| General Catechetical Directory, 1971
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- full of grace (Lk 1:28) 68
| Behold Your Mother (USA), 1973
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- Gospel of Luke: Mary is the perfect example of awaiting the Messiah with a pure and
humble
spirit. Luke sees in Mary the Daughter of Zion who rejoices because God is with her and who
praises His greatness for pulling down the mighty and exalting the humble. 17
- The bridge-role of Mary between the Old Testament and New, between expectation and
fulfillment, ... is an integral element of the Gospel view of Mary. The "handmaid of the Lord"
in
St. Luke's infancy chapters, and the "woman" in St. John's Cana and Calvary narratives is at once
the individual "Daughter of Zion," in whom Old Testament hopes are achieved, and the type of
the Church, Bride of Christ, new mother of all men. 20
| Marialis Cultus, 1974
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- [ liturgy ] 6
| The VM in Intellectual and Spiritual
Formation, 1988 |
- attention [to Mary and to her mission in the history of salvation] is already evident in some
of
the New Testament writings and in a number of pages by authors in the sub-apostolic age.
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| Gaudete in Domino, 1975
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- No one is excluded from the joy brought
by the Lord. The great joy announced by the angel on
Christmas night is truly for all the people, both for the people of Israel then anxiously awaiting a
Savior, and for the
numberless people made up of all those who, in time to come, would receive its message and
strive to live by it. The
blessed Virgin Mary was the first to have received its announcement, from the angel Gabriel,
and
her Magnificat
was already the exultant hymn of all the humble. #
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| Mulieris Dignitatem, 1988
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- The biblical exemplar of the "woman" finds its culmination in the motherhood of the
Mother
of God. The words of the Proto-evangelium - "I will put enmity between you and the woman" -
find here a fresh confirmation. We see that through Mary - through her maternal "fiat," ... - God
begins a New Covenant with humanity. .. Precisely because this Covenant is to be fulfilled "in
flesh and blood," its beginning is in the Mother. Thanks solely to her and to her virginal and
maternal "fiat," the "Son of the Most High" can say to the Father: "A body you have prepared for
me. Lo, I have come to do your will, O God" (cf. Heb 10:5, 7). 19
| Redemptoris Custos, St. Joseph, 1989
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- If, after her marriage to Joseph, Mary "is
found to be with child of the Holy Spirit," this fact
corresponds to all that the Annunciation means, in particular to Mary's final words: "Let it be
to me according
to your word" (Lk 1:38). 2
- From the time of the Annunciation, both Joseph and Mary found themselves, in a certain
sense, at the heart
of the mystery hidden for ages in the mind of God, a mystery which had taken on flesh:
"The Word became
flesh and dwelt among us" (Jn 1:14). 15
- While Mary's life was the bringing to fullness of that fiat first spoken at the
Annunciation, at the
moment of Joseph's own "annunciation" he said nothing; instead he simply "did as
the angel of the
Lord commanded him" (Mt 1:24). 17
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