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Day 66: True God and True Man

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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Is Mary the Mother of God?

The Council of Ephesus in 431 proclaimed that Mary truly is the mother of God. The Greek word to say, the way to say that is theotokos or theotecos,. She's the mother ofGod by the human conception of the son of God in her womb. So she gave birth to Jesus Christ, a divine person with a human and divine nature. And so we have the Monophysite heresy in paragraph 467 that affirmed that the human nature had ceased to exist as such in Christ when he assumed it.

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