Divine light is her hope, especially in the deepest night.

Mary’s virginity is a choice that leads to a new kind of fruitfulness born of love that is human and inclusive and deeply spiritual.

She is remembering now what she has stored up in her heart all these years. It began the first time she experienced the Light that is God.

Of all the titles and epithets of Mary, the ones that make her most human and real to us are those relating to her motherhood.

She suspected that would be her role for all eternity: mother, woman, the completion of the love of the mysterious faces of God.

We experience our lives through all of our senses, and all of that experience is conveyed in story, which is more than ideas and beliefs.