Maryja - Matka nadziei
Mary, Mother of Hope

Summary/Abstract: The article presents Mary as the Morning Star of hope, and develops this title in the light of the four Marian dogmas: virginity, Divine motherhood, Immaculate conception, and the Assumption. Mary is interpreted as the dawn of the new paradise, in which deified humanity will share in God’s holiness and life, and as a foreshadowing of the eschatological fulfillment of the pilgrim Church. At the same time, the Christian hope is confronted with modern forms of “political gnosis” (Marxism and the concepts of Gramsci, Marcuse, and Bloch), which promise an immanent “salvation” of man. In the light of the encyclical “Spe salvi”, Christian hope is shown as a reality already present in Mary, who makes the future new paradise initially present and inspires believers to shape temporal reality responsibly, without succumbing to the illusions of earthly “paradises”.The article presents Mary as the Morning Star of hope, and develops this title in the light of the four Marian dogmas: virginity, Divine motherhood, Immaculate conception, and the Assumption. Mary is interpreted as the dawn of the new paradise, in which deified humanity will share in God’s holiness and life, and as a foreshadowing of the eschatological fulfillment of the pilgrim Church. At the same time, the Christian hope is confronted with modern forms of “political gnosis” (Marxism and the concepts of Gramsci, Marcuse, and Bloch), which promise an immanent “salvation” of man. In the light of the encyclical “Spe salvi”, Christian hope is shown as a reality already present in Mary, who makes the future new paradise initially present and inspires believers to shape temporal reality responsibly, without succumbing to the illusions of earthly “paradises”.The article presents Mary as the Morning Star of hope, and develops this title in the light of the four Marian dogmas: virginity, Divine motherhood, Immaculate conception, and the Assumption. Mary is interpreted as the dawn of the new paradise, in which deified humanity will share in God’s holiness and life, and as a foreshadowing of the eschatological fulfillment of the pilgrim Church. At the same time, the Christian hope is confronted with modern forms of “political gnosis” (Marxism and the concepts of Gramsci, Marcuse, and Bloch), which promise an immanent “salvation” of man. In the light of the encyclical “Spe salvi”, Christian hope is shown as a reality already present in Mary, who makes the future new paradise initially present and inspires believers to shape temporal reality responsibly, without succumbing to the illusions of earthly “paradises”.The article presents Mary as the Morning Star of hope, and develops this title in the light of the four Marian dogmas: virginity, Divine motherhood, Immaculate conception, and the Assumption. Mary is interpreted as the dawn of the new paradise, in which deified humanity will share in God’s holiness and life, and as a foreshadowing of the eschatological fulfillment of the pilgrim Church. At the same time, the Christian hope is confronted with modern forms of “political gnosis” (Marxism and the concepts of Gramsci, Marcuse, and Bloch), which promise an immanent “salvation” of man. In the light of the encyclical “Spe salvi”, Christian hope is shown as a reality already present in Mary, who makes the future new paradise initially present and inspires believers to shape temporal reality responsibly, without succumbing to the illusions of earthly “paradises”.

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