Tag: encarnacion

The Incarnation

Explaining the Faith – Why God Became Man: The Meaning of the Incarnation

https://www.thedivinemercy.org/videos/why-god-became-man-meaning-incarnation-explaining-faith

God’s Mercy in the Mystery of the Incarnation

https://www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/gods-mercy-mystery-incarnation

ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: We bow at the line of the Creed about the Incarnation because Heaven touches the earth. Minute 29′

Explaining What the Creed Means Line by Line: Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar

GOD’S PLAN A WAS ALWAYS TO COME DOWN TO RAISE MANKIND TO HIS DIVINITY

Incarnation – Treatment of the doctrine

https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/incarnation

OFFICIAL CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH : He Was Conceived By The Power Of The Holy Spirit, And Was Born Of The Virgin Mary

“HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY”

https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_two/artcile_3.html

Paragraph 1. THE SON OF GOD BECAME MAN

I. WHY DID THE WORD BECOME FLESH?

456 With the Nicene Creed, we answer by confessing: “For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit, he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.”

457 The Word became flesh for us in order to save us by reconciling us with God, who “loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins”: “the Father has sent his Son as the Saviour of the world”, and “he was revealed to take away sins”:⁷⁰

Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again. We had lost the possession of the good; it was necessary for it to be given back to us. Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Saviour; prisoners, help; slaves, a liberator. Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?⁷¹

458 The Word became flesh so that thus we might know God’s love: “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.”⁷² “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”⁷³

459 The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me.” “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.”⁷⁴ On the mountain of the Transfiguration, the Father commands: “Listen to him!”⁷⁵ Jesus is the model for the Beatitudes and the norm of the new law: “Love one another as I have loved you.”⁷⁶ This love implies an effective offering of oneself, after his example.⁷⁷

460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”:⁷⁸ “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.”⁷⁹ “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.”⁸⁰ “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”⁸¹

II. THE INCARNATION

461 Taking up St. John’s expression, “The Word became flesh”,⁸² The Church calls “Incarnation” the fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it. In a hymn cited by St. Paul, the Church sings the mystery of the Incarnation:

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. and being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.⁸³

462 The Letter to the Hebrews refers to the same mystery:

Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, Lo, I have come to do your will, O God.”⁸⁴

463 Belief in the true Incarnation of the Son of God is the distinctive sign of Christian faith: “By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God.”⁸⁵ Such is the joyous conviction of the Church from her beginning whenever she sings “the mystery of our religion”: “He was manifested in the flesh.”⁸⁶

III. TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN

464 The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man. During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against the heresies that falsified it.

465 The first heresies denied not so much Christ’s divinity as his true humanity (Gnostic Docetism). From apostolic times the Christian faith has insisted on the true incarnation of God’s Son “come in the flesh”.⁸⁷ But already in the third century, the Church in a council at Antioch had to affirm against Paul of Samosata that Jesus Christ is Son of God by nature and not by adoption. the first ecumenical council of Nicaea in 325 confessed in its Creed that the Son of God is “begotten, not made, of the same substance (homoousios) as the Father”, and condemned Arius, who had affirmed that the Son of God “came to be from things that were not” and that he was “from another substance” than that of the Father.⁸⁸

466 The Nestorian heresy regarded Christ as a human person joined to the divine person of God’s Son. Opposing this heresy, St. Cyril of Alexandria and the third ecumenical council, at Ephesus in 431, confessed “that the Word, uniting to himself in his person the flesh animated by a rational soul, became man.”⁸⁹ Christ’s humanity has no other subject than the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it and made it his own, from his conception. For this reason the Council of Ephesus proclaimed in 431 that Mary truly became the Mother of God by the human conception of the Son of God in her womb: “Mother of God, not that the nature of the Word or his divinity received the beginning of its existence from the holy Virgin, but that, since the holy body, animated by a rational soul, which the Word of God united to himself according to the hypostasis, was born from her, the Word is said to be born according to the flesh.”⁹⁰

467 The Monophysites affirmed that the human nature had ceased to exist as such in Christ when the divine person of God’s Son assumed it. Faced with this heresy, the fourth ecumenical council, at Chalcedon in 451, confessed: Following the holy Fathers, we unanimously teach and confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man, composed of rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and consubstantial with us as to his humanity; “like us in all things but sin”. He was begotten from the Father before all ages as to his divinity and in these last days, for us and for our salvation, was born as to his humanity of the virgin Mary, the Mother of God.⁹¹

We confess that one and the same Christ, Lord, and only-begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division or separation. the distinction between the natures was never abolished by their union, but rather the character proper to each of the two natures was preserved as they came together in one person (prosopon) and one hypostasis.⁹²

468 After the Council of Chalcedon, some made of Christ’s human nature a kind of personal subject. Against them, the fifth ecumenical council, at Constantinople in 553, confessed that “there is but one hypostasis [or person], which is our Lord Jesus Christ, one of the Trinity.”⁹³ Thus everything in Christ’s human nature is to be attributed to his divine person as its proper subject, not only his miracles but also his sufferings and even his death: “He who was crucified in the flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ, is true God, Lord of glory, and one of the Holy Trinity.”⁹⁴

469 The Church thus confesses that Jesus is inseparably true God and true man. He is truly the Son of God who, without ceasing to be God and Lord, became a man and our brother: “What he was, he remained and what he was not, he assumed”, sings the Roman Liturgy.⁹⁵ and the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom proclaims and sings: “O only-begotten Son and Word of God, immortal being, you who deigned for our salvation to become incarnate of the holy Mother of God and ever-virgin Mary, you who without change became man and were crucified, O Christ our God, you who by your death have crushed death, you who are one of the Holy Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit, save us!”⁹⁶

IV. HOW IS THE SON OF GOD MAN?

470 Because “human nature was assumed, not absorbed”,⁹⁷ in the mysterious union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of centuries to confess the full reality of Christ’s human soul, with its operations of intellect and will, and of his human body. In parallel fashion, she had to recall on each occasion that Christ’s human nature belongs, as his own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it. Everything that Christ is and does in this nature derives from “one of the Trinity”.

The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal mode of existence in the Trinity. In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity:⁹⁸

The Son of God. . . worked with human hands; he thought with a human mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except sin.⁹⁹

Christ’s soul and his human knowledge

471 Apollinarius of Laodicaea asserted that in Christ the divine Word had replaced the soul or spirit. Against this error the Church confessed that the eternal Son also assumed a rational, human soul.¹⁰⁰

472 This human soul that the Son of God assumed is endowed with a true human knowledge. As such, this knowledge could not in itself be unlimited: it was exercised in the historical conditions of his existence in space and time. This is why the Son of God could, when he became man, “increase in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man”,¹⁰¹ and would even have to inquire for himself about what one in the human condition can learn only from experience.¹⁰² This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of himself, taking “the form of a slave”.¹⁰³

473 But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God’s Son expressed the divine life of his person.¹⁰⁴ “The human nature of God’s Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God.”¹⁰⁵ Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father.¹⁰⁶ The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts.¹⁰⁷

474 By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal.¹⁰⁸ What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal.¹⁰⁹

Christ’s human will

475 Similarly, at the sixth ecumenical council, Constantinople III in 681, the Church confessed that Christ possesses two wills and two natural operations, divine and human. They are not opposed to each other, but co-operate in such a way that the Word made flesh willed humanly in obedience to his Father all that he had decided divinely with the Father and the Holy Spirit for our salvation.¹¹⁰ Christ’s human will “does not resist or oppose but rather submits to his divine and almighty will.”¹¹¹

Christ’s true body

476 Since the Word became flesh in assuming a true humanity, Christ’s body was finite.¹¹² Therefore the human face of Jesus can be portrayed; at the seventh ecumenical council (Nicaea II in 787) the Church recognized its representation in holy images to be legitimate.¹¹³

477 At the same time the Church has always acknowledged that in the body of Jesus “we see our God made visible and so are caught up in love of the God we cannot see.”¹¹⁴ The individual characteristics of Christ’s body express the divine person of God’s Son. He has made the features of his human body his own, to the point that they can be venerated when portrayed in a holy image, for the believer “who venerates the icon is venerating in it the person of the one depicted”.¹¹⁵

The heart of the Incarnate Word

478 Jesus knew and loved us each and all during his life, his agony and his Passion, and gave himself up for each one of us: “The Son of God. . . loved me and gave himself for me.”¹¹⁶ He has loved us all with a human heart. For this reason, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced by our sins and for our salvation,¹¹⁷ “is quite rightly considered the chief sign and symbol of that. . . love with which the divine Redeemer continually loves the eternal Father and all human beings” without exception.¹¹⁸

IN BRIEF

479 At the time appointed by God, the only Son of the Father, the eternal Word, that is, the Word and substantial Image of the Father, became incarnate; without losing his divine nature he has assumed human nature.

480 Jesus Christ is true God and true man, in the unity of his divine person; for this reason he is the one and only mediator between God and men.

481 Jesus Christ possesses two natures, one divine and the other human, not confused, but united in the one person of God’s Son.

482 Christ, being true God and true man, has a human intellect and will, perfectly attuned and subject to his divine intellect and divine will, which he has in common with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

483 The Incarnation is therefore the mystery of the wonderful union of the divine and human natures in the one person of the Word.

Incarnationis Mysterium – BULL OF INDICTION OF THE GREAT JUBILEE OF THE YEAR 2000

https://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/docs/documents/hf_jp-ii_doc_30111998_bolla-jubilee_en.html

JESUS CHRIST – TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN

You Too Are Christ: The Ongoing Incarnation, Then and Now

How the Incarnation Made Your World Possible

https://www.catholic.com/audio/caf/how-the-incarnation-made-your-world-possible

The Incarnation of God

https://www.catholic.com/audio/caf/the-incarnation-of-god

How the Incarnation Reveals God’s Love

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/how-the-incarnation-reveals-gods-love

How Exactly Did Jesus Take on a Body?

https://www.catholic.com/video/how-exactly-did-jesus-take-on-a-body

If God Became Man, Didn’t God Change?

And if God can’t change, then isn’t all of Christianity refuted?

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/did-the-incarnation-cause-god-to-change

The Incarnation: A Revolution for the Ancient World

God made man was the epicenter of a transformative explosion, spawning new revolutions of thought and practice

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-incarnation-a-revolution-for-the-ancient-world

January 15, 2026
THE VIRGIN MARY
Why Catholics Call Mary Their Mother

MOTHER MARY, SAINTS, WORSHIP? – FR. MIKE SMITH – ASCENSION PRESENTS

We have a mother!!! I have a mother!!! We all have a loving mother!!! The Most Holy Blessed Virgin Mary is a Mother to us all!!! Jesus Himself gave Her to us as a Mother.

I didn’t know!!! I didn’t know until January 2022 when I realized, listening to father Schmidt, that when Jesus died on the cross and he told Saint John: “This is your mother” and he told Mary: “Woman, this is your son”, he was giving his mother to all of us, to all mankind!!! And me little orphan like girl coming from where I come from, from the heartache of the childhood that I went through – that I explained in my biography (SEE “ABOUT” SECTION), I have yearned my entire life to be loved by a mother and now I do I have a mother: Mother Mary, the Virgin Mary!!! She is here for all of us!!!

God has resolved the impossible existential conundrum of the orphans: God is the Father of all of us, all of us whatever the circumstances, orphans with living parents who ignore us, who do not know how to love us, who hated us, who abused us, who hurt us, who harmed us, voluntarily or unvoluntarily, knowingly or unknowingly, for whatever the reason, or people who had parents who died, or who never knew their parents, or were given up for adoption, or were simply abandonned, all of us, at some point in lige whatever our background, we need loving parents. So God has resolved this issue: He is our Father, we do have a father Papa the Father that we pray in Our Father prayer “Our Father who art in the heavens”, “Abba Father”, we have a Father, all of us without distinction, we have a Father who loves us and who is waiting for us to be part of his loving family and who wants to adopt us by the adoption of the Catholic baptism. By the Catholic holy Sacrament of baptism we become children of God, Sons and Daughters of God the Father Almighty by adoption in Jesus Christ and we have a mother. We have a mother!!! God has sent us the holy Virgin Mary as a mother to every single human on the planet: there is no longer a human that is without a mother: we have a mother; her name is Mary. Her name, her very name comes from “Amor”, “Amour”, “Love”, She is love itself. She came to adopt us as her children.

HERE MY FAVORITE EXPLANATION OF THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME “MARY, MARIA”:

“In 1906 Zorrell advanced another explanation of the name Mary, based on its derivation from the Egyptian mer or mar, to love, and the Hebrew Divine name Yarn or Yahweh (Zeitschrift fur katholische Theologie, 1906, pp. 356 sqq.). Thus explained the name denotes “one loving Yahweh” or “one beloved by Yahweh”.”

Enciclopedia: “Mary, The Blessed Virgin” (External link)

We have a mother!!! We have a loving mother!!!

Did Mary Have Other Children?

https://www.catholic.com/audio/caf/did-mary-have-other-children

The Psalm that Disproves Mary’s Perpetual Virginity?

Does Psalm 69 prove that Mary had sons in addition to Jesus?

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/did-mary-have-other-sons

Does the use of this Greek word for sibling indicate that Jesus had brothers?

https://www.catholic.com/qa/does-the-use-of-this-greek-word-for-sibling-indicate-that-jesus-had-brothers

Was Mary a Perpetual Virgin?

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/was-mary-a-perpetual-virgin

The Immaculate Conception: How to Answer all Questions – Explaining the Faith

Answering Objections to Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

https://www.catholic.com/audio/cot/answering-objections-to-marys-perpetual-virginity

The Case for Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-case-for-marys-perpetual-virginity

Using Proof Texts Is Okay: Mary’s Virginity and the Jesus only child issues

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/using-proof-texts-is-okay

“Brethren of the Lord”

https://www.catholic.com/tract/brethren-of-the-lord

Can It Be Proven Mary Had No Other Children?

https://www.catholic.com/qa/can-it-proven-mary-had-no-other-children

What the Early Church Believed: The Perpetual Virginity of Mary

https://www.catholic.com/tract/mary-ever-virgin

Was Mary a Perpetual Virgin?

https://www.catholic.com/audio/sp/was-mary-a-perpetual-virgin

Mary, Mother of God

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/mary-mother-of-god

Was St. Joseph a virgin or a widower with children?

https://www.catholic.com/qa/was-st-joseph-a-virgin-or-a-widower-with-children

“Was Jesus an Only Child?” Part I

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/was-jesus-an-only-child-0

“Was Jesus an Only Child?” Part II

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/was-jesus-an-only-child

Proof of Mary’s Perpetual Virginity in John 19

Jesus entrusted his mother to John’s care from the cross because she had no other children

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/proof-of-marys-perpetual-virginity-in-john-19

Our Lady the Immaculate Conception

How to Explain the Perpetual Virginity of Mary

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/how-to-explain-the-perpetual-virginity-of-mary

Mary, Mother of Salvation

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/mary-mother-of-salvation

The Bible Says Mary Is the Mother of God

https://www.catholic.com/video/the-bible-says-mary-is-the-mother-of-god

Mary, Mother of God

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/mary-mother-of-god

Mary the “Mediatrix of All Graces”

https://www.catholic.com/qa/isnt-calling-mary-the-mediatrix-of-all-graces-contrary-to-the-doctrine-that-jesus-is-the-sole

Mary is Essential to Christian Worship (Biblical Evidence)

https://www.catholic.com/video/cb378pb

Is Mary the Mother of All?

https://www.catholic.com/qa/is-mary-the-mother-of-all

Fr. Donald Calloway: “The Virgin Mary: The Masterpiece of God”

DEBATE: Do the Marian Dogmas Contradict Scripture?

https://www.catholic.com/audio/cot/debate-do-the-marian-dogmas-contradict-scripture-with-steve-christie

Mary’s 10 Virtues in the Bible: You Will Get to Heaven!

Explaining the Faith w/Fr. Chris Alar

From a homily In Praise of the Virgin Mother by Saint Bernard, abbot

(Hom. 4:8-9; Opera omnia, Edit Cisterc 4. [1966], 53-54)

The whole world awaits Mary’s reply

You have heard, O Virgin, that you will conceive and bear a son; you have heard that it will not be by man but by the Holy Spirit. The angel awaits an answer; it is time for him to return to God who sent him. We too are waiting, O Lady, for your word of compassion; the sentence of condemnation weighs heavily upon us.

The price of our salvation is offered to you. We shall be set free at once if you consent. In the eternal Word of God we all came to be, and behold, we die. In your brief response we are to be remade in order to be recalled to life.

Tearful Adam with his sorrowing family begs this of you, O loving Virgin, in their exile from Paradise. Abraham begs it, David begs it. All the other holy patriarchs, your ancestors, ask it of you, as they dwell in the country of the shadow of death. This is what the whole earth waits for, prostrate at your feet. It is right in doing so, for on your word depends comfort for the wretched, ransom for the captive, freedom for the condemned, indeed, salvation for all the sons of Adam, the whole of your race.

Answer quickly, O Virgin. Reply in haste to the angel, or rather through the angel to the Lord. Answer with a word, receive the Word of God. Speak your own word, conceive the divine Word. Breathe a passing word, embrace the eternal Word.

Why do you delay, why are you afraid? Believe, give praise, and receive. Let humility be bold, let modesty be confident. This is no time for virginal simplicity to forget prudence. In this matter alone, O prudent Virgin, do not fear to be presumptuous.

Though modest silence is pleasing, dutiful speech is now more necessary. Open your heart to faith, O blessed Virgin, your lips to praise, your womb to the Creator. See, the desired of all nations is at your door, knocking to enter. If he should pass by because of your delay, in sorrow you would begin to seek him afresh, the One whom your soul loves. Arise, hasten, open. Arise in faith, hasten in devotion, open in praise and thanksgiving. Behold the handmaid of the Lord, she says, be it done to me according to your word.

Office of Readings Dec 20

LA VIRGEN MARIA

Una mujer capaz de ver distinto
Donde todos hubiesen visto una locura,
María vio un horizonte. Donde muchos
hubiesen visto una trasgresión, ella intuyó
la promesa de Dios. Donde tantos se
hubiesen estremecido ante la perspectiva
y hubiesen exigido más pruebas, más
seguridades o más garantías, ella
exclamó: «Hágase». Donde la ley era la
referencia y la condena, ella fue capaz de
cantar la grandeza del Dios que está con
los más pequeños y da la vuelta a todos
los órdenes establecidos. Donde todo era
convencional, María, con una acogida
hecha al tiempo de ignorancia y valentía,
de confianza y entrega, fue capaz de
colaborar con Dios de un modo radical.
(Pastoral sj)

September 8^th Celebration: The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary

From The Catholic News Agency

The Catholic Church celebrates today the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on its traditional fixed date of September 8, nine months after the December 8 celebration of her Immaculate Conception as the child of Saints Joachim and Anne.

The circumstances of the Virgin Mary’s infancy and early life are not directly recorded in the Bible, but other documents and traditions describing the circumstances of her birth are cited by some of the earliest Christian writers from the first centuries of the Church.

These accounts, although not considered authoritative in the same manner as the Bible, outline some of the Church’s traditional beliefs about the birth of Mary.

The “Protoevangelium of James,” which was probably put into its final written form in the early second century, describes Mary’s father Joachim as a wealthy member of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Joachim was deeply grieved, along with his wife Anne, by their childlessness. “He called to mind Abraham,” the early Christian writing says, “that in the last day God gave him a son Isaac.”

Joachim and Anne began to devote themselves extensively and rigorously to prayer and fasting, initially wondering whether their inability to conceive a child might signify God’s displeasure with them.

As it turned out, however, the couple were to be blessed even more abundantly than Abraham and Sarah, as an angel revealed to Anne when he appeared to her and prophesied that all generations would honor their future child: “The Lord has heard your prayer, and you shall conceive, and shall bring forth, and your seed shall be spoken of in all the world.”

After Mary’s birth, according to the Protoevangelium of James, Anne “made a sanctuary” in the infant girl’s room, and “allowed nothing common or unclean” on account of the special holiness of the child. The same writing records that when she was one year old, her father “made a great feast, and invited the priests, and the scribes, and the elders, and all the people of Israel.”

“And Joachim brought the child to the priests,” the account continues, “and they blessed her, saying: ‘O God of our fathers, bless this child, and give her an everlasting name to be named in all generations’ . . . And he brought her to the chief priests, and they blessed her, saying: ‘O God most high, look upon this child, and bless her with the utmost blessing, which shall be for ever.’”

The protoevangelium goes on to describe how Mary’s parents, along with the temple priests, subsequently decided that she would be offered to God as a consecrated Virgin for the rest of her life, and enter a chaste marriage with the carpenter Joseph.

Saint Augustine described the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary as an event of cosmic and historic significance, and an appropriate prelude to the birth of Jesus Christ. “She is the flower of the field from whom bloomed the precious lily of the valley,” he said.

The fourth-century bishop, whose theology profoundly shaped the Western Church’s understanding of sin and human nature, affirmed that “through her birth, the nature inherited from our first parents is changed.”

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/the-birth-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-357

The Blessed Virgin Mary (Aquinas 101)

Regarding Rev 12. How do I respond to a JW that the woman in Rev 12 is not Mary but the Kingdom God? How do we properly interpret it?

Minute 13:31

https://www.catholic.com/audio/cal/tbd-238

¿Murió la Virgen María?

https://www.es.catholic.net/op/articulos/8704/cat/119/murio-la-virgen-maria.html

Tomb of the Blessed Virgin Mary

https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/tomb-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary

Can We Argue that the Virgin Mary Never Died?

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/can-we-argue-that-the-virgin-mary-never-died

Did Mary Die?

https://www.catholic.com/qa/did-mary-die

How did Mary, the mother of Jesus, die?

https://hayaperegrinaciones.com/en/How-did-Mary%2C-the-mother-of-Jesus%2C-die%3F/

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solemnity_of_Mary,_Mother_of_God

The Woman of Revelation 12

Catholic Answers Magazine
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-woman-of-revelation-12

The Case for Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

Catholic Answers Magazine
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-case-for-marys-perpetual-virginity

THE VIRGEN MARY IS THE NEW LIGHT BEARER AND LUCIFER DOES NOT LIKE IT

SAINT LOUIS MARIA GRIGNON DE MONTFORT – THE VIRGEN MARY IS THE WAY TO JESUS WHO IS THE WAY TO GOD THE FATHER

MARY LEADS TO JESUS

DIVINIZACION DE LOS HOMBRES – MADRE TRINIDAD DE LA SANTA IGLESIA

OBRA DE LA IGLESIA

SAINT LOUIS MARIA GRIGNON DE MONTFORT – María es la Reina de los Corazones

37. De lo que acabamos de decir, se debe evidentemente concluir:
En primer lugar, que María recibió de Dios un gran dominio en
las almas de los elegidos, pues Ella no puede hacer en ellos su resi-
dencia como Dios Padre le ha ordenado, formarlos, nutrirlos y engen-
drarlos a la vida eterna como madre suya, tenerlos por herencia y por-
ción suya, formarlos en Jesucristo y a Jesucristo en ellos, dejar en su
corazón las raíces de sus virtudes, y ser la compañera indisoluble del
Espíritu Santo para todas estas obras de gracia. Me parece que Ella
no podría hacer todas estas cosas, sino teniendo el derecho y dominio
sobre sus almas por una singular gracia del Altísimo, que habiéndole
dado potestad sobre su Unigénito, se la ha dado también sobre sus
hijos adoptivos, no sólo en cuanto al cuerpo, lo cual sería poco, sino
también en cuanto al alma.

38. María es la Reina del cielo y de la tierra por obra de la gracia,
como Jesucristo es Rey por naturaleza y derecho de conquista: aho-
ra bien, como el reinado de Jesucristo consiste principalmente en el
corazón o en el interior del hombre, según estas palabras: “El reino de
Dios está dentro de vosotros” (Lc. 17, 21), de igual manera, el reinado
de la Santísima Virgen es principalmente en el interior del hombre,
o sea en su alma, y es principalmente en las almas donde Ella es más
glorificada con su Hijo que en todas las criaturas visibles, de donde
nosotros podemos llamarla como los santos Reina de los Corazones.

Solamente a María entregó Dios las llaves de las bodegas
(Cant. 2, 4) del divino amor, y el poder de entrar en las vías más subli-
mes y secretas de la perfección, y allí hacer entrar a los otros. María
solamente es quien da la entrada en el Paraíso celeste a los miserables
hijos de Eva, la infiel, para allí pasearse agradablemente con Dios,
para ocultarse con seguridad de sus enemigos, para allí alimentarse
deliciosamente y sin temer la muerte, del fruto de los árboles de la
vida y de la ciencia del bien y del mal, y poder beber a grandes tragos
de las aguas celestiales de esta bella fuente que allí brota con abun-
dancia; o mejor aún, como Ella misma es este paraíso terrestre, o
esta tierra virgen y bendita de la que Adán y Eva pecadores fueron
expulsados, no permite la entrada en sí misma más que a aquellos y a
aquellas que son de su agrado, para hacerles santos.

SAINT LOUIS MARIA GRIGNON DE MONTFORT – Las virtudes de la Virgen María

Las virtudes de la Santísima Virgen en particular, la humildad profunda, la fe viva, la ciega obediencia, la continua oración, su universal mortificación, la pureza incomparable, la caridad ardiente, la heroica paciencia, la dulzura angelical y la divina sabiduría. Tales son las diez principales virtudes de la Santísima Virgen.

SAINT LOUIS MARIA GRIGNON DE MONTFORT – La Virgen María es el nuevo paraíso

Hacerlo todo en María
261. 3– Se debe hacer todo en María. Para comprender bien esta práctica, es necesario saber que la Santísima Virgen es el verdadero paraíso terrenal del nuevo Adán, y que el antiguo paraíso terrenal no era sino una figura de este otro. Hay, pues, en este paraíso terrenal, riquezas, bellezas, rarezas y dulzuras inexplicables, que el nuevo Adán, Jesucristo, ha dejado allí. Es en este paraíso donde Él ha tenido sus complacencias durante nueve meses, donde Él ha obrado sus maravillas, y en donde ha ostentado sus riquezas con la magnificencia de un Dios. Este santísimo lugar no está compuesto sino de tierra virgen e inmaculada, en la cual ha sido formado y alimentado el nuevo Adán, sin mancha ninguna ni inmundicia, por obra del Espíritu Santo que allí habita. Es en este paraíso terrenal donde verdaderamente se encuentra el árbol de la vida, que ha producido a Jesucristo; el árbol de la ciencia del bien y del mal, que ha dado la luz al mundo. Hay en este divino lugar árboles plantados por la mano de Dios, y regados por su divina unción, que han producido y producen todos los días frutos dignos de un paladar divino: hay jardines esmaltados de bellas y diferentes flores de virtudes que exhalan aromas tales que embelesan a los propios ángeles. Hay en este lugar prados verdes de esperanza, torres inexpugnables de fortaleza, encantadoras mansiones de confianza, etc. Nadie más que el Espíritu Santo para poder hacer conocer la verdad oculta bajo estas figuras de cosas materiales. Hay en este lugar un aire de pureza sin imperfección; un hermoso día que no conoce noche, de la humanidad santa; un sol radiante, sin sombras, de la Divinidad; un horno ardiente y continuo de caridad, en donde todo el hierro que allí es puesto es abrasado en fuego y transformado en oro; hay un río de humildad que brota de la tierra, y que dividiéndose en cuatro brazos, que son las cuatro virtudes cardinales, irriga todo este lugar encantado.

262. El Espíritu Santo, por la boca de los Santos Padres, llama también a la Santísima Virgen: 1.– La puerta oriental, por donde el sumo Sacerdote, Jesucristo, entra y sale en el mundo (Ver Ez 44, 1-3); por medio de Ella entró allí la primera vez, y por Ella vendrá la segunda; 2.– El santuario de la Divinidad, el reposo de la Santísima Trinidad, el trono de Dios, la ciudad de Dios, el altar de Dios, el templo de Dios, el mundo de Dios. Todos estos diferentes epítetos y alabanzas son muy verdaderos, en relación a las diferentes maravillas y gracias que el Altísimo ha hecho en María. ¡Oh, qué riquezas! ¡Oh, qué gloria! ¡Oh, qué placer! ¡Oh, qué felicidad de poder entrar y morar en María, donde el Altísimo ha puesto el trono de su gloria suprema!

263. Pero, ¡cuán difícil es a pecadores como nosotros conseguir el permiso, y la capacidad, y la luz para entrar en un lugar tan alto y tan santo, que es custodiado no por un querubín, como el antiguo paraíso terrenal (Gen 3, 24), sino por el mismo Espíritu Santo, que se ha hecho dueño absoluto de él, y del cual dice: “Hortus conclusus soror mea sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus”. María está cerrada; María está sellada; mis miserables hijos de Adán y de Eva expulsados del paraíso terrenal, no pueden entrar en éste sino por una gracia toda particular del Espíritu Santo, que deben merecer.

MARY “THE NEW EVE”

The New Adam Rebukes the New Eve

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-new-adam-rebukes-the-new-eve

MARIA ES LA “MUJER” O “EVA”

Juan 2, 1-11. Este fue el primero de los signos que Jesús realizó en Caná de Galilea.

Jesús Higueras – Palabra de Vida: http://smcana.es/palabra-de-vida/

La Virgen – Destructora de todas las herejías

https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/espadadedoblefilo.php/1608301128-title

JOHN BOSCO’S VISIONS OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS, “AUXILIORUM CHRISTIANORUM”

The Blessed Virgin Mary obeyed with her mind and will, body and intellect

Origen de la devoción del primer sábado del mes

La devoción de los Primeros Sábados de mes

Fue precisamente Nuestra Señora quien, a través del Mensaje de Fátima, anunció que vendría a pedir la Comunión reparadora de los primeros sábados de mes, por ser el sábado el día en que tradicionalmente se honraba a la Santísima Virgen desde siglos atrás. Hubo que esperar al día 10 de diciembre de 1925, para que se cumpliera aquel anuncio, teniendo ello lugar en el monasterio de Santa Dorotea, en Tuy (Pontevedra), donde se encontraba Sor Lucía, quien junto a sus primos Francisco y Jacinta, había tenido la dicha de ser testigo de las visiones marianas en Fátima. Fue así como la Santísima Virgen le pidió la institución de la devoción de los cinco Primeros Sábados de mes como modo de reparar las ofensas contra su Inmaculado Corazón.

¿En que consiste esta devoción?

Atendiendo el pedido de Nuestra Señora, sus fieles devotos podemos consolarla cumpliendo durante cinco primeros sábados de mes consecutivos los siguientes requisitos:
- Confesión.
- Asistir a la Santa Misa, recibiendo la Sagrada Comunión con intención de reparar las ofensas contra el Inmaculado Corazón de María.
- Rezo del Santo Rosario.
- Meditar al menos uno de los Misterios del Santo Rosario durante quince minutos.
¿Por qué cinco sábados?

Ello obedece a los cinco tipos de blasfemias con las que se ofende a Nuestra Señora, y que Ella misma reveló a Sor Lucía:
1. Blasfemias contra su Inmaculado Corazón.
2. Blasfemias contra su virginidad.
3. Blasfemias contra Ella en cuanto Madre de Dios y Madre de toda la humanidad.
4. Blasfemias de aquellos que públicamente infunden en los niños la indiferencia, el desprecio e incluso el odio a la Santísima Virgen.
5. Blasfemias de quienes ultrajan sus sagradas imágenes.
La devoción de los cinco primeros sábados de mes

https://es.aleteia.org/2025/01/09/la-devocion-de-los-cinco-primeros-sabados-de-mes

La Comunión Reparadora de los Primeros Sábados de mes

Aparición de Nuestro Señor y de la Santísima Virgen a Sor Lucia en Pontevedra

1. – ¿Cuándo? El 10 de diciembre de 1925.
– ¿Cómo? Por una aparición de Nuestro Señor y de la Santísima Virgen que me mostró su Inmaculado Corazón cercado de espinas y pidiendo reparación.
– ¿Dónde? En Pontevedra (Pasaje Isabel II). La primera aparición (tuvo lugar) en mi cuarto, la segunda cerca del portal del jardín donde estaba trabajando.

2. ¿Las condiciones requeridas?
Durante cinco meses, el primer sábado, recibir la Santa Comunión, rezar el rosario, hacer compañía quince minutos a Nuestra Señora meditando los misterios del rosario, y confesarse con la misma intención. La confesión puede hacerse otro día, siempre que uno esté en estado de gracia al recibir la Santa Comunión.

3. Beneficios o promesas.
«A las almas que busquen desagraviarme de esta manera (dijo Nuestra Señora), les prometo asistirlas a la hora de la muerte con todas las gracias necesarias para su salvación.”

4. ¿Por qué cinco sábados y no nueve, o siete en honor de los dolores de Nuestra Señora?
“Encontrándome en la capilla con Nuestro Señor cierto momento de la noche del 29 al 30 del mes de mayo de 1930, y hablando a Nuestro Señor de las preguntas cuatro y cinco, me sentí de repente poseída íntimamente por la divina presencia y, si no me equivoco, esto es lo que me fue revelado:

«Hija mía, el motivo es simple. Hay cinco especies de ofensas y blasfemias proferidas contra el Inmaculado Corazón de María:
– las blasfemias contra la Inmaculada Concepción.
– las blasfemias contra su virginidad.
– las blasfemias contra su maternidad divina, negando al mismo tiempo reconocerla como Madre de los hombres.
– las blasfemias de aquellos que buscan públicamente sembrar en el corazón de los niños la indiferencia o el desprecio, o incluso el odio respecto a esta Madre Inmaculada.
– las ofensas de aquellos que la ultrajan directamente en sus santas imágenes.

Este es, hija mía, el motivo por el cual el Inmaculado Corazón de María me ha inspirado a pedir esta pequeña reparación, y, en consideración de la misma, a conmover Mi misericordia para perdonar a las almas que tuvieron la desgracia de ofenderla. En cuanto a ti, busca sin cesar, por tus oraciones y tus sacrificios, conmover Mi misericordia respecto a esas pobres almas».

5. ¿Aquellos que no pudieran cumplir estas condiciones el sábado, pueden satisfacerlas el domingo?
«La práctica de esta devoción será igualmente aceptada el domingo siguiente al primer sábado, cuando mis sacerdotes, por justos motivos, lo permitan a las almas».

https://nscristiandad.com/la-comunion-reparadora-de-los-primeros-sabados-de-mes

Burke y Sarah llaman a renovar la práctica de los Primeros Sábados – Se cumple el centenario de esta devoción

https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=53255

Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi explains: Mater Populi Fidelis || Mary’s Role in the Economy of Salvation

QUEEN OF HEAVEN

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