Thursday, August 16, 2018

147. Mary and the communion of saints


Mary and the communion of saints

YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 147
Ave Maria series

147  Why does Mary have such a preeminent place in the communion of saints?

Mary is the Mother of God.  She was united with Jesus on earth as no other human being was or could be—in an intimacy that does not cease in heaven.  Mary is the Queen of Heaven, and in her motherhood she is quite close to us.  [972]




Our Lady Help of Christians Shrine,  Miguel Hidalgo, Federal District, Mexico. …..147



Because she committed herself, body and soul, to a divine yet dangerous undertaking, Mary was taken up body and soul into heaven.  Anyone who lives and believes as Mary did will get to heaven.  80-85

The Assumption of Mary:  “This mystery is given to us so that…a divine light might be shed on our death.”  Romano Guardini (1885-1968)

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MARY - ESCHATOLOGICAL ICON OF THE CHURCH
972 After speaking of the Church, her origin, mission, and destiny, we can find no better way to conclude than by looking to Mary. In her we contemplate what the Church already is in her mystery on her own "pilgrimage of faith," and what she will be in the homeland at the end of her journey. There, "in the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity," "in the communion of all the saints,"(Lumen gentium 69)518 the Church is awaited by the one she venerates as Mother of her Lord and as her own mother. —Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition

In the meantime the Mother of Jesus, in the glory which she possesses in body and soul in heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected in the world to come. Likewise she shines forth on earth until the day of the Lord shall come, a sign of certain hope and comfort to the pilgrim People of God.( Lumen gentium 68; compare 2 Peter 3: 10)519 –CCC

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