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V. The Person of Mary / 1.
Historical character (historical versus symbol) |
| Recurrens Mensis October, 1969
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- the humble Virgin of Nazareth 7
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| Basic Teaching for Catholic Education
(USA), 1973 |
- special place of the Virgin Mary in the history of salvation and in the church 24
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| Behold Your Mother (USA), 1973
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- Remembering the coming of the Son of God among us as the Son of Mary, in one of the
earliest
New Testament passages, St. Paul wrote: "When the designated time had come, God sent forth
his
Son born of a woman, born under the law." According to the plan of the Father of mercies this
took
place "that we might receive the adoption of sons" (Gal 4:4-5). 12
- "Mary is today, even as at Ephesus, a witness to the Incarnation. She was then a pointer to
the
truly historical reality of Jesus Christ who is God. Today she must be seen as indicating the full
implications of the Incarnation for our understanding of being human." (Donal Flanagan, "Mary
in
the Ecumenical Discussion," Irish Theological Quarterly XL, July 1973) 111
- Mother of the Holy Family at Nazareth... [example to family life] 131
- [sorrows but] also the joyous years at Nazareth 134
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| Marialis Cultus, 1974
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- This devotion takes into account the part she played at decisive moments in the history of
the
salvation which her Son accomplished 56
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| Catechesi Tradendae, 1979
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- As He sat on her lap and later as He listened to her throughout the hidden life at Nazareth
73
- she was the first in time 73
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| Dominum et Vivificantem, 1986
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- Both in Isaiah and in the whole of the Old Testament the personality of the Holy Spirit is
completely hidden: in the revelation of the one God, as also in the foretelling o the future
Messiah
17
- Jesus Christ will make reference to this prediction contained in the words of Isaiah at the
beginning of his messianic activity. This will happen in the same Nazareth where he had lived
for
thirty years in the house of Joseph the carpenter, with Mary, his Virgin Mother 18
- While it is through creation that God is he in whom we all "live and move and have our
being,"
(Acts 17:28) in its turn the power of the Redemption endures and develops in the history of man
and
the world in a double "rhythm" as it were, the source of which is found in the Eternal Father.
On
the one hand there is the rhythm of the mission of the Son, who came into the world and was
born
of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit; and on the other hand there is also the
rhythm
of the mission of the Holy Spirit as he was revealed definitively by Christ 63
- While it is an historical fact that the Church came forth from the Upper Room on the day of
Pentecost, in a certain sense one can say that she has never left it. Spiritually the event of
Pentecost
does not belong only to the past: the Church is always in the Upper Room that she bears in her
heart.
The Church perseveres in prayer, like the Apostles together with Mary, the Mother of Christ, and
with those who in Jerusalem were the first seed of the Christian community and who awaited in
prayer the coming of the Holy Spirit 66
- In the time leading up to the third Millennium after Christ, while "the Spirit and the bride
say
to the Lord Jesus: Come!", this prayer of theirs is filled, as always, with an eschatological
significance, which is also destined to give fulness of meaning to the celebration of the great
Jubilee.
It is a prayer concerned with the salvific destinies towards which the Holy Spirit by his action
opens
hearts throughout the history of man on earth. But at the same time this prayer is directed
towards
a precise moment of history which highlights the "fullness of time" marked by the year 2000.
The
Church wishes to prepare for this Jubilee in the Holy Spirit, just as the Virgin of Nazareth in
whom
the Lord was made flesh was prepared by the Holy Spirit. 66
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| Redemptoris Mater, 1987
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- from the time of her Immaculate Conception preceded the coming of the Savior, the rising
of
the
"Sun of Justice" in the history of the human race. (Ineffabilis Deus) 3
- Her presence in the midst of Israel - a presence so discreet as to pass almost unnoticed by
the
eyes of her contemporaries ... 3
- we Christians who know that the providential plan of the Most Holy Trinity is the central
reality
of Revelation and of faith feel the need to emphasize the unique presence of the Mother of
Christ
in
history 3
- [Mary, a concrete part of the history of salvation] a great historical process, comparable "to
a
journey." ... within which the Blessed Virgin Mary continues to "go before" the People of God
6
- [Annunciation] takes place at Nazareth, within the concrete circumstances of the history of
Israel, the people which first received God's promises. 8
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| The VM in Intellectual and Spiritual
Formation, 1988 |
- [necessity] of drawing out the relevance of the human reality of the Virgin to people in our
own
time, stressing the fact that she is an historical person, a human Jewish girl 15
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| Mulieris Dignitatem, 1988
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- think of this [Incarnation] even in the setting of the history of Israel, the Chosen People of
which
Mary is a daughter ... 3
| Redemptoris Custos, St. Joseph, 1989
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- Joseph is visited by the messenger as
"Mary's spouse," as the one who in due time
must give this
name to the Son to be born of the Virgin of Nazareth who is married to him.3
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| Tertio Millennio Adveniente, 1994
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- the unassuming Young Woman of Nazareth , who two thousand years ago 59
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Catechism of the Catholic Church,
1994
Fidei Depositum, 1992 |
423 We believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth, born a Jew of a daughter of Israel at
Bethlehem ... |
Novo Millennio Ineunte, 2001
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- Christianity is a religion rooted in history!
It was in the soil of history that God chose to establish a covenant with Israel and so prepare the
birth of the Son from the womb of Mary "in the fullness of time" (Gal 4:4). 5
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