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SHE WAS PRE-FIRGURED

PART OF GODS SALVATION PLAN

CHOSEN FROM THE BEGINNING

NO AN AFTER THOUGHT

3. 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." 4. 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 5. What did the Quran say?

O Mariam, Allah gives you good tidings of `a Word from Him' whose name shall be theMessiah , 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.Luke1: 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."

8. 9. 10. 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 Bible 11. Traditions of the Church

"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 byus , either byword of mouthorby letter "(2 Thess. 2:15). St. Paul

"So faith comes from what is heard, andwhat is heard comes by the preaching of Christ" (Rom. 10:17).

St. Paul

12. 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 Authority granted to the Church 13. CREATED IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD 14. 15. 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. 16. 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 handof the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and thedead, and his kingdom will have no end. 17. Nicene Creed We 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. 18. 19. 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." 20. 21.

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

22. 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 23.

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

NOTCONCEPTION OF JESUS VIRGIN BIRTH

24. THE VISITATION Luke 1: 39-45 25.

Meeting of two women pregnant through divine intervention at different levels

Elizabeths greeting:- (Luke 1:42-43)

..you are the most blessed

..the Mother of the Lord

Marys response

The Magnificat (Luke 1:45-55)

all generations will call me blessed

FROM LUKE 1:28

ROSARY - JOYFULMYSTERY

27. 28. FIRST MIRACLE MARYS 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)

JESUSRESPECTED HER MOTHERS INTERCESSION AND PERFORMED THE FIRST MIRACLE AND NOT THE LAST DEFINTELY

4 THCOMMANDMENT Honor your father and mother ;

PROVERBS 15: 29The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears theprayer of the righteous.

JAMES 5: 16 The prayers of the righteous is powerful and effective

HOW CAN JESUS REFUSETHE INTERCESSION OF HIS BELOVED MOTHER?

30. 31. 32.

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

33. Michelangelo's Piet in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican 34. ITS BREAK TIME ! 35. 36. 37. Mary in Church Doctrine A time-line

Mother of God Council of Ephesus 431

Immaculate ConceptionIneffabilis DeusPope Pius IXDec. 8 1854

The Assumption Munificentissimus Deus Nov. 1 1950

3 Components of Marian Devotion:

- Veneration

- Invocation

- Imitation

Source:The New CatholicEncyclopaedia

39. 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 CHURCHMADE EX-CATHEDRAL DOGMAS 40. PROMULGATED DOGMAS ASSUMPTION IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 41. ASSUMPTION

ASSUMPTION- BODY AND SOUL

POSSIBLE

BEFORE MARY- THERE WERE 3 WHO ASCENDED- ENOCH, ELIJAH, JESUS

NOT STATED IN BIBLE

SHE DIED- NOBODY AND NO GRAVE FOUND

BELIEVED BY EARLY CHURCH DOGMA ISSUED IN 1950 POPE PIUS XII

42. MARYS 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

43. 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; 44. 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. 45. MARYS 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.)

46. 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 Ftima

Our Lady of Lourdes

Our Lady of Presentation

Our Lady of Peking

47. Our Lady ofDeliverance,honored in Peking in the church of Beitang, in thanksgiving for themiraculous protection granted to those who defended the region during August 15, 1900. 48.

PREPARE US TO BE FAITHFUL AND HOLY JUST SHEWAS- 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 YOUJOHN 2:5

49. DEVOTION TO MARY 50.

All generations will call me blessed

Hail Mary/Ave Maria

Rosary and Angelus

Novenas

Pilgrimages

Special prayers eg Memorare

DEVOTION TO MARY 51. ROSARY The rosary is one of the most cherished prayers of our Catholic Church. 52. 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.

53. THE HAIL MARY Luke 1:28 54. 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." 55. 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." 56. THE ANGELUS V. The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary, R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.HailMary ... V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord, R. Be it done unto me according to ThyWord. Hail Mary.. V. And the Word was made flesh, R. And dwelt amongst us. Hail Mary... 57. V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. R. That we may be made worthy of thepromise 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) 58. 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 59. CONCLUSION Heb. 13:7 - we must imitate the faith of our faithful leaders. We ask for their intercession and venerate them for their holiness. 60. MIRACLES OF MARY 61. 62. 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.

63. MIRACLES OF MARY 64. Sunday, August 20, 2006, Ephesus, Turkey Wild forest fire swept through 1,200 hectres of land and surpassed Marys house and carried on 65. 66. Saints

Holy persons (Latin sanctus-holy, consecrated)

St. Paul describes a believer as a saint and routinely calls Christian communities saints .

( egEph 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 theMystical 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)

69. 70. 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 arepilgrims on the earth ; others, having passed from this life, areundergoing purificationand are helped also by our prayers. Othersalready enjoy the glory of Godand intercede for us. All of these together form in Christ one family, the Church, to the praise and glory of the Trinity CCC961-962 71. 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 72. 73. Canonisation of Saints

Martyrs -who died for their faith in Christ Confessors -who died after a life of heroic virtue.

Procedure

Inquiries Congregation for the Causes of SaintsVenerable

Beatification evidence of virtues and miracles Blessed.

Canonisation - two miracles worked at his/her intercession Saint

Canonization does not "make" a person a saint; it recognizes what God has already done.

74. Canonization Process- nutshell

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

Fourth Step

Canonization

*Second miracle is required

The Blessed is declareda saint in a solemn,public mass at the Vatican by the Pope.

75. 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

76. 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

77. 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)

78. 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)

79. What do all thesemean to me ?Finally, 80.

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:

Charity

82. Patron Saints

Personal

Baptism

Confirmation

Sources:www.catholic.org/saints

Parish Library

Catholic Bookshops (Arrupe, Daughters of St. Paul)

83. THE GREAT FIAT "Let it be with me according to your word"(Luke 1:38)

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son son

true god

son of god heir

likeness of god

virgin mary

son of mariam

son jesusrespected

mother proverbs