{"id":39748,"date":"2021-09-28T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T08:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/?p=39748"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T10:32:51","slug":"holy-mary-mother-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/holy-mary-mother-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Mary Mother of God"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Holy Scripture affirms the divine maternity in an eloquent manner: \u201cBehold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call His name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the most High; and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of David His father; and He shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. And of His kingdom there shall be no end.\u201d (Lk. 1:31-33)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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St. Paul also said: \u201cBut when the fulness of the time was come, God sent His Son, made of a woman, made under the law.\u201d (Gal.4:4)<\/p>\n

A dogma of the faith<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Therefore, this is a dogma of our Catholic faith: the Holy Virgin Mary is the Mother of God. The dogma was formulated by Cyril of Alexandria in the first of The Anathemas of the Chapter of Cyril.<\/p>\n

The text was taken up by the Council of Ephesus in 431: \u201cIf anyone does not confess that God is truly Emmanuel, and that on this account the Holy Virgin is the Mother of God (for according to the flesh she gave birth to the Word of God become flesh by birth), let him be anathema [i.e., excommunicated],\u201d\u00a0Sources of Catholic Dogma<\/em>, Denzinger, no. 113, Lareto Publications.<\/p>\n

Some may ask how a creature can be called \u201cMother of God\u201d? But if this name seems to be extraordinary, it is absolutely true. It is useful to understand the profound reason that justifies this eternal title of glory of the Virgin.<\/p>\n

Human language can designate the same being differently according to its various aspects. Thus, we can say \u201cthis man is a theologian\u201d to say \u201cSt. Thomas Aquinas is a theologian,\u201d since St. Thomas is a man, today in Heaven.<\/p>\n

Now, the name \u201cGod\u201d can designate every divine person: the Father, or the Son, or the Holy Ghost, or the whole Trinity.<\/p>\n

This is why everything that is said of the Son can be said of God. To say \u201cthe Son incarnated,\u201d is to also say \u201cGod incarnated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, the holy Gospels speak of Jesus Christ as the \u201cSon of Mary.\u201d<\/p>\n

This maternity is the result of a truly natural generation: Our Lady really conceived and gave birth to Jesus; she really gave Him His human body. It is a very real relationship: Mary organized herself as a mother to her son.<\/p>\n

The dogma of the divine maternity destroys the Nestorian heresy<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Pope St. Pius X said of the Most Holy Virgin, in Pascendi\u00a0dominici gregis<\/em>, the encyclical against modernism, that she is \u201cthe destroyer of all heresies.\u201d We have a magnificent example of that in the divine maternity.<\/p>\n

The proclamation of the Virgin as \u201cMother of God,\u201d\u00a0Theotokos\u00a0<\/em>in Greek, was done to refute the Nestorian heresy. This Patriarch of Constantinople (428-431) claimed that there were two persons in Jesus Christ: a divine person and a human person. This heresy divided Christ and ruined the dogma of the Incarnation. The consequence was the refusal of the title of\u00a0Theotokos<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The heresiarch was fought by St. Cyril of Alexandria. The Church\u2019s approval of the formula \u201cMother of God,\u201d in the church of St. Mary of Ephesus, definitively refuted the Nestorian heresy. It was in this way that Mary triumphed victoriously over this grave error and she again crushed the head of the serpent.<\/p>\n

Let us welcome the wish of St. Pius X: \u201cmay the Immaculate Virgin, the destroyer of all heresies, be with you by her prayers and aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Holy Scripture affirms the divine maternity in an eloquent manner: \u201cBehold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call His name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the most High; and the Lord God shall giveRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":39713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39750,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions\/39750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}