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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
CREED
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 !
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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
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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;
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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
most
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,
AMEN
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
Pope.
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)
Source: www.catholic.org/saints
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)
Source: www.catholic.org/saints
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
45)
– “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is
perfect” (Mt 5:48)
• It invites us to live a life
of:
–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"
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