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Word, that is, the Word and substantial
Image of the Father, became incarnate; without losing his
divine nature he has assumed human nature. 480 Jesus Christ is true God and true man, in the
unity of his divine person; f or this reason he is the
one and only mediator between God and men. 481 Jesus Christ possesses two natures, one divine
and the other human, not confused, but united in the one
person of God’s Son. 482 Christ, being true God and true man, has a
human intellect and will, perfectly attuned and subject to
his divine intellect and divine will, which he has in common
with the Father and the Holy Spirit. 483 The Incarnation is therefore the mystery of the
wonderful union of the divine and human natures in the one
person of the Word. Paragraph 2. ‘Conceived by the Power of
the Holy Spirit and Born of the
Virgin Mary’ I. Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit...
484 The Annunciation to Mary inaugurates ‘the fullness
of time’,”9 the time of the fulfilment of
God’s promises and preparations. Mary was invited to
conceive him in whom the ‘whole
her question, ‘How can this be, since I
know not man?’, was given
you.”2’
of Life’, is sent to sanctify the womb
of the Virgin Mary and divinely fecundate it, causing her to
conceive the eternal Son of the Father in a humanity drawn
from her own. 486 The Father’s
only Son, conceived as man in the womb of the
Virgin Mary, is ‘Christ’, that is to say, anointed
by the Holy Spirit,
festation of this fact takes place only
progressively: to the shepherds, to the magi, to John the
Baptist, to the disciples.’23 Thus the |
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