MARY, OUR MOTHER

FROM MARK MALLETT:

The Great Yes

The Annunciation, by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1898; Philadelphia Museum of Art)

AND so, we have arrived at the days in which great changes are imminent. It can be overwhelming as we watch the warnings which have been given begin to unfold in the headlines. But we were created for these times, and where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more. The Church will triumph.

Along with Mary, the Church today is the Woman of Revelation laboring to give birth to a son: that is, the full stature of Christ, both Jew and Gentile.

The mutual relationship between the mystery of the Church and Mary appears clearly in the "great portent" described in the Book of Revelation: "A great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." —POPE JOHN PAUL II, Evangelium Vitae, n.103 (Rev 12:1)

Here again we are presented with the relational mystery of the Woman-Mary and the Woman-Church: it is a key to understanding the days we live in, and the importance of her extraordinary apparitions—a "great portent"—which have allegedly occurred now in hundreds of countries. It is also a key to understanding what our response should be in the face of this final confrontation between the Woman-Church and the anti-Church, the Gospel, and the anti-Gospel.

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