Key to the present study is St.

Gregory Nazianzen,
whose Marian doctrine inspired Benedict XVI at a
2007 public audience: Mary, who gave human
nature to Christ, is true Mother of God and, in view
of her highest mission, was prepurified, as if a
distant prelude of the Immaculate Conception.
As Pope Francis intensifies efforts to resolve differences between Orthodox and Catholics, Fr. Kappes
research clarifies Our Ladys central role in these
efforts.
Eastern theology has laid great deal of emphasis to the katharsis or purification that Mary
underwent at the moment of the Annunciation.
It will be enough for us to recall here the moving commentary of St. Gregory Palamas on this
point in one of his homilies: You are already holy, O Virgin, says the angel to Mary. But the
Holy Spirit will come upon you anew and prepare you for the divine mystery by an increase
of grace.
(John Paul II, homily at Ephesus 30 November 1979)
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