Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 80 - Part VI.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) God willed that Jesus Christ should have a true human mother
but only God himself as his Father, because he wanted to make a new beginning
that could be credited to him alone and not to earthly forces.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 493)
The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God "the
All-Holy" (Panagia), and
celebrate her as "free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the
Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature" (LG 56). By the grace of God
Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Mary’s
virginity is not some outdated mythological notion but rather fundamental to
the life of Jesus. He was born of a woman but had no human father. Jesus Christ
is a new beginning in the world that has been instituted from on high. In the
Gospel of Luke, Mary asks the angel, “How can this be, since I have no
husband?” ( do not sleep with a man, Lk 1:34); the angel answered, “The Holy
Spirit will come upon you” (Lk 1:35). Although the Church from the earliest
days was mocked on account of her belief in Mary’s virginity, she has always
believed that her virginity is real and not merely symbolic.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 496)
From the first formulations of her faith, the Church has confessed that Jesus
was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin
Mary, affirming also the corporeal aspect of this event: Jesus was conceived
"by the Holy Spirit without human seed" (Council of the Lateran
(649): DS 503; cf. DS 10-64). The Fathers see in the virginal conception the
sign that it truly was the Son of God who came in a humanity like our own. Thus
St. Ignatius of Antioch at the beginning of the second century says: You are
firmly convinced about our Lord, who is truly of the race of David according to
the flesh, Son of God according to the will and power of God, truly born of a
virgin,… he was truly nailed to a tree for us in his flesh under Pontius
Pilate… he truly suffered, as he is also truly risen (St. Ignatius of Antioch,
ad Smyrn. 1-2: Apostolic Fathers, ed.
J. B. Lightfoot (London: Macmillan, 1889), II/2, 289-293; SCh 10, 154-156; cf.
Rom 1:3; Jn 1:13).
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