The living Spirit and liturgical calendar
As truly as God is our father, so just as truly is he our mother.
As truly as God is our father, so just as truly is he our mother.
In our father, God Almighty, we have our being; in our merciful mother we are remade and restored. Our fragmented lives are knit together and made perfect man. And by giving and yielding ourselves, through grace, to the Holy Spirit we are made whole.
It is I, the strength and goodness of fatherhood. It is I, the wisdom of motherhood. It is I, the light and grace of holy love. It is I, the Trinity, it is I, the unity. I am the sovereign of goodness in all things. It is I who teach you to love. It is I who teach you to desire. It is I who am the reward of all true desiring.
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