The image of the Blessed Virgin that permeates the Christian faith is a powerful force for our spiritual understanding, balancing the industrious and forceful male principal of classic biblical imagery. For the universe is indeed made up of equivalent forces: procreative and dynamic as well as receptive, nurturing, passive. We perceive the Mother of God as our sensitive and loving advocate; in this do we have a fuller representation of the Divine reality.
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