Mary Immaculate, Model for the Church and Her People | Prof. Joshua Benson

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Professor Joshua Benson explores Mary's role as a model for the Church and believers, focusing on her spiritual transformation and her exemplary reception of God's Word. Drawing from various theological sources, including Franciscan texts and Bernard of Clairvaux's writings, this talk examines Mary's immaculate conception, her response to the Annunciation, and her contemplative nature. Professor Benson also emphasizes how Mary's choices and dedication to God made her "formidable" and set apart, suggesting that followers of Christ may experience similar perceptions from the world.

This lecture was given on December 9th, 2023, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Joshua Benson specializes in Medieval Theology. He has taught at The Catholic University of America since 2008 and served as Chair of the Department of Theology and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University from 2018-2020.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:28.4	Name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
0:31.2	Amen.
0:32.5	Hail lady, holy queen, bearer of God, Mary, who is the Virgin-made Church, chosen by the Most Holy Father from heaven,
0:45.8	whom he consecrated with his most beloved, most holy son, and the Holy Spirit in whom there was and is every fullness of grace and every good.
0:57.6	Hail his palace.
0:59.7	Hail his tabernacle.
1:01.7	Hail his house.
1:03.6	Hail his vestment.
1:05.6	Hail his handmade.
1:07.6	Hail his mother.
1:09.6	And all you holy virtues who infused into the hearts of the faithful through
1:17.2	grace and illumination of the Holy Spirit make us faithful to God from being unfaithful. Amen. Father Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. That text is called a salutation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
1:33.0	It's not known precisely why Francis composed it other than that there's a, there's this
1:40.3	salutation, as they call it, of the Blessed Virgin. And then as that text ends, you can hear it
1:46.5	changing over into talking about the virtues. I mean, clearly sees as being uniquely in Mary.
1:54.2	And then he begins to hail and praise all the virtues. So he kind of talks about each virtue,
1:59.7	and then it's antithesis, the thing that it heals.
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