Is the desire for a spiritual mother natural to mankind?
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In his book, First Comes Love, Scott Hahn outlines a concept of God that is in concert to this question. He cites a writing of Pope John Paul II.
“In the light of the New Testament it is possible to discern how the primordial model of the family is to be sought in God Himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of His life. The divine “We” is the eternal pattern of the human “we”, especially of that “we” formed by the man and woman created in the divine image and likeness…God in His deepest mystery is not a solitude, but a family, since He has in Himself fatherhood, son-ship and the essence of the family, which is love.”
Hahn concluded:
“Now we must be very careful readers here, because many people understand these statements precisely backward, which mans they don’t understand them at all. The Pope was not saying that God is like a family. He was not presenting the family as a cozy, homey metaphor for the Trinity. He said that God is a family. Thus, it would be more accurate to say that my wife, my kids, and I are like a family than to say God is like a family. God is not like a family. He is a family. From eternity, God alone possesses the essential attributes of a family, and the Trinity alone possesses them in their perfection. Earthly households have these attributes, but only by analogy and imperfectly.”
God's creation tells us that a Father has a Wife and a Son has a Mother as well as a Father. The Holy Spirit bears fruit from the will of God the Father and the First-Fruit is Jesus Christ.
The Hebrew word “Ruwach” is a feminine noun, therefore when Jesus spoke of the Holy Ruwach He understood that spirit by nature is feminine.
The Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary, which is eternally pregnant with the will of God the Father. Just as Mary the mother of the incarnation we also through the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit bear out the will of God the Father in our lives, which is Jesus Christ.
So "yes", The Holy Spirit is Mother, the Church is Mother and Mary is Mother!
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