20 Mary And The Saints

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• SHE WAS PRE-FIRGURED

• PART OF GOD’S SALVATION PLAN

• CHOSEN FROM THE BEGINNING

• NO AN AFTER THOUGHT

GENESIS 3:15“I will put enmity

between you and the

woman, and

between your

offspring and hers;

He will strike at your

head, while you

strike at his heel."

700 YEARS BEFORE THE VIRGIN BIRTH

“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. The Virgin Herself will be with a Child and give birth

to a Son and will call Him Immanuel."

Isaiah 7:14

What did the Quran say?

• “O Mariam, Allah gives you good

tidings of `a Word from Him'

whose name shall be the Messiah,

Isa, the son of Mariam, highly

honoured in this world and the

next; and he shall be one of those

brought near `to Allah” (Sura The

House of Imran 3:45).

• ANGEL GABRIEL;

• “HAIL, FULL OF GRACE….” Luke 1: 28

• MARTIN LUTHER ;

• "She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God ... It is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God.“

• JOHN CALVIN:

• "It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.”

• Ulrich Zwingli:

• "The more the honor and love of Christ increases among men, so much the esteem and honor given to Mary should grow."

There was much else that Jesus did; if it were

written down in detail, I do not suppose the world

itself would hold all the books that would be written.

John 21:25

• "He who hears you hears me, and

he who rejects you rejects me"

(Luke 10:16).

• "stand firm and hold to the

traditions which you were taught by

us, either by word of mouth or by

letter" (2 Thess. 2:15). St. Paul

• "So faith comes from what is heard,

and what is heard comes by the

preaching of Christ" (Rom. 10:17).

• St. Paul

So I now say to you: You are Peter

and on this rock I will build my

Church. And the gates of the Hell can

never overpower it.

I will give you the keys of the

kingdom of Heaven: whatever you

bind on earth will be bound in

heaven; whatever you loose on earth

will be loosed in heaven.'

Matt 16:18-19

CREATED IN THE IMAGE AND

LIKENESS OF GOD

CALVARY

CANNACRIB

CREATION

Nicene Creed

We believe in one God, the Father, the

Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all

that is seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only

Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father,

God from God, Light from Light, true God

from true God, begotten, not made, of one

Being with the Father.

Nicene Creed

Through Him all things were made. For us

men and for our salvation he came down from

heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he

was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man.

For our sake He was crucified under Pontius

Pilate; He suffered, died, and was buried. On

the third day he rose again in fulfilment of the

Scriptures; He ascended into heaven and is

seated at the right hand of the Father. He will

come again in glory to judge the living and the

dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

Nicene CreedWe believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the

giver of life, who proceeds from the Father

and the Son. With the Father and the Son he

is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken

through the Prophets.

We believe in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic

Church.

We acknowledge one baptism for the

forgiveness of sins. We look for the

resurrection of the dead, and the life of the

world to come. Amen.

GENESIS 3:15“I will put enmity

between you and the

woman, and

between your

offspring and hers;

He will strike at your

head, while you

strike at his heel."

• TO BEAR THE WORD INCARNATE

• SON OF GOD

• HEIR TO THE THRONE OF DAVID

• WHOSE KINGDOM WILL HAVE NO END

• KING OF KINGS

• ROYAL DIGNITY BESTOWED

• MOTHER OF KING

• MOTHER OF GOD

ANNUNCIATION- LUKE 1 : 26-38

“Greetings favoured one”

“Hail, Full of Grace”

Luke 1: 28

To become the mother of the Savior, Mary "was

enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a

role.” The angel Gabriel at the moment of the

annunciation salutes her as "full of grace”. In

fact, in order for Mary to be able to give the free

assent of her faith to the announcement of her

vocation, it was necessary that she be wholly

borne by God's grace. - CCC 490

• CONCEPTION OF MARY WITHOUT SIN TO BE THE ARK OF THE NEW COVENANT;

• THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF MARY: BORN WITHOUT ORIGINAL SIN (CCC 490- 493)

• WHAT IT IS NOT ;

• NOT CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

• NOT CONCEPTION OF JESUS – VIRGIN BIRTH

THE VISITATION –Luke 1: 39-45

Meeting of two women –pregnant through

divine intervention at different levels

Elizabeth’s greeting:- (Luke 1:42-43)

“…..you are the most blessed”

“…..the Mother of the Lord”

Mary’s response

The Magnificat (Luke 1:45-55)

“…all generations will call me blessed”

•FROM LUKE 1:28

•ROSARY - JOYFUL MYSTERY

FIRST MIRACLE – MARY’S INTERCESSION

• MARY INTERCEDED- SHE ASKED HER SON

• SON SHOWED HE WAS NOT READY

• AND SHE REMINDED: “DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU !” ( ALWAYS LEAD US TO HER SON)

• JESUS RESPECTED HER MOTHER’S INTERCESSION AND PERFORMED THE FIRST MIRACLE AND NOT THE LAST DEFINTELY

• 4TH COMMANDMENT – “Honor your father and mother;”

• PROVERBS 15: 29 – “The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.”

• JAMES 5: 16 – “ The prayers of the righteous is powerful and effective”

• HOW CAN JESUS REFUSE THE INTERCESSION OF HIS BELOVED MOTHER?

“ He said to his mother: "Woman, here is

your son". Then he said to the disciple: “Here

is your mother.“ John 19:26-27

• SHE STOOD FAITHFUL FROM THE CRIB TO CANNA AND NOW AT CALVARY

• ALWAYS THERE WITH HER SON

• JESUS GAVE HER MOTHER TO US

• MOTHER OF THE CHURCH

• HONOURED AND REVERED IN EVERY CHURCH

Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican

IT’S BREAK TIME !

Mary in Church DoctrineA time-line

• Mother of GodCouncil of Ephesus 431

• Immaculate Conception Ineffabilis Deus Pope Pius IX Dec. 8 1854

• The AssumptionMunificentissimus DeusNov. 1 1950

• 3 Components of MarianDevotion:

• - Veneration

• - Invocation

• - Imitation

Source: The NewCatholic Encyclopaedia

The Church (Magisterium) defines dogmas as:-

“Dogmas are truths contained in Divine Revelation or having a necessary connection with it and defined in a form obliging the Christian people to an irrevocable adherence of faith “ (CCC 88)

DOGMAS ARE INFALLIBLE TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH MADE EX-CATHEDRAL

DOGMAS

PROMULGATED DOGMASASSUMPTIONIMMACULATE CONCEPTION

ASSUMPTION

• ASSUMPTION- BODY AND SOUL

• POSSIBLE

• BEFORE MARY- THERE WERE 3 WHO ASCENDED-ENOCH, ELIJAH, JESUS

• NOT STATED IN BIBLE

• SHE DIED- NO BODY AND NO GRAVE FOUND

• BELIEVED BY EARLY CHURCH – DOGMA ISSUED IN 1950 POPE PIUS XII

MARY’S PERPECTUAL VIRGINTY

• Teaching of the Universal Church

• The Council of Constantinople II (553-554) twice referred to Mary as "ever-virgin."

• Martin Luther (1483-1546), On the Divine Motherhood of Mary;

• C.C.C. 499-501

PENITENTIAL RITE (1)

I confess to almighty God,

and to you, my brothers and

sisters, that I have sinned

through my own fault in my

thoughts and in my words, in

what I have done, and in what

I have failed to do;

PENITENTIAL RITE (2)

and I ask blessed Mary,

ever virgin, all the angels

and saints,

and you, my brothers and

sisters, to pray for me to

the Lord our God.

MARY’S PERPECTUAL VIRGINTY

• Martin Luther (1483-1546), On the Divine Motherhood of Mary;

• Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), who wrote:

• I firmly believe that Mary, according to the words of the gospel as a pure Virgin brought forth for us the Son of God and in childbirth and after childbirth forever remained a pure, intact Virgin. (Zwingli Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Berlin, 1905, v. 1, p. 424.)

TITLES OF MARY

• Mother of God;

• Queen of Heaven

• Star of the Sea

• Seat of Wisdom

• Our Lady of Guadalupe

• Our Lady of Vladimir

• Our Lady of Fátima

• Our Lady of Lourdes

• Our Lady of Presentation

• Our Lady of Peking

Our Lady of Deliverance,

honored in Peking in the church of Beitang, in thanksgiving for the miraculous protection granted to those who defended the region during August 15, 1900.

• PREPARE US TO BE FAITHFUL AND HOLY JUST SHE WAS- IMITATE HER : 1 COR 4: 16-17; PHIL 3:17; HEBREW 13:17; SIRACH 44:1-1

• DRAW ALL MAN TO HER SON;

• “DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU” JOHN 2:5

DEVOTION TO MARY

•“All generations will call me blessed”

•Hail Mary/Ave Maria

•Rosary and Angelus

•Novenas

•Pilgrimages

•Special prayers eg Memorare

DEVOTION TO MARY

ROSARY

The rosary is

one of the

cherished

prayers of our

Catholic

Church.

MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY

•Joyful (Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Presentation

and Finding in the Temple),;

•Sorrowful (Agony in the Garden, Scourging, Crowning

with Thorns, Carrying of the Cross and Death);

•Glorious (Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost,

Assumption and Coronation).

•Luminous mysteries: Baptism at the Jordan, Wedding

Feast of Cana, Proclamation of the Kingdom of God,

Transfiguration and Institution of the holy Eucharist.

THE HAIL MARY

Luke 1:28

ROSARY

After the apparitions of Our Lady at

Fatima in 1917, the prayer Mary taught to

the children has generally been added at

the end of each decade:

"O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save

us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to

heaven, especially those in greatest

need of Thy mercy."

ROSARY

Archbishop Fulton Sheen said,

"The rosary is the book of the blind, where

souls see and there enact the greatest drama

of love the world has ever known; it is the

book of the simple, which initiates them into

mysteries and knowledge more satisfying

than the education of other men; it is the book

of the aged, whose eyes close upon the

shadow of this world, and open on the

substance of the next. The power of the

rosary is beyond description."

THE ANGELUS

V. The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary,

R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

Hail Mary …...

V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord,

R. Be it done unto me according to Thy

Word. Hail Mary…..

V. And the Word was made flesh,

R. And dwelt amongst us. Hail Mary...

V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God.

R. That we may be made worthy of the

promise of Christ.

Let us pray

Pour forth , we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy

grace into our hearts; that we, to whom

the Incarnation of Christ Thy Son was

made known by the message of an angel,

may, by His passion and cross, be brought

to the glory of His Resurrection; through

the same Christ our Lord. Amen

The angelus (2)

MEMORARE

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,

That never was it know that anyone who fled to your

protection.

Implored your help or ought your intercession,

Was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence,

I fly to you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother;

To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and

sorrowful.

O Mother of the Word Incarnate. Despise not my

petitions. But in your mercy hear and answer me,

CONCLUSION

Heb. 13:7 - we

must imitate the

faith of our faithful

leaders. We ask

for their

intercession and

venerate them for

their holiness.

MIRACLES OF MARY

Hiroshima Rosary Miracle - Safe in the Midst of Hiroshima Nuclear Blast !!

• Over five hundred thousand people were killed.. Everything within a one-mile radius was completely destroyed. That is almost everything was destroyed.

• There was a home eight blocks (about 1 kilometer) from where the A-Bomb went off in Hiroshima Japan. This home had a church attached to it which was completely destroyed, but the home survived, and so did the eight German Jesuit missionaries who prayed the rosary in that house faithfully every day.

MIRACLES OF MARY

Sunday, August 20, 2006,Ephesus, Turkey

Wild forest fire swept through1,200 hectres of land and

surpassed Mary’s house and carried on

Saints

• Holy persons (Latin “sanctus”-holy,

consecrated)

• St. Paul describes a believer as a saint and

routinely calls Christian communities saints.

( eg Eph 1:1; 2Cor 1:1).

•We are all one family in heaven and on

earth, united together, as children of the

Father.

Eph. 3:14-15-

•We are called to be saints. Saints refer

to both those on earth and in heaven

who are in Christ. 1 Cor. 1:2; Rom. 1:7 -

• Pope Pius XII –Encyclical on the Mystical Body, said “it is the society of those who have been baptized, and who profess the faith of Christ, and who are governed by their bishops under the visible head, the Pope, the Bishop of Rome.”

• St. Paul speaks of all Christians as members of Christ, so that with Him, they form one Mystical Body (Cf. 1 Cor 12:12-31; Col 1:18; 2:18-20; Eph. 1:22-23; 3:19; 4:13)

CommunioSanctorum

(Communion of Saints)

Church Militant

(Earth)

Church in Suffering

(Purgatory)

Church Triumphant

(Heaven)

This expression also refers to the communion

between holy persons (sancti); that is, between

those who by grace are united to the dead and

risen Christ. Some are pilgrims on the earth;

others, having passed from this life, are

undergoing purification and are helped also by

our prayers. Others already enjoy the glory of

God and intercede for us. All of these together

form in Christ one family, the Church, to the

praise and glory of the Trinity – CCC 961-962

For though we live in the world we

are not carrying on a worldly war,

for the weapons of our warfare are

not worldly but have divine power

to destroy strongholds.

2 COR 10:4

Church Triumphant

Church in Suffering

Church Militant

Canonisation of Saints

Martyrs - who died for their faith in Christ Confessors -who died after a life of heroic virtue.

Procedure

1. Inquiries – Congregation for the Causes of Saints

– “Venerable”

2.Beatification – evidence of virtues and miracles –

“Blessed”.

3.Canonisation - two miracles worked at his/her

intercession – “Saint” Canonization does not "make" a person a saint; it recognizes what God has

already done.

Canonization Process- nutshell

1. First Step

A petition is made to open a cause for

canonization for a servant of God.

2. Second Step

The servant of God is declared

“Venerable”

3. Third Step

Beatification

*One miracle is required

4. Fourth Step

Canonization

*Second miracle is required

The Blessed is declared a saint in a

solemn, public mass at the Vatican by the

Patron Saints

• Nations

– England (George)

– Egypt (Mark)

– China (Mary)

– France (Joan of Arc)

– USA (Immaculate Conception of Mary)

– Vietnam (Joseph)

– Borneo (Francis Xavier)

Source: www.catholic.org/saints

Patron Saints

• Churches

– St Francis Xavier Church PJ

– St Ignatius Church PJ

– Assumption Church PJ

– St. Thomas Moore, Subang

– St John Cathedral KL

– St Michael Church Ipoh

Patron Saints

• Trades or Professions

– Accountants & Bankers (Mathew)

– Civil Servants (Thomas Moore)

– Carpenters (Joseph)

– Journalists (Francis de Sales)

– Fishermen (Andrew)

– Teachers (John Baptist de la Salle)

– Doctors (Luke)

– Wine Merchants (Amand)

Patron Saints

• Special Cases/Circumstances

– Lost Articles (Anthony of Padua)

– Illegitimate Children (John Francis)

– Hopeless Case (Jude)

– Deaf (Francis de Sales)

– Pensioners (Our Lady)

– Travelers (Christopher)

What do all these

mean to me… ?

Finally,

• It reminds us, that

individually, we are all

called to be “saints”;

– “be holy, for I am holy,” (Lev 11:44 and

– “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is

perfect” (Mt 5:48)

• It invites us to live a life

–Faith

–Hope

–Charity

Patron Saints

• Personal

–Baptism

–Confirmation

–Sources: www.catholic.org/saints

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THE GREAT FIAT

"Let it be with me according to your word"

(Luke 1:38) 83

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