Paschal Mystery Unit 3 Course Notes

Mary is conceived in her mother’s womb without original sin

• happened because of Christ’s holiness

• remained free from sin lifelong

Mary’s invitation from God through angel Gabriel

• makes Mary the model of faith

how Mary fulfilled her earthly purpose and was assumed to Heaven

virgin mother of Jesus

Jesus saves us all; Mary = mother to us all

Holy Spirit conceives Jesus = virginial birth

• her virginity proves that God is Jesus’s father

Jesus = New Adam

Mary = perfect realization of the Church

way of reading Scripture that recognizes how things foretell Jesus and God’s plan for Salvation

Eve

• “first lady” of creation

• mother of all living

• lost friendship with God because of no trust

• tempted Adam to sin

• mother of all who inherit death and sin

• disobeyed God because of the fallen angel

• “seed” prophesied to crush head of serpent

Mary

• “first lady” of new creation under Christ

• mother of all living (Jesus gives her at his death to John to be our mother)

• won God’s friendship (“handmaid of the Lord”)

• convinces Jesus to follow God

• mother of all born into eternal life and mother of those who inherit life

• obeyed God’s angel

• her “seed” Christ will crush the serpent’s head

God’s power that created the cosmos (Mary became pregnant with Logos through the Holy Spirit)

English translation of Logos

mystery of Jesus’s identity

refers to Logos taking flesh and becoming man

mystery of Jesus’s mission

Jesus lived out the ancient Jewish covenant, the unbreakable relationship between God and His people

his journey before ultimately dying on the cross begins here

asks John the Baptizer to baptize him

the water is polluted with our sins and Jesus emerges covered in it

• this proves he’s taking our sins with him all the way to the cross

it manifested divinity (AKA it was an epiphany):

• God spoke and called Jesus His beloved son → calling all of us His beloved children

• then God comes as the Holy Spirit and rests within Christ

anything that entices us or provokes us to sin

Note on the Temptations: As with Adam and Eve in the Garden, Satan never disobeys God—his plan for all of us is to sow doubt in our faith in God; this is why we sin

Temptation #1:

• Jesus is driven by the Spirit to fast in the wilderness for 40 days

• Satan comes and tries to break his faith in God and his identity as the Son

• Jesus quotes Scripture = truth

Temptation #2:

• Jesus is taken by Satan to the pinnacle of the temple to jump off

• he once again does not indulge Satan but instead speaks truth

Temptation #3:

• Satan challenges Jesus’s faith for the final time and this time offers him dominion over the world

  • Satan can offer this because he holds the world captive to sin

• Jesus tells him to leave and proves that he will eventually rebuff sin and take back the world

this is his final test of identity before he can go minister in the world and it affirms him as the Son of God

father of all future people

taken from untouched (“virgin”) earth

woman/wife made from his rib

lost friendship with God → inherited death

partnership between man and woman failed through Satan and Eve tempting Adam

first new man

father of the redeemed people

taken from untouched woman (the Virgin Mary)

his wife = Church; taken from his rib at the cross

won God’s friendship → inherited life

the solemnly vowed indissoluble relationship between God and His people

heresy; properties of human nature were lost in the Incarnation

Jesus takes human nature without losing the properties of human nature (opposite of absorbed)

taking it on means the second person of the Trinity takes human nature AND a human body

one who foretells the coming of the Messiah

foretold in Scripture

one who foretells the coming of the Lord

one who lives in seclusion + solitude

John the Baptizer

manifestation of divinity

ex.: Baptism of Jesus

Jesus

first human to experience risen life

“slanderer” or “accuser”

transcendent effects of a morally evil act

the term for a fallen angel

chief fallen angel known by this