Pillar I: The Creed
Journey Through Scripture: Bible & the Virgin Mary Session 8: Mother Crowned in Glory
|Bible Reading |CCC Rdg |Misc Rdg |
|Mat 2:1-12; Lk 1:31-33, 43; |466, 495, 509, 971, 975, 2677 |Search “How I came to think differently about|
| | |Mary” |
|Excerpt from Marian Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas, O most blessed and sweet Virgin Mary,//Mother of God, filled with all tenderness,//Daughter of the most high |
|King,//Lady of the Angels,//Mother of all the faithful,//On this day and all the days of my life,//I entrust to your merciful heart my body and my soul,//all my |
|acts, thoughts, choices,//desires, words, deeds,//my entire life and death[…] Amen |
Discussion Questions:
1. What details in the Gospels point to Mary being the Queen Mother?
2. What was the first official Marian dogma defined by the Church?
3. What scriptural precedent is there for the title “Mother of God”?
4. What controversy in the early Church was behind the debate over Mary’s title, “Mother of God”?
5. Where and how was that controversy settled?
6. Why do you think the vast majority of early Christians had no objections to the title? What does their acceptance of that title teach us?
7. How does recognizing that Mary is the Queen Mother of Son’s Kingdom change your understanding of how you can relate to her?
8. Why do you think many non-Catholics object to Mary’s title, “Mother of God”?
9. Have you ever found yourself sympathetic to their objections? Why or why not?
Journey Through Scripture: Bible & the Virgin Mary Session 8: Mother Crowned in Glory
|Bible Reading |CCC Rdg |Misc Rdg |
|Mat 2:1-12; Lk 1:31-33, 43; |466, 495, 509, 971, 975, 2677 |Search “How I came to think differently about|
| | |Mary” |
|Excerpt from Marian Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas, O most blessed and sweet Virgin Mary,//Mother of God, filled with all tenderness,//Daughter of the most high |
|King,//Lady of the Angels,//Mother of all the faithful,//On this day and all the days of my life,//I entrust to your merciful heart my body and my soul,//all my |
|acts, thoughts, choices,//desires, words, deeds,//my entire life and death[…] Amen |
Discussion Questions:
1. What details in the Gospels point to Mary being the Queen Mother?
2. What was the first official Marian dogma defined by the Church?
3. What scriptural precedent is there for the title “Mother of God”?
4. What controversy in the early Church was behind the debate over Mary’s title, “Mother of God”?
5. Where and how was that controversy settled?
6. Why do you think the vast majority of early Christians had no objections to the title? What does their acceptance of that title teach us?
7. How does recognizing that Mary is the Queen Mother of Son’s Kingdom change your understanding of how you can relate to her?
8. Why do you think many non-Catholics object to Mary’s title, “Mother of God”?
9. Have you ever found yourself sympathetic to their objections? Why or why not?
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