When we think of Mary, God becomes all together concrete

When we think of Mary, the Mother of God, God becomes all together concrete, alive, present in our midst, incredibly familiar, and accessible. Through this woman, the Incarnation of God, the Cross, the forgiveness of sins, the hope of eternal life for you and me, everything becomes credible and desirable. Without her, Christianity becomes vague, theoretical, hypothetical, odorless, moralizing, perhaps implausible, at any rate unattractive.

She brings to the whole story the royal seal of authenticity and of the kept Word. She is all in God by election and by grace, yet she remains one of us by her nature and by her race, and by her local color.

Rev. Fr. Bruckberger (1)

In Marie, Mère de Jésus-Christ (Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ), Ed Albin Michel, Paris, 1991.

(1) Raymond Léopold Bruckberger was a French Dominican priest, writer, translator, scriptwriter and director, born on April 10, 1907, died in Freiburg, Switzerland on January 4, 1998.