Kính thưa qúy tu sĩ nam nữ, qúy ông bà và anh chị em,

 

Ðể cùng thông công trong việc truyền bá đức tin Công Giáo, con xin được thân tặng qúy giới chức có trách nhiệm trong việc dạy giáo lý Công Giáo cho con em Việt Nam hải ngoại bài: "Mẹ Maria Trọn Ðời Ðồng Trinh" bằng Anh Ngữ dưới đây. Xin Chúa chúc lành cho quý vị.

 

Trong Chúa và Mẹ Maria,

Giuse Phạm Văn Tuyến

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Mary, Our Ever-Virgin Mother

 

God never changes. If God changed, He could only change for the better or for the worse. Since God is perfect and is always perfect; He neither can become better nor worsen. This, however, does not in any way mean God cannot change His plan. He can change whatever in His plan He wants, but He himself never changes.

 

The Word is God and the Word never changes. Since the Word never changes, when the Word is spoken, as in Mat 1:23, "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel”, these spoken words will never change; therefore Mary, a virgin, is always a virgin. If Mary were a virgin for only a number of years in her life, then the Word would become untrue after these years had passed.

 

The Word, however, is the truth and is always true; so, Mary, a virgin, must always be a virgin. Moreover, as the Word was spoken, Mary, “a virgin shall conceive and bear a son”, not sons, these words will never change; thus Mary gave birth to only one son, Jesus. Though Mary gave birth only to one Son; through Baptism, many have become children of God by being incorporated into the Body of Christ.

 

Therefore, all those who belong to Christ’s body are also sons and daughters of Mary. So Christians, honor Mary, our evervirgin Mother. He who denied Mary’s virginity denied the words of God.

 

The Universal Church, the Body of Christ, teaches: 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 "Evervirgin".156 (Catechism of The Catholic Church 499, see CCC for foot notes 154, 155, and 156). 

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