The Blessed Virgin Mary

Lesson Goals

• Recognize the different titles of Mary and their significance
• Articulate Mary’s role in the Church
• Approach Mary as a mother and recognize the role of St. Joseph in the lives of Mary and Jesus.
• Identify Mary’s role in God’s plan of salvation

Chosen from all eternity to be the Mother of the Redeemer

Her History

• Her "Yes" to God makes up for the refusal of Eve to serve God.
• Parents were Joachim & Ann
• Info about her found in Matthew & Luke
• From Nazareth, Galilee

Can you locate Nazereth?

Proto-evangelium

Titles of Mary

• Mother of the Redeemer
• Mother of the Church
• Ever Virgin
• Mary--Your Mother too

Doctrine: a teaching of the church

Dogma: cannot be doubted or changed

Not every doctrine is a dogma.

St Ambrose

Immaculate Conception

Mary, Our Mother