report on mariology

1. DIVINELYGIVEN“INTOOUR
REALITYMARY’S
MATERNALMEDIATION
ACCORDINGTOPOPE
BENEDICTXVI
KEVIN M. CLARKE

2. mariological teaching of the
increasingly Marian Pope
Benedict, so Benedict see’s
Mary as the perfect believer
imbued by God’s word – who
prepares a place for God in
our humanity by answering
“YES” to the Incarnation. So
Benedict the XVI assert to
have an ecumenical dialogue
in order to heal the wounds of
divisions.

3. Who is Benedict XVI?
Pope Benedict XVI is a retired prelate of the
Catholic church who served as the head of the
church and the sovereign of the Vatican City
State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013.
Benedict's election as pope occurred in the
2005 papal conclave that followed the death of
Pope John Paul II.
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
16 April 1927 (age 95)
Marktl, Bavaria, Weimar Republic
Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, Vatican City

4. Pope Benedict wrote three
encyclicals on spiritual, social and
economic issues during his
papacy and was working on a
fourth when he decided to
become the first pope in some six
centuries to step down instead of
reigning for life.
1. “Deus Caritas Est” (God is
Love, 2006)
2. “Spe Salvi” (In hope we were
saved, 2007)
3. “Caritas in Veritate” (Love in
Truth, 2009

5. Dr. Kevin Clarke is the Dean of the Institute for
Lay Ministry and Associate Professor at Sacred
Heart Major Seminary. His research, which
intersects with various theological and
exegetical themes, has primarily focused upon
Biblical interpretation in early Christianity,
especially the Church Fathers’ spiritual
exegesis of the Old Testament and readings
that harmonize both Old and New, more
specifically St. Maximus the Confessor and his
interpretation of Scripture in the 7th century

6. Mary and the
Church
• Mariology in the heart of the
Church… Without Mariology,
The church is in Danger.
• He pointed out that the Vatican
II council had declared Mary a
figure, image and model of the
Church.

7. An instrument for a program of
socio- political action. In Mary, as
a figure and archetype, the church
once again finds her own visage
as mother and cannot degenerate
into the complexity of a party and
organization or a pressure group
in the service of human interest,
even the noblest. If Mary no
longer finds a place in many
theologies and ecclesiologies the
reason is obvious: they have
reduce the faith to an abstraction.
And an abstraction does not need
mother.

8. TheSchoolofMary
When Mary in her maternal
affection for the married couple
presents the news to the Lord
that they have run out of wine,
she hands the matter over to
Jesus to let him decide what to
do about it: “Mary leaves
everything to the Lord’s
Judgement.”

9. At the annunciation, “ she
considered in her mind” the angel
greeting. According to the Greek,
the word for consider here
derives from the Greek word
διάλογοι, dialogues.

10. MaryandScripture
Mary “lived on the word of God” (cf. Mt
4:4 )
Mary is completely imbued with the
word of God, she is able to become the
mother of the word incarnate. Mary,
also, in keeping in her heart the events
of salvation concerning the life of her
Son does more than simply retaining in
her memory the events of her life.
To KNOW, LOVE, LIVE, and most
especially to THINK the word of GOD.

11. Fiat
Κεχαριτωμένη – “Full of grace”
a named given by God and
uttered by the angels.
Mary in her divine maternity
does something unique in the
history of the humanity.

12. Magnificat
… which is like a “Portrait” of
Mary’s soul… she shows us how
alive she is in the scripture.
…. Is entirely woven from treads
of Holy scripture.
She speaks and thinks with the
word of God the word of God
becomes her word, and her word
issues from the word of God

13. …
…. These threads of old
testament Scripture in the
magnificant help show us
something about the person of
Mary.

14. Cana
… is the location of the Marriage at
Cana, at which the miracle of
turning water into wine took place
in the Gospel of John.
“O woman, what have you to do
with me? My Hour has net yet
come” (Jn 2:4) Why does he not call
her “Mother”?
Mary, represents of the redeemer, it
points forward to the cross, where
this “woman” will be made mother
in a new way.

15. MarianMediation
“Mediationofthe
Eucharist”
… the fiat of Mary and the fiat of Christ
– to the message of the angel at the
annunciation and to God the Father’s
plan for redemption In the incarnation.
Through Mary, Christ comes to his
creature in a “sacramental” way…
Sacramentum Caritatis.
… who said that by uniting herself
completely to the sacrificial gift of her
son to the eternal Father on Calvary,
“Mary inaugurates the church
participation in the sacrifice of the
redeemer.”

16. … Mary is found a unique
privilege and especial
preeminence in the
sacramental economy…
turning to Christ in the
Eucharist is turning to Mary,
Because a woman of the
Eucharist who helps us to fall in
love with Jesus in the Eucharist.

17. MediationofGrace
Mary’s mediation of grace
unique is the maternal
dimension of her mediation –
through her Christ is “born ever
anew” into the world, a
feminine dimension of the
event of salvation.
… “Mediatrix of all grace…”
implicit rejection… but Pope
benedict clarify certain things
using the precise title.

18. Mary, Mother of God and our
Mother, stands particularly close to
us at this moment…
The Virgin most pure, who
conceived in her womb the
redeemer of mankind and was
preserved from all stain of original
sin, wishes to be the definitive seal
of our encounter with God our
Savior.
“There is no Fruit of Grace in the
history of Salvation that does not
have as its necessary instrument
the mediation of our Lady"

19. Mary’sMediationinthe
WorkofRedemption
Mary… Standing at the foot of the
cross in Silence and solidarity..
“Image of Mourning that brings
Salvation… by suffering with one
condemned (by their compassion
in the etymological sense) they
place themselves on his side and
by their loving with they are on
the side of God, who is love.”

20. Mary is a model of total self-
abandonment to God’s will:
she received in her heart the
eternal word and conceived it
in her virginal womb; she trust
in God and, with her soul
pierced by a sword, (Lk 2:35)
she did not hesitate to share
the passion of her son,
renewing on calvary at the foot
of the Cross her “yes” of the
annunciation.

21. TheMother’sMediation
ofanImageofGodthe
Father
Christ is the “image (εἰκών) of
the invisible God” He who sees
Jesus “has seen the Father”
and while is Jesus is the
perfect image of Father.
Mary participates in a
subordinate way in his perfect
revelation of the Father

22. … The church at the source…
In the image of peita, which has
become dear Christian piety,
.. In the compassionate Mother,
sufferers of all ages have found
the purest reflection of the divine
compassion that is only true
consolation…

23. Imapassibilis est deus, sed non
incompassibilis
- God Cannot suffer, but he
can suffer with
… how the image of the Pieta in the
Christian World became vividly…
Semitic understanding of rahamin.
Cradles the body of her lifeless Son,..
God’s Maternal affliction is open to
view

24. Maryandthesuffering
Church
With her son,... “mysteriously”
united with Christ, the one who
suffer with love, meek, self
abandonment to the will of God
becomes a living offering for
the salvation of the world.
Being in God who is close to
us, actually within all of us.

25. ….
The pope has courageously
…condemning the human
rights and religious- freedom
violations and the oppression
of the catholic church.
Pope has offered a woman,
“our Great Advocate and
Mother” who is particularly
close to those facing injustice.

26. … When you obediently said ”yes”
in the house of Nazareth, you
allowed God’s eternal Son o take
flesh in your virginal womb and
thus to begin in history the work
of our redemption you willingly
and generously cooperated in
that work, allowing the sword of
pain to pierce your soul, until
supreme hour of the cross, when
you kept watch on Calvary,
standing beside your, son who
died that we might live.

27. ….
He described the blessed Virgin
as the “Woman of Salvation” and
the “reflection of the Beauty that
saves the world” …
she was predestined from all
eternity to be the Mother of ther
redeemer and the Mother of all
redeemed and such she was the
first among the saved and
shared beforehand in the
salvation he wrought by his
passion.

28. “Intoourreality”-Mary
andherSpiritual
Maternityoverall
Humanity
…
“We have a mother in heaven.
And the Mother of God, the
Mother of the son of God, is our
Mother. He himself has said so he
made her our own Mother when
she said to the disciple and to all
of us: behold your Mother.”

29. The Maternity of Mary over all
believers is part of the “Good
news” of Calvary, a truly
personal gift from the cross
that abides in heaven to this
day .

30. OneFamily“Entrusted”
tooneMother
“Behold your Mother.” and so
he did as the beloved disciple
did: he took her into his own
home (eis ta idia: jn 19:27)-
Totus tuus. And from the
mother he learned to conform
himself to Christ.

31. Mary invites us to console in the
image of love and mercy wither
face turned constantly toward her
son. “in her maternal love, Mary
Continues to take under her
protection people all languages
and cultures, and to lead them
together, within a multiform
unity, to Christ.

32. ….
In Marian consecration, we
receive her into our own
reality and she likewise
receives us into her own.
“behold… behold becomes not
a mere historical detail, but a
request of the son that he be
allowed to share the mother he
so loved with all “” his own”
whom he loved “to the end”

33. ….
Mary for non catholic
Christians have a very
beautiful understanding of the
relationship that is implied in
the very nature of Christianity.
Christianity involves a relationship
with Christ, and of course with
the Father and the Holy Spirit as
well.

34. ….
Marian consecration is a way
of formally declaring relevant
to a person’s own life what is
already accomplished in the
words of the Savior- King- the
conferral of a new relationship
between the blessed Mother of
God and all humanity.

35. ….
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