The Mystery of the Annunciation is the Mystery of Grace | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) | Ignatius Insight
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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