Posted on 01/29/2003 7:54:53 PM PST by PAR35
SAN ANTONIO – Mary, the mother of God, was "a co-redeemer with Jesus Christ" because she "took on the suffering" of marginalization and liberated women, the keynote speaker told nearly 200 participants at the biennial conference of the Presbyterian Health, Education and Welfare Association.
In his keynote address Jan. 24, the Rev. Virgilio Elizondo sketched out a liberation theology scenario in which Mary, both as a Galilean and a woman, was marginalized within her society. Galilee, he said, was "a crossroads to everywhere, a center of nowhere" that had been invaded numerous times, much like San Antonio.
Elizondo, director of programming for Catholic Television in San Antonio and a professor and lecturer, is considered the father of Latino theology in the United States. Since the 1970s, he has researched the mestizaje experience – what happens when cultures collide and new cultures emerge.
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Her following the will of God, and suffering marginalization at the hands of the dominant society of her time, liberated women, he said. "I personally believe that Mary is a co-redeemer with Jesus. She took on the suffering."
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Yet!
How many red flags can 2 simple words raise?
Oh YIKES! The good father should have refrained on trying to articulate something he either doesn't understand or that he isn't able to explain clearly.
He's only human.
Right. Nutz.
Board of Trustees: St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas.
Laetare Medal: The highest honor of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 1997.
Johannes Quasten Award: For excellence and leadership in theological development presented by the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1997.
Incarnate Word College Pastoral Institute (San Antonio),
Visiting professor: Regina Mundi Pontifical Institute in Rome
Pallauch Distinguished Professor, St. Mary of the Lake University, Mundelein, Illinois;
http://www.theo.kuleuven.ac.be/clt/elizondo.htm
Didn't Paul award the first Laetare Medal to Silas in the Book of Ephesians? Maybe I dreamed it???
Appearently you are if you can't understand the simple message of the Gospel -- "Try and heap as many honors and awards on yourself as possible."
This priest gets it!
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