Hinh Chapter 3 Flashcards
Fiat
Latin for “let it be done” This was the Blessed Virgin Mary’s response to God’s plan of redemption; it was her consent to become the Mother of God.
Annunciation
The visit of the Archangel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary to inform her she would be the Mother of the Savior, commemorated on March 25. Having given her consent to God’s word, the Blessed Virgin Mary became the Mother of God the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Gabriel
One of the Archangels named in Sacred Scripture and the special messenger of God to the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Annunciation.
Immaculate Conception
In light of God’s free choice of the Blessed Virgin Mary from all eternity to be the Mother of his Son, it was ordained, from the first moment of her conception, she - by a singular grace of God and by virtue of the foreseen merits of Jesus Christ - was preserved from all stain of Original Sin, Believed from antiquity, this dogma was formally defined by Pope Bl. Pius IX in 1854.
Incarnation
From the Latin for “to become flesh”; the mystery of hypostatic union of the divine and human natures in the one divine Person of the Word, Jesus Christ. To bring about man’s salvation, the Son of God was made flesh and became man.
Mary
The Mother of Jesus. The Blessed Virgin Mary’s greatest privilege is her divine Mother hood and, hence, her title Bearer of God, or Mother of.
Virgin Birth
The Blessed Virgin Mary conceived Christ by the power of the Holly Spirit. She, therefore, was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus Christ. The Virgin Birth is also an implicit proclamation of the divinity of Jesus Christ.
Elizabeth
The wife of St. Zechariah, mother of St. John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Genealogy
From the Greek for “tracing of descent”; the study of ancestry or a list of someone’s ancestors. Sts. Matthew and Luke Contain genealogies of Christ in their Gospels.
Visitation
The Blessed Virgin Mary visited her kinswoman St. Elizabeth. Her greeting, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!” forms part of the Hail Mary. St. Elizabeth went to call the Blessed Virgin Mary “mother of my Lord.”
Anna
The prophetess who recognized Jesus as the Messiah when he was presented in the Temple. Anna, or Ann, is also the name of the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Finding in the Temple
Described in Luke 2: 41-52, Christ and his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. On the return journey, the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph discovered Christ was not with them, and after three days, found him in the Temple, discoursing with the teacher of the Law.
Magi
The wise men described in Matthew 2. They came from the East (likely Persia) to adore the newborn King of the Jews and brought him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Tradition has given them the names Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar.
Nativity
The Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ in Bethlehem as well as the events surrounding his Birth.
Paschal Mystery
Christ’s work of redemption accomplished by his Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension, whereby, “dying he destroyed our death, and rising he restored our life”. The Paschal Mystery is celebrated and made present in the liturgies through the Sacrament of the Eucharist, which renews the Paschal Sacrifice of Christ as the sacrifice offered by the Church.
