THE ETERNAL GOD ENTERED OUR TIME AT THE “FULLNESS OF TIME” BY BECOMING MAN FROM THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
THE ETERNAL GOD ENTERED OUR TIME AT THE “FULLNESS OF TIME” BY BECOMING MAN FROM THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Summary/Abstract: In the present study, we propose to analyze and debate the teaching of the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Fathers about the Blessed Virgin Mary as the fruit of the spiritual life and the theological thinking of the Church. The Mother of God in the theology of the Holy Fathers, presents through her life and vocation the whole truth about the Most Holy Trinity and about the economy of incarnation the Son of the Most High from the Holy Spirit. The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, has a well-defined place in the world’s plan of salvation and in Orthodox Mariology. She was chosen from among all the nations so that at the “fullness of time” the Father’s Son would be born from her. This time marks par excellence the entrance of the Eternal One into our time, our history being redeemed and sanctified for eternity. Therefore, time, being filled with the mystery of Christ the Redeemer, definitively becomes the “time of salvation” of the world for all nations and for all generations. The expression “the fullness of time” shows the achievement of stewardship ordained and decided by the Most Holy Trinity, which primarily has in mind the person of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was chosen from eternity to be the Mother of the Father’s Son. The “fullness of time” also indicates the mysterious beginning of the journey of the Church, the mysterious Body of the Lord, in time and space. The time is therefore blessed by God, in the Church, emphasizing first of all the role of the Most Holy Theotokos in the act of our salvation. The Blessed Mother is the one through whom the Son of God entered history, to lead people through time to the Kingdom of Heaven.

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