Shrine.) ...in honor of the Annunciation and the Incarnation: two facets of the same event. The Old Testament makes no mention of the humble town of Nazareth, located on the border of the country of Israel
The spiritual climate of Jesus' childhood is found in the the Old Testament. The essential element of domestic or synagogal cult rests on the blessing, by which the believer thanks God each instant of
1931, 194s). To share in Christ's Resurrection, Mary had first to share in his death. T he New Testament provides no information on the circumstances of Mary's death. This silence leads one to suppose
patristic literature. Marian literature allows us to trace the figure of the Virgin Mary in the Old Testament by establishing the links between the symbolic representation of the Virgin in all of Scripture
anointed ones, who stand before the Lord of the whole world.” (Zechariah 4: 14 JB) [3] See the Testament of the Twelve patriarchs (Sim. 7: 2) [4] cf. Ephesians 2: 19: “Now therefore ye are no more strangers
Adeodatus, ca. 373. Augustine joined the Manichees, a religious sect that not only rejected the Old Testament, but also renounced most of the ordinary pleasures of life associated with eating, drinking and
Sister of the New Covenant, followed by the writings of a saint or by a selected passage of the New Testament, and ending with the prayer to Our Lady Liberatrix for the deceased. Program of the Novena to Our
and perfect sacrifice which redeems the world. The divine plan is gradually revealed in the Old Testament, particularly in the words of the Prophet Isaiah which we have just heard: "The Lord himself will
FUNCTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN IN THE PLAN OF SALVATION 55. The sacred writings of the Old and New Testaments, as well as venerable tradition, show the role of the Mother of the Saviour in the plan of salvation [...] salvation in an ever clearer light and call our attention to it The books of the Old Testament describe the history of salvation, by which the coming of Christ into the world was slowly prepared. The earliest
Accepting to become the virgin Mother of the Son of God requires a faith of which no one, in the Old Testament, was ever capable. It calls for total liberty, not with a liberty of indifference, but a liberty
