ROLE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN IN THE ECONOMY THE SALVATION
The Mother of the Messiah in the Old Testament
The Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, and the venerable tradition, show with increasing clarity The role of the Mother of the Saviour in the economy of salvation and we are, so to speak, under the eyes. The books of the Old Testament describe the history of salvation, which slowly prepared the coming of Christ in the world. These earliest documents, according to the intelligence that has the Church in light of the full revelation follow, are little a little clearer light the figure of a woman, Mother of the Redeemer. She guessed that already prophetically presented sounds that light in the promise that was given to our first parents fell into sin, victory over the serpent (cf. Gen. 3, 15). Similarly, she is the Virgin who shall conceive and bear a son, whose name will be Emmanuel (cf. Is 7, 14, cf. Mich. 5, 2-3; Mt 1, 22-23). It is at the forefront of these poor and humble of the Lord who await salvation with confidence, and receive him hello. And finally, with her exalted Daughter of Sion, after the long wait for the promise, the times are fulfilled and a new economy is created where the Son of God takes it human nature to free man from sin by the mysteries of his flesh. Mary at the Annunciation
Father of mercies willed that the acceptance of the predestined mother precede the Incarnation, he wanted a woman had also contributed to the death, even a woman should give to life. And this is an extraordinary way for the Mother of Jesus, who gave the world the very Life that renews all things, and it has been enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a high office. It is not surprising that the Holy Fathers commonly called the Mother of God the All Holy, the one that is free from every stain of sin, which is shaped and formed as a new creature by the Holy Spirit. Decorated in the first instant of her conception of the splendor of holiness quite strange, the Virgin of Nazareth is on the order of God, hailed by the Angel of the Annunciation as "full of grace" (cf. Lk 1, 28), and the heavenly messenger she replies: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word" (Lk 1, 38). Thus Mary, daughter of Adam, consenting to the word of God is became the Mother of Jesus and embracing the heart, without being impeded by no sin, God's saving will, she devoted herself totally as a handmaid of the Lord to the person and work of her Son, all in the service of mystery dependence of redemption of his Son and in union with him, by the grace of God Almighty. It is therefore right that the Fathers believe that Mary was not a purely passive instrument in God's hands, but as freely cooperating in the salvation of man in the freedom of faith and obedience. In fact, as St. Irenaeus, "in obedience, she became the cause of salvation for itself and for all mankind. "And, with Irenaeus, many early Fathers gladly assert in their preaching, that" the knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience; that the virgin Eve bound through her unbelief, faith of the Virgin Mary loosened "and by comparison with Eve, they call Mary" Mother of the living "and frequently claim:" death came by way of Eve, life by that of Mary. " (Vatican II: Lumen Gentium, 55-56)
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