Mariology

🇬🇧 🎙️A Triune Fiat: The Annunciation as the New Creation

Pubblicato 25 Marzo 202628 Marzo 2026 da catholicafides

It is very fitting to contemplate the mystery of the Annunciation in the light of the mystery of Creation. The Annunciation is the beginning of Redemption and therefore the new Creation, when all things begin to be made anew. God spoke and things were created. God pronounced His Fiat and all creatures were made. God speaks again at the Incarnation of His Son, and the Word becomes flesh. It is the Triune God who speaks and says Fiat at the beginning of humankind and at its restoration.

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🇬🇧 🎙️ Our Lady’s 7 Words & the Offertorial Silence

Pubblicato 7 Febbraio 20267 Febbraio 2026 da catholicafides

Our Lady pronounced only 7 words recorded by the Gospels: from the Annunciation through the Visitation, the finding of Jesus in the temple, up until Cana. As Jesus manifested His glory at that significant wedding, Our Lady ceased to speak publicly. Why? Moreover, in two central moments of Jesus’ life, the Presentation in the temple and Calvary – two offertorial moments – no word by the Virgin Mary is recorded. Mary’s silence is obedience to God and praise of His majesty. It is oblative. Her silence is the very pattern of Christian life and of liturgical offering at Mass.

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🇬🇧 🎙️Our Lady as the Gebirah – the Queen Mother in Mt 2:11

Pubblicato 17 Gennaio 2026 da catholicafides

Why is St Joseph not mentioned in the account of the Magi upon their arrival at Bethlehem (cf. Mt 2:1-11)? Joseph of Nazareth plays a prominent role in Matthew’s Gospel, though. His presence is well outlined in what just precedes the moment of the adoration of the Magi (the Angel telling Joseph in a dream about the divine Incarnation) and what follows it (Joseph alerted by the angel to flee with Jesus and Mary into Egypt). So he is definitively not forgotten by the evangelist.

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