Tag: Creed

One final point is worth noting about this part of the Creed:  There is a whole lifetime crammed into the space after “and became man.”  That’s because the Creed contains

One final corollary that goes with the Incarnation of the Son of God is this: the hallowing of images.  This is, again, not something most people think about.  However, it

The Incarnation is, of course, an incomprehensible miracle.  So in a certain sense we cannot say “how” it happened. But we can speak about certain wrong ways of understanding it. 

Nestorius essentially proposed that there were two persons co-existing in Jesus’ head. One of them was the Word or Logos or Second Person of the Trinity: God the Son. The other

The Catechism speaks the plain historical truth of the Church’s message when it declares without compromise: Belief in the true Incarnation of the Son of God is the distinctive sign

As we recite the words “He was incarnate of the Virgin Mary and became man”) something happens in the liturgy that is worth noting.  On most days of the year

The Church has always encouraged the faithful to cultivate a loving and filial relationship with Mary.  Some Christians are fearful that doing so is a form of idolatry.  But there

John sees Mary as a sign and icon of the Church, just as the early Fathers did. All of them thought her virginity, like Christ’s, was significant. For all ancient