Thesis: The mission of Mary and every woman is to receive and mediate life, love and holiness in humility, purity, tenderness and beauty.
The masculine task is distinct, complementary, and equivalent in dignity: to represent the Fatherhood of God in Truth, Authority and Strength by was of humility, purity, and gentle tenderness. The man is most fully himself when he is representing what is greater than himself: God, the Church, justice, the nation, truth. The woman is herself as herself. She carries within herself her own indescribable dignity, integrity, and loveliness without reference beyond herself, except to the Divine.
She is quintessentially a creature, and therefore primordially receptive: of life, of the love of God, of the person as spouse, friend, son and daughter.
She is mediator: a conduit by which each of us is touched by God with life, love, truth, peace, protection, joy.
She is, for each of us, source and nourisher of life.
She is, for each of us, the primal encounter with love.
She is, for each of us, our connection with the holiness of God: as son/daughter, brother/sister, spouse, mother. As our Blessed Mother Mary. As holy Mother the Church.
She is this in humility: without thought of herself, generous without bounds.
She is this in purity, reflective without corruption of the True, the Good and the Beautiful.
She is this in tenderness: gentle, peaceful, nurturing.
She is this in beauty: the attraction and radiance of interior truth and goodness.
Blessed are we among women. Blessed are we who are under the influence of women of loveliness, holiness, and love!
Mary our Blessed Mother, we place ourselves under the mantle of your holiness, your purity, your tenderness, your beauty and your love.
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