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“Pope Benedict XVI wrote that liturgy should be "the rediscovering within us of true childhood, of openness to a greatness still to come, which is still unfulfilled in adult life." The child at play is an image for the kind of openness to life that adults should cultivate--that, in fact, the liturgy is trying to help people discover. In church I am seeking my true childhood.”
― Motherhood: A Confession
― Motherhood: A Confession
“If one movement of mercy is in hoping for its own diminishment, another must be toward its own expansion. The way of charity that the child calls us to--that you call me to--is a way that constantly magnifies, not because your needs multiply but because you call me to be open to the needs of others.”
― Motherhood: A Confession
― Motherhood: A Confession
“And Mary and the Church both, like You, labor for the world. Mary's labor figures, reveals, and clarifies the Church's own labor. The Church, like Mary labors to bear divine presence into the world. The Church, like Mary, participates in Your new creation and hearkens to Your first. In the figure of Mary, creation, church, and pregnancy all entwine as images of one another. A pregnant woman's body, the Church expectant, and You, the womb of creation, all come together in the image of pregnancy.”
― Motherhood: A Confession
― Motherhood: A Confession
“Our healing will not come in a divine grace that reunites us, bringing you back into my womb for us to live by one wholly integrated will. My grace is to wait, to love you through the detours your life takes, even if you travel far from me; to be present to you in hope and prayer; and to bring you near Love by reflecting love to you. I can help birth your will into freedom and goodness chiefly by being reborn into such freedom and goodness myself.”
― Motherhood: A Confession
― Motherhood: A Confession
“You are so different from creation, in fact, that You transcend any difference with it. You are present to creation without being any less God by that presence. You are present to the lowest part of the earth, breathing it into life, without ceasing to be God. And You are always giving more of Yourself to creation, You who joined with creation in the incarnation, You who seek to draw all creation into Your Triune life. You are always and in all things seeking to realize the mystery of Your embodiment.”
― Motherhood: A Confession
― Motherhood: A Confession
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