Marie de Nazareth
To Jesus, through Mary
Pope John Paul II at Lourdes in 1983.
In his homily on 8 December 1978, Pope John Paul II developed the plan of God the Father, our Creator, a plan of love expressed in what is known as a "theology of election". He has chosen man from eternity to share in his own Life. This election takes place in the eternal Son, the Word consubstantial with the Father, through the Incarnation. For the Incarnation, God chose the Virgin Mary to be the Mother of Jesus, His beloved Son.
"God, in his eternal love, chose man from eternity[1]He chose him in his Son.
God chose man so that he could attain the fullness of goodness by means of participation in his own life: Divine life through grace.
He chose him from eternity in an irreversible way.
Neither original sin, nor the whole history of personal faults and social sins have been able to dissuade the eternal Father from his plan of love. They could not annul our election in the eternal Son, the Word consubstantial with the Father.
Since this election had to take shape in the Incarnation, since the Son of God had to become man for our salvation, it is for this very reason that the eternal Father chose for him, from among men, the Mother."
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John Paul II, homily, 8 December 1978.
[1] Faith in God the Creator is rooted above all in the accounts of Genesis (Gen 1-3), and the theology of election is rooted above all in the book of Deuteronomy (Deut 7).
-on Mary in God's planin the Marian Encyclopaedia
-on the theology of electionin the Encyclopaedia of Mary
-on chosen by God from all eternityin the Marian Encyclopaedia
-on I believe in God (Credo)in the Marian Encyclopaedia
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