Mary is the Model of Christian Discipleship

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother” (Jn 19:26-27). At the foot of the cross, Mary, the mother of Jesus is given as mother to every single human being. Mary is the mother of all mankind. The New Testament traces Mary as a woman of limitless faith, obedience and humility who followed Jesus in a perfect way. Her heart was always centered on Jesus. She is the humble handmaid of God who surrendered herself completely into the hands of God. Without thinking of her fate, Mary said ‘yes’ to God. Thus, she became an example for those who wish to bear witness to Christ. By the four Marian dogmas (The Mother of God, The Perpetual Virginity of Mary, The Immaculate Conception of Mary, and The Assumption of Mary), Catholic Church teaches its faithful about Mary’s role in the salvation history. These dogmas help us to look more closely at Mary’s life. They teach us the reason why we can look at Mary as a model for Christian life. Like any other Christian, Mary is the example for consecrated people also. Mary is the first person who was consecrated unconditionally to God. As a sign of their consecration to God, Religious profess vows of obedience, chastity and poverty. Mary is the perfect example for Religious to live in the spirit of these three vows. She is our model and she will remain as an unique model for all those who desires to become disciples of Jesus

El 2000 visto desde el People’s Party

For a few years (1890–1896), the People’s Party was the “third party” of the United States and it changed the rhetoric of the two major parties into which it “dissolved” (especially in the case of the Democratic Party represented by William Jennings Bryan in 1896). The aim of the article is to test the political-narrative background which includes, among other productions in 1888, the first edition of Looking Backward. 2000–1887 by Edward Bellamy. One million copies of this book were sold and its readers created half a thousand nationalist clubs in the US. Caesar’s Column by Ignatius L. Donnelly’s (1890), author of the Preamble of the Party, was also widely sold.El People’s Party ha sido para algunos el “tercer partido” de los Estados Unidos (1890–1896), el cual cambió la retórica de los dos partidos principales en los que se “disolvió”, de forma más evidente en el caso del Partido Democrático, representado por William Jennings Bryan en 1896. El artículo se propone evaluar el background político-narrativo que cuenta, entre otras producciones en 1888, con la primera edición de Looking Backward. 2000–1887 de Edward Bellamy, la cual vendió un millón de copias y suscitó el nacimiento de medio millar de sociedades de tipo nacionalista en los USA, así como lo hizo la novela Caesar’s Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century de Ignatius L. Donnelly (1890), autor del Preámbulo del Partido.Libro publicado gracias al apoyo de la Facultad de Filología de la Universidad de Łódź, del Instituto de Estudios Románicos y de Stowarzyszenie Nauczycieli Akademickich na Rzecz Krzewienia Kultury Języków Europejskic