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OF GRACE MARIE, CONSOLATION VIVIFYING

"Theotokos"

"The only name Theotokos, Mother of God, contains the entire mystery of the economy of salvation," says St. John Damascene. The analogy between Eve, Mary and the Church goes back to Irenaeus and since, for the Fathers, Mary is the enemy of the Snake Woman, the Woman clothed in sun, the image of the Wisdom of God. If the Holy Spirit personalizes the holiness of God, the Virgin personalizes the human holiness. Linked in its very being to the Holy Spirit, Mary appears consolation and invigorating. Eve New Life that saves and protects all creation and Corruption therefore figure in the Church in her motherly protection.

Paul Evdokimov, 1901-1970, an Orthodox theologian in
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