The Mother of God & The Nativity Through the Eyes of Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna with Child and two Angels by Filippo Lippi

Filippino Lippi (Italian, Florentine, probably b. 1457–d. 1504). Madonna and Child, ca. 1485.

Join me as I walk with the Mother of God towards the heart of God because
Blessed Mary Ever-Virgin, Most Holy Mother of God is the True Theotokos, the God Bearer – Dei Genitrix.

LIPPI, Fra Filippo Madonna with the Child and Scenes from the Life of St Anne (detail) 1452. Oil on panel. Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

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As we begin this New Year let us accompany the Mother of God in following her Son, and fall deeper in love with our Saviour.

I want to focus on her vocation as the mother of Jesus; she is the “Theotokos,” the Holy Mother of God. The Church, at the Third Ecumenical Council in 431 AD, bestowed that name upon her emphasizing not only who Mary is but also who Jesus is – fully God and fully man. She was not the mother only of His human side but of God Himself in human form.