“A Virgin conceived, a Virgin bore, and a Virgin she remains.”                 -St. Peter Chrysologus

For Reflection:

Read Paragraphs 499-501 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. What do these paragraphs teach about Mary’s perpetual virginity, the reference to brothers and sisters of Jesus in Sacred Scripture, and Mary’s spiritual motherhood?

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Mary's fiat, then, her willingness to let God's will be done, appears as the power in her infirmity. In woman's constitutive desire to surrender, to give herself, rests the very depth of life, for such surrender is the expression of the creature's unquestioning acceptance of the will of God.