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CWR Staff: Joseph Ratzinger: The Mystery of the Annunciation is the Mystery of Grace – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

CWR Staff: Joseph Ratzinger: The Mystery of the Annunciation is the Mystery of Grace

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By Catholic World Report Staff, April 7, 2024

Selections from two works by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

From Dogma und Verkundigung, quoted in Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year (Ignatius Press, 1992):

The mystery of the annunciation to Mary is not just a mystery of silence. It is above and beyond all that a mystery of grace.

We feel compelled to ask ourselves: Why did Christ really want to be born of a virgin? It was certainly possible for him to have been born of a normal marriage. That would not have affected his divine Sonship, which was not dependent on his virgin birth and could equally well have been combined with another kind of birth. There is no question here of a downgrading of marriage or of the marriage relationship; nor is it a question of better safeguarding the divine Sonship. Why then? …

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