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Learning Outcomes
At the end of the lesson, the
students can:
D: identify correctly the Church‟s
Teaching about the specific title of
Mary through tabular presentation;
M: cite concrete ways of following
Jesus like Mary through reflective
writing; and
W: thank God for the gift of Mary in
the Church through writing their
personal prayer.
BTI
.2.2.1 Demonstrate understanding
of learning environments that
promote fairness, respect and care
to encourage learning
Domain 3: Diversity of Learners
3.2.1 Implement teaching strategies
that are responsive to the learners‟
linguistic, cultural, socio-economic
and religious backgrounds.
CapSoul of the Session
“Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now”
Blessed Mother Theresa
Introduction
There is something special in Mary aside
from being the Mother of Jesus. She is an
exemplar of our Christian faith by showing to us
how to understand and believe in Jesus‟ words
and deeds.
Mary as the mother of Jesus and as the first
one who believes in Jesus as the Son of God
plays an essential role in our faith. She works in
silence with Jesus in carrying salvation to the
world.
As believers of Jesus, we show special love
and devotion to Mary. People‟s devotion to Mary
vary from place to place and they are based on the
culture of the people. For us Filipino Catholics, we
have the devotion to Mary like “Birhen sang
Barangay.” Every month of October we pray the
Rosary everyday in different houses in the
Barangay. This devotion shows how we love Mary
and her significance in our life as the Mother of
Jesus.
This module presents the theological,
biblical, and doctrinal foundation of our beliefs on
Mary through diverse images. There maybe many
of them but what common is Mary‟s extraordinary
relationship with the Son of God and how she
became a mother to Him.
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ACTIVITY

Picture Analysis
Mary’s picture below is the Marists Brothers’ image of Mary. Answer the
questions that follow

1. Describe Mary in the picture.

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2. Based on the picture, why do you think Mary is considered by the Catholic
Church as “Mother of God?”
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3. Based on this image, why do we consider Mary as the “Model of Christian Faith?”
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 Set 3: Synthesis of the students‟ output c/o teacher
(Short summary of the students‟ answer per question. )

ACQUISITION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE

Mary in Catholic Doctrine

518. Our Filipino Marian piety is solidly grounded on the doctrinal teaching of the
Church. Vatican II presents the Blessed Virgin Mary in the final chapter of its Dogmatic
Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium).
The Church‟s teaching on Mary is presented in four sections:
• the Role of the Blessed Virgin in the Plan of Salvation;
• the Blessed Virgin and the Church;
• Devotion to the Blessed Virgin in the Church; and
• Mary, a Sign of Sure Hope and Solace for the Pilgrim People of God.
1. Mother of God
The title of Vatican II‟s exposition of Mary is: “The Role of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mother of God, in the Mystery of Christ and the Church” (LG Chap. 8). It begins with
perhaps the oldest Biblical testimony: “when the designated time had come, God sent
forth His Son, born of a woman . . . that we might receive our status as adopted sons”
(Gal 4:4-5; LG 52). The most basic truth and the essential core of Mary‟s unique dignity
and role in God‟s salvific plan is sharply etched:
The Virgin Mary is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God
and of the Redeemer. Redeemed in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the
merits of her Son and united to him by a close and indissoluble tie, she is
endowed with the high office and dignity of the Mother of the Son of God, and
therefore she is also the beloved daughter of the Father and the temple of the
Holy Spirit (LG 53).
Everything we know and revere about Mary, then, depends upon her unique, God-given
vocation to be the “Mother of God and of the Redeemer.” This doctrine is expressed
everytime we pray the Hail Mary: “Holy Mary, Mother of God” (cf. CCC 495). This
asserts not that Mary is a “goddess,” but that her Son is truly God. Mary gives Jesus
what any human mother gives her baby. Through her, Jesus is truly man. “The Son of
Mary and the Son of God IS one and the same person, Emmanuel” (AMB 52). What is
unique here is God‟s action: the Eternal Son of God united to His Person the baby

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conceived in Mary‟s womb by the power of the Holy Spirit. The baby born of Mary was
the God-man, Jesus. “Thus the holy Fathers have unhesitatingly called the holy Virgin
„Mother of God‟ (Theotokos, „God-bearer‟)” (Council of Ephesus; ND 605).

2. Blessed Virgin
Mary, Virgin and Mother, manifests God‟s perfectly free initiative in the Incarnation
(God‟s Word/Son becoming enfleshed, Jn 1:14). Mary‟s perpetual virginity is not simply
abstention from sexual intercourse, but the positive value of perfect personal integrity in
her total gift of self to God. Mary‟s virginity flowered into maternity not only for Jesus,
the first-born of all creation (cf. Rom 8:29; Col 1:15,18), but also for all who would be
born again to new life in him (cf. Jn 3:3; 1 Jn 5:11; LG 57; CCC 499-501). The Virgin
Birth, then, is not a privilege affecting only Jesus and Mary, but a positive sign of the
Father‟s gracious saving love which adopts us all in sending His Son, and the Spirit‟s
building a new People of God, the Body of Christ, the Church.
Against current attacks and doubts both within and without the Church, about Mary‟s
virginal conception and motherhood, a Catholic profession of faith could calmly respond
that Mary‟s virginal conception is not just a symbolic description or literary device of
Matthew and Luke to describe God‟s intervention, nor is it merely a human construct to
insist on Jesus “divinity. ” Rather, it is simply the way God in fact chose to send His Son
into the world when the fullness of time had come (Gal 4:4). We Filipino Catholics
believe this both from Scripture and from the constant and consistent teaching of the
Church.
3. The Immaculate Conception
Mary, therefore, had the unique mission from God to be Mother of His Son-made-man,
the Redeemer. She thus shares in a special way Jesus‟ salvific mission. From this
mission flows her singular grace and privilege of the Immaculate Conception (cf. CCC
490). This signifies that Mary was, “from the first moment of her conception, in view of
the merits of Christ Jesus the Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all
stain of original sin” (ND 709). The “Immaculate Conception” as God‟s gift to Mary,
therefore, is doubly Christ-centered: first, as given because she would be Mother of
Christ; second, as showing that no one is saved apart from Christ, even those who lived
centuries before him. “In view of the merits of Christ” means Mary was made holy by her
immediate relationship to Christ, the source of grace, for whom and towards whom all
things are created (cf. Col 1:15-17).
4. The Assumption
Moreover, thus “preserved free from all guilt of original sin, the Immaculate Virgin was
taken up body and soul into heavenly glory [Assumption] upon the completion of her
earthly sojourn” (LG 59; cf. ND 715; CCC 966). With her Assumption to join her Son, the
Risen Christ, in the fullness of her personality, Mary reveals the fullness of God‟s

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redeeming work for all of us, “a sign of certain hope and comfort to the pilgrim People of
God” (LG 68).
Both privileges of Mary, her Immaculate Conception and her Assumption, are not
exceptions that separate Mary from us. They are rather privileges of fullness and
completion. Mary‟s grace is universally shared; her privilege is that of fullness. Both
privileges are constituted by the Spirit‟s presence, in whom we are all called to share.
Thus they put Mary at the inmost core of all human persons and of the Church.
Practically speaking, this meant that, sinless like Christ himself, Mary was not blinded or
confused by pride or false self-centeredness. More fully and truly “human” than we are,
Mary then can truly appreciate our human trials and failures. These graces were given
to Mary precisely in view of her unique role in God‟s plan to save all through Christ‟s
redemptive mission.
5. Mary as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix of all Graces and Advocate (proposed Dogma)

Authentic Catholic doctrine teaches that Mary‟s intercession does not in any way detract
from, or add to, the unique mediation of Christ (cf. 1 Tim 2:5-6). Two analogies help us
to understand this. First, in God‟s continuing act of Creating, the one goodness of God
is communicated diversely to all creatures. Second, the priesthood of Christ is shared in
various ways both by sacred ministers and by all the baptized. Hence, in like manner,
the unique mediation of Christ is shared by all, since God calls all to cooperate, in
manifold human ways, in Christ‟s redemptive mission (cf. LG 62). Catholics see in Mary
a special cooperation due to her God-given role within His saving work through Christ
and the Spirit.

Feast Days of Mary

Table 1.
Date Celebration Significance
January 1 Solemnity of Mary, On this holy feast day, we take a moment as we
Mother of God start our new year to honor our Blessed Mother,
who in her “yes” to God brought our Savior into
the world to redeem us.
February 2 Presentation of the Occurs forty days after the birth of Jesus and is
Lord also known as Candlemas day
February 11 Our Lady of The Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical
Lourdes memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a
series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin
Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl,
Saint Bernadette Soubirous.
March 25 Annunciation The Solemnity of the Annunciation celebrates the
coming of the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to
announce to her the special mission God had

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 chosen for her in being the mother of His only
son.
May 13 Our Lady of Fatima It was on this day that the Blessed Virgin Mary
started her series of apparition to three shepherd
children in the small village of Fatima in Portugal
in 1917.
May 31 Visitation The feast of the Visitation recalls to us the
following great truths and events: The visit of the
Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth
shortly after the Annunciation
June 27 Our Mother of The devotion to this Marian advocation revolves
Perpetual Help around the picture of Our Lady of Perpetual
Succour, painted on wood, with background of
gold.
July 16 Our Lady of Mount The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
Carmel celebrated on July 16, was first instituted in the
late 14th century in commemoration of the
approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a
hundred years earlier.
August 15 Assumption his significant feast day recalls the spiritual and
physical departure of the mother of Jesus Christ
from the earth, when both her soul and her body
were taken into the presence of God.
August 22 Queenship of Mary In this feast, particularly cherished by the Popes
of modern times, we celebrate Mary as the
Queen of Heaven and Earth. Pope Pius IX
said of Mary's queenship: "Turning her maternal
Heart toward us and dealing with the affair of our
salvation, she is concerned with the whole
human race.
September Birth of Mary The Catholic Church celebrates the birth of the
8 Blessed Virgin Mary on its traditional fixed date of
September 8, nine months after the December 8
celebration of her Immaculate Conception as the
child of Saints Joachim and Anne.
September Our Lady of The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows commemorates
15 Sorrows the seven great sorrows which Mary lived in
relation to Her Son, as they are recorded in the
Gospels or through Tradition.
October 7 Our Lady of the On October 7, the Roman Catholic Church
Rosary celebrates the yearly feast of Our Lady of the
Rosary. Known for several centuries by the
alternate title of “Our Lady of Victory,” the feast
day takes place in honor of a 16th century naval
victory which secured Europe against Turkish
invasion.

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November Presentation of the commemorates the presentation of the Blessed
21 Blessed Virgin Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in
Mary Jerusalem.
December 8 Immaculate The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first
Conception moment of her conception, by a singular grace
and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the
merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race,
preserved immune from all stain of original sin."
December Our Lady of The day commemorates her apparition to Saint
12 Guadalupe Juan Diego in the hills of Tepeyac in 1531. She
asked him to go to the bishop and tell him that
the Ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God, sent him to
ask for a church to be built atop Tepeyac hill.

The Month of Mary is May.

The Month of the Rosary is October.

The Feast of the Immaculate Heart is the Saturday following the Second Sunday
after Pentecost.

The First Saturday of each Month is also dedicated to Marian Devotions.

Some Marian Devotions

Table 2.
Jesus chose to come to us through the Blessed
Virgin Mary, and faithful Christians can choose to go
Devotion to the Immaculate to Jesus through Mary. Our Lady, who is unique in all
Heart of Mary of God's creation, has a perfect love for Jesus. She is
an exemplary model for how we should love God,
giving us a flawless example. Mary is closer to Christ
than any other person and knows best what leads us
to Him.
The earliest documented history of the Our Lady of
Perpetual Help icon is sometime in the year 1495.
People in Crete venerated Our Lady because
Our Lady of Perpetual Help numerous prayer requests had been granted to those
who were devoted to her. The devotion to this Marian
advocation revolves around the picture of Our Lady of
Perpetual Succour, painted on wood, with
background of gold.
the Rosary is a very powerful prayer tool which
contains a total of 59 strung beads, a crucifix and,
possibly, a center piece. It is used by Catholics of all

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The Holy Rosary
The Miraculous Medal
ages throughout the world to contemplate the Lord
and his Blessed Mother, to help them prayerfully seek
spiritual and temporal favors from God for themselves
and for others, and to praise and thank God.
Originally called the "Medal of the Immaculate
Conception", the Miraculous Medal was struck in the
early 1800's after an apparition of our Blessed Mother
to St. Catherine Laboure in Rue du Bac, France. This
medal was fashioned after St. Catherine's vision, on
the instruction of the Blessed Mother herself. The
front of the medal contains an image of the Virgin
Mary standing on a globe with outstretched hands
emitting a dazzling light framed in an oval with the
words "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us
who have recourse to thee". On the back of the
medal, twelve stars encircle an "M" surmounted by a
cross with a crossbar with an image of the Sacred
Heart of Jesus crowned in thorns and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary pierced with a sword appearing
underneath.

Some of Marian Apparitions

Table 3.
St. Juan Diego encountered Mary as he climbed the
Our Lady of Hill of Tepeyac in Mexico during a routine walk in
Guadalupe, Mexico 1531. St. Juan opened his cloak to the bishop, a
cascade of roses fell from his tilma, revealing the
ornate details of the miraculous and mysterious image
of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
When Catherine Labouré was only a novice in the Rue
Our Lady of the du Bac convent, she was praying in the chapel late at
Miraculous Medal, night in 1830. At once, she saw a figure that she
Rue du Bac, Paris, believed was her guardian angel, who then escorted
France her to see Mary descend the chapel steps and sit in the
chair reserved for the spiritual director.
In 1846, two children named Maximin Giraud and
Mélanie Calvat were returning from a mountain in La
Our Lady of La Salette, France, after tending to their cows, when they
Salette, France saw “a beautiful lady” appear to them, weeping with her
face in her hands and “clothed in a white robe studded
with pearls; and a gold-colored apron; white shoes and
roses about her feet and high head-dress. She wore a
crucifix suspended by a necklace from her neck.”
The message of Our Lady was the conversion of the
entire world.

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 Our Lady of Lourdes, Likely one of the most beloved and well-known of the
France Marian apparitions, young Bernadette Soubirous, who
was uneducated and poor, saw a beautiful lady
standing near a wasteland where Bernadette and her
sister were gathering firewood. February 11, 1858 was
the first of several apparitions at Lourdes, where Mary
revealed herself to Bernadette as “The Immaculate
Conception,” a dogma of the Church that was entirely
unfamiliar to Bernadette. This added to the credibility
of the vision.
Our Lady of Fatima, While herding sheep near their village of Fatima in
Portugal 1916, Lucia Santos and her two cousins Jacinta and
Francisco Marto were witnesses of an angelic vision on
three occasions, who they explained was “The Angel of
Peace.” The angel prepared them to increase their
efforts at mortification and prayer. One year later, the
children saw a woman “brighter than the sun” who wore
a white mantle adorned in gold, holding a rosary.
Our Lady of the Mary appeared to her wearing a blue dress, saying,
Rosary of San “Do not be afraid. Receive this Rosary from my hands
Nicolas, Buenos and keep it forever and ever. You are obedient; I am
Aires, Argentina happy because of it. Rejoice, for God is with you,” and
handed Gladys a white rosary. Our Lady‟s messages
have mainly been portents of things to come if the
world does not convert, as well as revelations of things
to come.
APPLICATION/ASSESSMENT

1. Tabular Presentation
Instruction: Complete the table with information below. (You may use separate sheet for
this activity)
Dogma Teaching of What is the moral (The Role of Mary in
the Church challenge of this the life of Church)
Dogma to you?
1.Mother of God
2.Virgin Mother
3.Assumption
4.Immaculate
Conception
5.Mediatrix

2. Reflective writing.

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 Instruction: In not less than 200 words and not more than 250 words answer the
following questions:
Mary said YES to God and her YES is her total offering to God.
a. Why do we need to say „Yes‟ to God‟s invitation in our life?
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b. What make it so hard to say „YES‟ to what is right and to what God asks of us?
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3. Writing of Personal Prayer

In not less than 30 words and not more than 50 words, write your personal prayer to
God with the intercession of the Blessed Mother.
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