Gender and Christianity (Leaving Cert Religious Education): Flashcards

Greatest of all saints, mother of Jesus Christ

Honour & seek intercession; worship belongs to God alone

'Let it be to me according to your word' - her fiat

'Blessed are you among women'

Voice for social justice & God's concern for oppressed

'Do whatever he tells you'

'Woman, behold your son!' & 'Behold, your mother!'

'God-bearer/Mother of God'; Council of Ephesus 431 AD

1854; Mary conceived without original sin

1950; Mary taken body & soul into heaven

Mary remained virgin before, during & after Jesus' birth

Meditative prayer on events in Jesus' & Mary's lives

Lourdes

8 December

Ideal Christian response to God's call; first to believe