Paschal Mystery Unit 3 Course Notes

Immaculate Conception

• Mary is conceived in her mother’s womb without original sin

  • happened because of Christ’s holiness

  • remained free from sin lifelong

Annunciation

• Mary’s invitation from God through angel Gabriel

  • makes Mary the model of faith

Assumption

• how Mary fulfilled her earthly purpose and was assumed to Heaven

Mary and Jesus

• virgin mother of Jesus

• Jesus saves us all; Mary = mother to us all

• Holy Spirit conceives Jesus = virginial birth

  • her virginity proves that God is Jesus’s father

• Jesus = New Adam

• Mary = perfect realization of the Church

Typology

• way of reading Scripture that recognizes how things foretell Jesus and God’s plan for Salvation

Eve’s Typology

• Eve

  • “first lady” of creation

  • mother of all living

  • lost friendship with God because of no trust

  • tempted Adam to sin

  • mother of all who inherit death and sin

  • disobeyed God because of the fallen angel

  • “seed” prophesied to crush head of serpent

Mary’s Typology

• Mary

  • “first lady” of new creation under Christ

  • mother of all living (Jesus gives her at his death to John to be our mother)

  • won God’s friendship (“handmaid of the Lord”)

  • convinces Jesus to follow God

  • mother of all born into eternal life and mother of those who inherit life

  • obeyed God’s angel

  • her “seed” Christ will crush the serpent’s head

Logos

• God’s power that created the cosmos (Mary became pregnant with Logos through the Holy Spirit)

The Word

• English translation of Logos

Incarnation

• mystery of Jesus’s identity

• refers to Logos taking flesh and becoming man

Paschal Mystery

• mystery of Jesus’s mission

• Jesus lived out the ancient Jewish covenant, the unbreakable relationship between God and His people

The Baptism of Jesus

• his journey before ultimately dying on the cross begins here

• asks John the Baptizer to baptize him

• the water is polluted with our sins and Jesus emerges covered in it

  • this proves he’s taking our sins with him all the way to the cross

• it manifested divinity (AKA it was an epiphany):

  • God spoke and called Jesus His beloved son → calling all of us His beloved children

  • then God comes as the Holy Spirit and rests within Christ

Temptation

• anything that entices us or provokes us to sin

The Temptation of Jesus 1

• Note on the Temptations: As with Adam and Eve in the Garden, Satan never disobeys God—his plan for all of us is to sow doubt in our faith in God; this is why we sin

• Temptation #1:

  • Jesus is driven by the Spirit to fast in the wilderness for 40 days

  • Satan comes and tries to break his faith in God and his identity as the Son

  • Jesus quotes Scripture = truth

The Temptation of Jesus 2

• Temptation #2:

  • Jesus is taken by Satan to the pinnacle of the temple to jump off

  • he once again does not indulge Satan but instead speaks truth

The Temptation of Jesus 3

• Temptation #3:

  • Satan challenges Jesus’s faith for the final time and this time offers him dominion over the world

    • Satan can offer this because he holds the world captive to sin

  • Jesus tells him to leave and proves that he will eventually rebuff sin and take back the world

• this is his final test of identity before he can go minister in the world and it affirms him as the Son of God

Adam Typology

• father of all future people

• taken from untouched (“virgin”) earth

• woman/wife made from his rib

• lost friendship with God → inherited death

• partnership between man and woman failed through Satan and Eve tempting Adam

Jesus Typology

• first new man

• father of the redeemed people

• taken from untouched woman (the Virgin Mary)

• his wife = Church; taken from his rib at the cross

• won God’s friendship → inherited life

Covenant

• the solemnly vowed indissoluble relationship between God and His people

Absorbed

• heresy; properties of human nature were lost in the Incarnation

Assumed

• Jesus takes human nature without losing the properties of human nature (opposite of absorbed)

Flesh

• taking it on means the second person of the Trinity takes human nature AND a human body

Messianic Prophet

• one who foretells the coming of the Messiah

New Elijah

• foretold in Scripture

• one who foretells the coming of the Lord

Recluse

• one who lives in seclusion + solitude

• John the Baptizer

Epiphany

• manifestation of divinity

• ex.: Baptism of Jesus

New Adam

• Jesus

• first human to experience risen life

Satan

• “slanderer” or “accuser”

Sin

• transcendent effects of a morally evil act

Devil

• the term for a fallen angel

• chief fallen angel known by this