| Documents |
II. Mary and Jesus Christ |
| Lumen Gentium,
1964 |
- united to him by a close
and indissoluble tie 53
- this union of the mother
with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the
time of Christ's conception up to his death...
57
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| Mense Maio, 1965
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- every encounter with her
can only result in an encounter with Christ himself 5
- we continually turn to
Mary...to seek...Christ she holds in her
arms6
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| Signum Magnum,
1967 |
- was united to Him "by a
close, indissoluble bond," [LG 53]5
- was accorded a special
"role...in the mystery of the Incarnate Word" [LG 54] that is,
"in the economy of salvation." [LG 55] 5
- [after Ascension] she
remained united to her son by her enduring and ardent love
19
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| Creed, Paul VI,
1968 |
- joined by a close and
indissoluble bond to the Mysteries of the Incarnation and
Redemption [18: cf. LG 53, 58, 61] 14
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| General
Catechetical Directory, 1971 |
- Mary is united in an
ineffable manner with the Lord 68
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| Behold Your
Mother (USA), 1973 |
- She is totally dependent
on her son. 6
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| Marialis Cultus,
1974 |
- In the Virgin Mary
everything is relative to Christ and dependent upon Him. It was
with a view to Christ that God the Father from all eternity chose
her to be the all-holy Mother and adorned her with gifts of the
Spirit granted to no one else. 25
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| Redemptor Hominis,
1979 |
- [pastoral need]
if we feel a special need, in this difficult and responsible
phase of the history of the Church and of mankind, to turn to
Christ, who is Lord of the Church and Lord of man's history on
account of the mystery of the Redemption, we believe that nobody
else can bring us as Mary can into the divine and human dimension
of this mystery. Final paragraph.
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| Redemptoris Mater,
1987 |
- "only in the mystery of
the Incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light," then
this principle must be applied in a very particular way to that
exceptional "daughter of the human race," that extraordinary
"woman" who became the Mother of Christ. Only in the mystery of
Christ is her mystery fully made clear. (cf. GS 22) 4
- ... she made present to
humanity the mystery of Christ. And she still continues to do so.
Through the mystery of Christ, she too is present within mankind.
Thus through the mystery of the Son the mystery of the Mother is
also made clear. 19
- united by a close and
indissoluble bond (LG 53)41
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| The VM in
Intellectual and Spiritual Formation, 1988
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- The Council, explaining
the participation of Mary in the history of salvation expounded,
first of all the multiple aspects of the relationship between the
Virgin and Christ: 7
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Catechism of the
Catholic Church, 1994
Fidei Depositum, 1992 |
Christ and
Mary: 437, 467, 469, 726, 970, 1138, 2162, 2665
[BB] |
| Ecclesia de
Eucharistia, 2003 |
- I would like to rekindle
this Eucharistic "amazement" by the present Encyclical Letter, in
continuity with the Jubilee heritage which I have left to the
Church in the Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte and
its Marian crowning, Rosarium Virginis Mariae. To
contemplate the face of Christ, and to contemplate it with Mary,
is the "program" which I have set before the Church at the dawn
of the third millennium, summoning her to put out into the deep
on the sea of history with the enthusiasm of the new
evangelization. 6
- By proclaiming the Year
of the Rosary, I wish to put this, my twenty-fifth anniversary,
under the aegis of the contemplation of Christ at the school of
Mary. 7
- In my Apostolic Letter
Rosarium Virginis Mariae, I pointed to the Blessed Virgin
Mary as our teacher in contemplating Christ's face, and among the
mysteries of light I included the institution of the
Eucharist.102 Mary can guide us towards this most holy sacrament,
because she herself has a profound relationship with it.
53
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