Gen 3:15/mary Sharing Victory

[P3chrmd]

How can I try to explain to someone what exaclty Mary sharing in Jesus' victory of Satan means? They asked me how Mary could share in his victory...whats the best way to answer? And how it relates to Gen 3:15

[Cure of Ars]

I would say that all Christian's because we are a part of the body of Christ and because share in his sufferings (Col 1:24) will also share in Jesus' victory.

But Mary did participate in Jesus’ victory in a unique way because through her yes she brought Christ the victor to the world and because by God’s grace she did not know sin.

[quote]
410 After his fall, man was not abandoned by God. On the contrary, God calls him and in a mysterious way heralds the coming victory over evil and his restoration from his fall. This passage in Genesis is called the Protoevangelium ("first gospel"): the first announcement of the Messiah and Redeemer, of a battle between the serpent and the Woman, and of the final victory of a descendant of hers.

411 The Christian tradition sees in this passage an announcement of the "New Adam" who, because he "became obedient unto death, even death on a cross", makes amends superabundantly for the disobedience, of Adam.305 Furthermore many Fathers and Doctors of the Church have seen the woman announced in the Protoevangelium as Mary, the mother of Christ, the "new Eve". Mary benefited first of all and uniquely from Christ's victory over sin: she was preserved from all stain of original sin and by a special grace of God committed no sin of any kind during her whole earthly life.306
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[url="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/410.htm"]http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/410.htm[/url]

[phatcatholic]

here is the best article i have read on the subject:

--[url="http://www.lumengentleman.com/content.asp?id=47"][b]Who Shall Crush? Gen 3:15 and the Woman[/b][/url]

make sure that you read the whole thing.

[Theoketos]

And then?

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='Theoketos' date='Sep 20 2004, 11:36 PM'] And then? [/quote]
what do u mean?

[Theoketos]

[quote name='phatcatholic' date='Sep 14 2004, 08:18 PM'] here is the best article i have read on the subject:

--[url="http://www.lumengentleman.com/content.asp?id=47"][b]Who Shall Crush? Gen 3:15 and the Woman[/b][/url]

make sure that you read the whole thing. [/quote]
After I read it what do I do,

what dooo I doooo?

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='Theoketos' date='Sep 23 2004, 09:02 PM'] After I read it what do I do,

what dooo I doooo? [/quote]
go and use your knowledge to defend the marian interpretation of the verse

[MorphRC]

Isnt this wrong, since the Latin had some type of gender sense, which is hard to tell if its him or her.