Wow, what a morning. Woke up and took my partner to work, filled out some job applications, and decided that I needed to finish out my morning by setting up a project I've wanted to do for a long time.
The Marian Menagerie is a specific exploration of Marian spirituality. It is not a place of every-day Catholic or Orthodox Marian devotion. It is an exploration of Mary in her aspects as the New Eve, Theotokos, Ever-Virgin, Mother of God. It is a space to explore her divine spirituality--that fullness of Grace that, for the Collyridians (more on them later) of the first few centuries CE, made Mary more than a woman. The purpose of this project is two-fold:
- Explore what it means to follow Mary's path to Christ independent of 2,000 years of established Christian Traditional teachings; and
- Present to you, the reader, devotions and resources that will help in tackling the rarely-mentioned-in-the-Bible Mother of God.
Mary has been called the perfect example of a Christian life, and it is this that informs the cosmology of anyone who is offering devotion to Mary as the expression of Divine Femininity. Christ is an ideal of perfect personhood, but Mary is existentially linked to Christ as Son of God and Messiah. Her perfect life means nothing if it is not striving for Christian perfection. So as the Gnostics expressed Masculinity as Active and Femininity as largely Passive, Christ's active death and resurrection fulfilled his mission and confirmed his divinity, and Mary's passive living showed us the way to the same fulfillment. She is the mother of us all, pointing the way to our happiness and fulfillment. Through Mary can we come to know and love Christ more. It is the ultimate goal of this project to show everyone that.
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