Mater Ter Admirabilis
The Latin title Mater Ter Admirabilis ( MTA ), or its German translation, Dreimal wonderful mother (also mother three times wonderful ) is an honorary title for the Mother of God Maria , which was coined in 1604 by Jesuit Father Jakob Rem . Today the Marian title is known mainly through the Schoenstatt Movement .
Emergence
The title goes back to the veneration of an image of Mary by Father Jakob Rem and the members of the Catholic academic congregation Colloquium Marianum in Ingolstadt in the 17th century. The picture is a copy of the icon of the Salus populi Romani and has been in the Konviktskapelle since 1571 and in the Minster since 1881 . On April 6, 1604, Rem recognized in a vision during the prayer of the Lauretanian Litany that the Blessed Mother particularly liked the invocation "Mater admirabilis" (Latin for wonderful mother ). From then on he had this invocation repeated three times, so that over time the image of the Virgin was given the name Mater ter admirabilis . According to one possible interpretation, this relates wonderfully three times to the designation of Mary as Mother of God , Mother of the Redeemer and Mother of the Redeemed .
The veneration of the Mater ter Admirabilis continued to spread through the Marian Congregations . The diocese of Constance was consecrated in 1683 to "Maria, the three times wonderful mother", the diocese of Eichstätt on October 11, 1942.
Schoenstatt Movement
Since 1915 Mary has also been venerated in the Schoenstatt Movement as "Mater Ter Admirabilis". The boarding school sodals joined through the covenant of love with St. Mary and resolved to strive for holiness and, with the help of the Blessed Mother , to turn the place where it was founded, a small, abandoned cemetery chapel (today the original shrine) into a real place of pilgrimage. In doing so, they were guided by the devotion to Mary founded by Jakob Rem in Ingolstadt. One of the best-known students of Kentenich and admirers of the MTA was the Sodale Josef Engling , who admired the MTA very much and died as a soldier in the First World War with a reputation for holiness .
When Kentenich was given a picture of Mary with the baby Jesus ("Refuge for sinners"), the young people are said to have not been very enthusiastic about the style of the picture, but nevertheless gratefully accepted it. Within a short time they are said to have “fallen in love” with the charisma of the painting that they mounted on the high altar in their original shrine . They named St. Mary as in Ingolstadt Mater Ter Admirabilis and the picture became known as the MTA picture of the Schoenstatt Movement.
Today the MTA image is considered to be the most important symbol of the Schoenstatt Movement and for many Catholics as an image of grace . It can be seen as an altarpiece in every Schoenstatt chapel and in the Schoenstatt families who are trying to live and discover a more modern way of the Catholic faith , it is customary to have a more contemporary form of the " Lord's corner " in the house: the home shrine , the usually also contains the MTA image.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rita Haub , Isidor Vollnhals (ed.): Pater Jakob Rem SJ . 400 years Three times wonderful mother in Ingolstadt. German Province of the Jesuits, Munich 2004.
- ↑ a b c Joachim Schmiedl: Three times wonderful mother (Mater ter admirabilis) . In: Hubertus Brantzen (Ed.): Schoenstatt Lexicon: Facts - Ideas - Life . 2nd unchanged edition. Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 2002, ISBN 3-87620-195-0 ( moriah.de ).
- ↑ Franz Seraph Hattler : The venerable Father Jakob Rem from the Society of Jesus and his Marian Conference. 1881, pp. 140-147.
- ↑ A member of the Schoenstatt Movement is known as a “Sodale” (from Latin sodalis : companion, friend, comrade).
- ↑ archiv.schoenstatt.de accessed on August 2, 2014.