THE CULT OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN IN THE CHURCH
nature and basis of the cult of the saint Virgin
The Church rightly honors a special worship the one God's grace has made less than the Son of course, but above all the angels and all men, because of its role of Most Holy Mother of God, and his association with the mysteries of Christ. Already, since the earliest times, Blessed Virgin Mary is venerated under the title "Mother of God, and faithful in their prayers, took refuge under her protection in the midst of all dangers and difficulties they encounter. This is especially since the Council of Ephesus the cult of the people of God to Mary, the veneration and love, prayer and imitation, admiration, according to the prophecy of Mary herself: "All generations' m will call her blessed, because the Almighty has done great things for me "(The 1, 48-49). This cult, which still exists in the Church, although it is quite strange character, differs essentially the worship rendered to the Incarnate Word and the Father and the Holy Spirit and he strongly favors the latter. Indeed, thanks to various forms of Marian devotion that the Church has approved as appropriate time and place and in the character and disposition of the faithful, provided they tinssent within a sound and orthodox doctrine Through these forms of devotion, therefore, while the Mother is honored, the Son, for whom everything exists (cf. Col. 1, 15-16) and that "it has pleased the eternal Father" to any resident fullness "(Col. 1, 19), is rightly known, loved and glorified and obeyed. (Vatican II: Lumen Gentium ", 66).
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