Mary, The Cross And Salvation
Our Lady of the Passion, called in the West, “Our Lady of Perpetual Succour”. The Christ Child looks at the instruments of the Cross and, in fright, jumps up into his mother’s arms (his sandal is falling off) His mother is looking at us, challenging us: “Are we really worth the death of her Son? Are we taking his death sufficiently seriously? Do we sufficiently value the salvation that Christ has won for us?
Saint Albert the Great (1196/1206 – November 15th, 1280) teaches that the Divine Logos would have become man even if man had not sinned:
“I believe that the Son of God would have become man even if there had been no sin…Nevertheless, on this subject I say nothing in a definitive manner; but I believe that what I said is more in harmony with the piety of faith.”
“Credo quod Filius Dei factus fuisset homo, etiamsi numquam fuisset peccatum…tamen nihil de hoc asserendo dico : sed credo hoc quod dixi, magis concordare pietati fidei.”
- St Albertus Magnus, III In Sententiarum d. 20, a. 4
“Now of all the creatures which that sovereign omnipotence could produce, he thought good to make choice of the same humanity which afterwards in effect was united to the person of God the Son; to which he destined that incomparable honour of personal union with his divine Majesty, to the end that for all eternity it might enjoy by excellence the treasures of his infinite glory. Then having selected for this happiness the sacred humanity of our Saviour, the supreme providence decreed not to restrain his goodness to the only person of his well-beloved Son, but for his sake to pour it out upon divers other creatures, and out of the mass of that innumerable quantity of things which he could produce, he chose to create men and angels to accompany his Son, participate in his graces and glory, adore and praise him for ever. And inasmuch as he saw that he could in various manners form the humanity of this Son, while making him true man, as for example by creating him out of nothing, not only in regard of the soul but also in regard of the body; or again by forming the body of some previously existing matter as he did that of Adam and Eve, or by way of ordinary human birth, or finally by extraordinary birth from a woman without man, he determined that the work should be effected by the last way, and of all the women he might have chosen to this end he made choice of the most holy virgin Our Lady, through whom the Saviour of our souls should not only be man, but a child of the human race. Furthermore the sacred providence determined to produce all other things as well natural as supernatural in behalf of Our Saviour, in order that angels and men might, by serving him, share in his glory; on which account, although God willed to create both angels and men with free-will, free with a true freedom to choose evil or good, still, to show that on the part of the divine goodness they were dedicated to good and to glory, he created them all in original justice, which is no other thing than a most sweet love, which disposed, turned and set them forward towards eternal felicity.”
On the Primacy of Christ:
+ Saint Lawrence of Brindisi
This encounter became the historic cause of much of our present understanding. Both sides were rather surprised to discover that they basically had the same religion, that their criticisms, however strongly put, were criticisms from the inside, not from the outside, and, for that reason, had to be listened to: that they had, not two distinct traditions, but, as Father Georges Florovsky put it, one single Tradition which has become disjointed in certain areas. Father Georges Florovsky recognised that, in spite of differences that are important enough to be obstacles to communion, Catholic and Orthodox traditions belong to each other. (See the video by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on Catholic – Orthodox relations). This means that our encounters will not only be opportunities to learn about each other: looking at our different theologies will shed light on our understanding of ourselves and of our own faith. This is what has happened here. Let it go on happening.
(1*) see “La Nouvelle Theologie)
click on ANCIENT FAITH TODAY for an Orthodox interpretation.
2013-03-26 11:46:46
Source: http://fatherdavidbirdosb.blogspot.com/2013/03/mary-cross-and-salvation.html
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