Video – Fr. Peter – Redemptoris Mater – CONF 288

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Ave Maria!

During the First Saturday devotion by the Marian Catechists at the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Fr. Peter explains how Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical Redemptoris Mater (Mother of the Redeemer) gives a complete synopsis of mariology and how Our Lady is the only adequate way to be introduced into the reality of the Trinity and the connection between the head, Jesus, and the rest of the mystical body of Christ, the Church. We do not know Christ until we see Mary as the Mother of God (Council of Ephesus). He then relates this to Mary’s spiritual motherhood of all Christians and thus the means for unity in the family of God.

Outline of Redemptoris Mater

Introduction 1-6
I.	Mary in the Mystery of Christ 1. Full of grace 7-11 2. Blessed is she who believed 12-19 3. Behold your mother 20-24
II.	The Mother of God at the Center of the Pilgrim Church 1.The Church, the People of God present in all the nations of the earth 25-28 2. The Church’s journey and the unity of all Christians 29-34 3. The “Magnificat” of the pilgrim Church 35-37
III.	Maternal Mediation 1. Mary, the Handmaid of the Lord 38-41 2. Mary in the life of the Church and of every Christian 42-47 3. The meaning of the Marian Year 48-50
Conclusion 51