for itself, but in reference to its preeminent realization in Mary. But all that is fulfilled in Mary and in the mysteries of her life is fulfilled with an eye to her being the Theotokos. As Theotokos, Mary realizes, preeminently among all men, this predestination in Christ. She is the paradigm of every human being, man and woman. Woman, so to speak, becomes the “type” of the person who adheres to the decision of the Father to predestine all men in Christ, of the human being who is fully such when