Spirit
on the Apostles gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, together with Mary, the Lord's
Mother
(cf. Acts 1:14) 25
- Christ's prophecies in the farewell discourse found their most exact and direct confirmation
on
the day of Pentecost, in particular the prediction which we are dealing with: "The Counselor ...
will
convince the world concerning sin." (Jn 16:7) On that day, the promised Holy Spirit came down
upon the Apostles gathered in prayer together with Mary the Mother of Jesus, in the same Upper
room, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles: "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
began
to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance," (Acts 2:4) "thus bringing back to
unity
the scattered races and offering to the Father the first-fruits of all the nations." (cf. Irenaeus,
Adversus Haereses) 30
| Redemptoris Mater, 1987
|
- [birth of Church] continuity of Mary's motherhood: "Since it pleased God not to manifest
solemnly the mystery of the salvation of the human race until he poured forth the Spirit
promised
by
Christ, we see the Apostles before the day of Pentecost 'continuing with one mind in prayer with
the
women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren' (Acts 1: 14). We see Mary
prayerfully
imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation." (LG
59)
24 [See also 26 which deals extensively with this theme]
[See also 28, 40, 42, 44, 49]
- [Pentecost solemnity chosen for start of Marian Year 1987] 49
| Letter to Priests for Holy
Thursday, 1988
|
- The Council teaches that Mary advanced
in her pilgrimage of faith through her perfect union with her Son unto the cross and goes before,
presenting herself in an eminent and singular way to the whole People of God, which follows the
same path, in the footsteps of Christ in the Holy Spirit. Should not we priests unite ourselves
with her in a special way, we who as pastors of the Church must also lead the communities
entrusted to us along the path which from the Upper Room of Pentecost follows Christ
throughout human history? 7
|
| The VM in Intellectual and Spiritual
Formation, 1988 |
- Full of faith in the promise of the Son (cf. LK 24:49), the Virgin is present, praying in the
midst of the community of disciples: Persevering with them in one accord, we see Mary
prayerfully imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the
Annunciation: (LG 59). 8
- the Virgin was actively present in the life of the Church...
- in its manifestation (the
mystery of Pentecost) 17
| To All Consecrated Persons, Marian
Year, 1988 |
- [See spiritual motherhood above]
21
- Those who together with Mary in the Upper Room in Jerusalem were awaiting the day of
Pentecost have already experienced the "new era." having received the breath of the Spirit of
truth
they are to go out of the Upper Room in order to bear witness, in union with this Spirit, to Christ
crucified and risen (cf. Jn 15:26-27) In doing so they are to reveal God who, as love, embraces
and fills the world 23
- Try to be present with Mary in the Upper Room at Pentecost. She more than anyone will
bring you close to this saving vision of the truth about God and man, about God and the world,
which is contained in Saint Paul's words: "For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in
God." 26
| Redemptoris Custos, St. Joseph, 1989
|
- [Mary's pilgrimage of faith] is a path along
which especially at the time of Calvary and Pentecost
Mary will precede in a perfect way. [LG 63] 5
- the path that was Joseph's his pilgrimage of faith ended first, that is to say, before
Mary stood at the
foot of the cross on Golgotha and before the time after Christ returned to the Father, when she
was present in the
upper room on Pentecost 6
|
Catechism of the Catholic Church,
1994
Fidei Depositum, 1992 |
726 ... she was present with the Twelve, who "with one accord devoted themselves to
prayer," (Acts 1:14) at the dawn of the "end time" which the Spirit was to inaugurate on the
morning of Pentecost with the manifestation of the Church.
965 After her Son's Ascension, Mary "aided the beginnings of the Church by her
prayers." (LG 69) In her association with the apostles and several women, "we also see Mary by
her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the
Annunciation." (LG 59)
Orientale Lumen, 1995
Ut Unum Sint, 1995 |
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| Ecclesia in Oceania, 2001
|
- In our time, she is no less present to the
Church than she was at Pentecost, gathered with the Apostles in prayer (cf. Acts1:14). With her
prayer and presence, she will surely support the new evangelization just as she supported the
first. In times of difficulty and pain, Mary has been an unfailing refuge for those seeking peace
and healing. 53
|
| Rosarium Virginis Mariae, 2002
|
- Thereafter Mary's gaze, ever filled with adoration and wonder, would never leave him. ... On
the morning of Easter hers would be a gaze radiant with the joy of the Resurrection, and finally,
on the day of Pentecost, a gaze afire with the outpouring of the Spirit (cf. Acts 1:14). 10
- At the center of this unfolding sequence of the glory of the Son and the Mother, the Rosary
sets before us the third glorious mystery, Pentecost, which reveals the face of the Church as a
family gathered together with Mary, enlivened by the powerful outpouring of the Spirit and
ready for the mission of evangelization. The contemplation of this scene, like that of the other
glorious mysteries, ought to lead the faithful to an ever greater appreciation of their new life in
Christ, lived in the heart of the Church, a life of which the scene of Pentecost itself is the great
"icon." 23
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| Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 2003
|
- At first glance, the Gospel is silent on this
subject. The account of the institution of the Eucharist on the night of Holy Thursday makes no
mention of Mary. Yet we know that she was present among the Apostles who prayed "with one
accord" (cf. Acts 1:14) in the first community which gathered after the Ascension in expectation
of Pentecost. Certainly Mary must have been present at the Eucharistic celebrations of the first
generation of Christians, who were devoted to "the breaking of bread" (Acts 2:42). 53
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