1of 5 – The Big Picture – 5 Marian Stones – Fr Elias
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Ave Maria!
Fr Elias Mills preaches the retreat for our layperson group, the MIM, in the Fall of 2022, titled "5 Marian Stones," that is, five dogmas of Mary, Mother of God, Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, Assumption into heaven and Coredemptrix, the last of which is only proposed. Father explains how these dogmas form the basis of the spirituality of St. Maximilian Kolbe, which is followed by the Franciscans of the Immaculate (FI) and, thus, the MIM.
Notes:
Scotus - Absolute primacy of Christ - If adam did not sin, would Christ have come?
Letter to the Ephesians
First in intention, last in execution
What is more perfect - Immaculate Conception
Trinity - The goal of creation is the greatest glory - thus God-man - so planned from the beginning
Immaculate conception follows on the heels of this - thus called the joint predestination
Less Christ, more confusion
Make Christ king, and order will return
Apocalypse 12 - Ark of Covenant and Mary - Then battle
Test of angels - God shows his plan of becoming man - Satan, I will not serve, especially Mary
Fall and confirmation of angels mediated b Christ and Mary
Virgo Ecclesia Facta - Theology of St Francis - True Christo Centric is Marian Centric
Christ with mary through mary and in Mary …. God wanted it that way
Why Immaculate Conception
God could do it - It as fitting - So he did it
Proto Evangelium - Not christ alone but with his mother
Colomba Marmion - the farther you get from Mary, the farther you get from Christ
To imitate Christ, you need to love his mother
Devil attacked Eve because he thought she was the woman who would give birth to the God-man that he saw in the vision, the test. He thought, now she is on my side and was, this is why Mary needed to be immaculately conceived
Typology - types that give clues to find the big picture, with circular repetition of the same theme
Word for the whole retreat, “Woman”
Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Qmd92QbMv88
About this series, 5 Marian Stones, refers to the five Marian Dogmas of the Catholic Church. Four have been proclaimed, Mother of God, Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, Assumption into heaven, and another that is proposed, Mary Coredemptrix (and Mediatrix, Advocate), which has a strong basis in tradition and in the magisterium.
For the YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmd92QbMv88&list=PLejh_e0-LN4yfkhWiRjD0P2Ki5YhxOHPv
About the MIM: MIM stands for Mission of the Immaculate Mediatrix. It is an apostolate of the Franciscans of the Immaculate (FI), that helps lay people participate in their spirituality, which is to live and promote unlimited consecration to Mary, the Mother of God and Immaculate Mediatrix.
For more on the MIM https://marymediatrix.com/m-i-m/
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