Virgin Mary
glossary_termThe mother of Jesus, who is honored as "ever-virgin" for her perpetual virginity
Catechism Passages
Passages ranked by relevance to Virgin Mary, from most closely related outward.
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CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary's real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to the Son of God made man. 154 In fact, Christ's birth "did not diminish his mother's virginal integrity but sanctified it." 155 and so the liturgy of the Church celebrates Mary as Aeiparthenos, the "Ever-virgin". 156