The Blessed Virgin Mary
In the pages that follow, I will make three main points. First, I will discuss Mary as the Mother of God. Then I will present all the other prerogatives that flow from the chief prerogative, her divine motherhood. Finally, I plan to address the liberation of Mary, that is, the evolution of Marian thinking to contemporary forms. The Church teaches that since Mary gave birth of the Son of God, she was truly the Mother of God. This fact was defined as an article of faith by the Third Ecumenical Council, which met in Ephesus in 431 under the presidency of St. Cyril of Alexandria (Pohle 4). Miriam, as she would have been known, lived in the town of Nazareth, a small village just south of the Galilean hills. She is seldom mentioned in the Gospel stories. Many scenes and characters one would assume appear in the Gospel do not. Instead, they have been added by legend, art, and devotion in later centuries. For example, St. Anne is never revealed – the New Testament tells us nothing of Mary’s parentage. It also does not have Jesus appear to his mother after his Resurrection. Most of the scenes that Mary is included in relate to either the birth or the childhood of Jesus.
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Approximate Word count = 1472
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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