Maryja pierwszą Apostołką Bożego Miłosierdzia
MARY - THE FIRST APOSTLE OF DIVINE MERCY

Summary/Abstract: On the base of Marian Fathers' Congregation and Magisterium of the Church sources we can notice strong connection between Immaculate Mary the Mother of God and the mystery of God's Mercy. In the dimension of granting with Divine Mercy graces and Mary's own experience of mercy, the first place takes her preceding, anticipatory redemption in the very moment of her conception. Grace of the Immaculate Conception became the beginning of next Mary's privileges and mysteries like her virginal maternity, maternity of the Church, Assumption and the glory of the Queen of Heaven and earth. As a predicator of God's Mercy, Mary adores this mystery and promulgates its message in the joyful hymn Magnifcat. Mother of Divine Mercy Incarnated adores God who had granted mercy to her and to the whole world. In the sign of Vilnius icon, Mother of Mercy of Dawn Gate (Ostrobramska, Aušros Vartų) is “the radiant sign” of mercy for us (cf. John Paul II, VS 120). As a merciful Mother of Church or other words God's Mother of Mercy, Immaculate Virgo potens, Salus et Protectio - with the great power practices mercy towards the people. For that they call her Refuge of sinners, Advocate, Consolation and Health of sick. As a Mother of Merciful Jesus and Mother of Church she participates in our salvation cooperating with Christ in works of His mercy and also, trough the matter of her revelations, she teaches us how to pray for God's mercy and to take deeds of mercy in atonement of our sins and the whole world. The precedence and priority of Mary's apostolate consists in it, that she is an immaculate beginning of the Christianity and the Church. That is - in my opinion - the meaning of the Holy Mary's sentence: "I am an immaculate conception" that she told to Saint Bernardette in Lourds. The conception - it is the beginning of human being. The Holy Mary's beginning was contemporaneously her baptism, the granting her with plenty of sanctifying grace, the renovation and sanctification. For that Mary is the first Christian and the very beginning and an immaculate beginning of the Christianity. This first gift of Divine Mercy, which was an Immaculate Conception, brings the fruits that are two great missions of Holy Mary: God's maternity and maternity of the whole Church, towards the all of baptized. Therefore Mother of Mercy - the first witness of Divine Mercy Incarnate and His first apostle is also in the human and earthly dimension - the immaculate beginning of the Church, of the Church for whom - in the absolute dimension - Jesus Christ is a Founder, Head, God and Lord. Mary is a Most Holy Mother of the new People of God, who are a new created by the Divine Mercy (cf. 2 Cor 5: 17; Ga 6: 15), washed with Christ's Blood, regenerated and renewed by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3: 5; Jn 3: 5), and who aspire yet - following in Mary's footsteps - to become the saint and an immaculate, "holy and without blemish before Him” (Eph 1: 4).

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