THE MATERNAL FACE OF GOD

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"God who is Father, but especially mother."
Pope John Paul I

The maternal face of God. The masculine-and the feminine.

God who is spirit, is revealed through his son...but through his mother, Mary, we see the feminine side of God. The masculine bears the rational, the judgemental...while the feminine reveals the relational--encouraging, present and loving.

As I listened to Fr. Jose Lavastida lead the novena to St. Ann, I knew I had been called there...
to embrace more completely, what has been carried in my heart...That the God man-the Jesus that I have come to love-is more fully understood in the feminine-as expressed through Mary.

The feminine as the paradigm- draws us closer to God...through the connectivity of our relationships...which inspire a deeper understanding of the meaning and the purpose of our lives.
There is nothing unusual or outrageous about this explanation...It all makes perfect sense...if we look in the mirror. As Pope John Paul II said, we can reason that we are created in the image and the likeness of God...because we are relational.

And as we see-throughout history, Mary, has set her sights on building relationships between God and man...and between all members of mankind...as God intended.

And so I find it simply fascinating, that the synergy between the distinctly different characteristics of men and women-in fact fuse the bond between God and humankind...the God who is spirit, but manifested for our benefit-through the masculine and the feminine.

It goes to show how mind blowing God really is...because there is no way-no words and no one description to capture the complete essence of the spirit we call God...But that is as it should be...because for now, we can only hope to honor that essence by transcending our humanity and living out our divinity through the examples set before us, by a power greater than we will ever fully comprehend.

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