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Full of Grace, Free to Choose: Tertullian on Eve, Mary, and the Yes That Changes Everything (Lectio Divina)
What if the whole of your redemption once depended on someone else’s willingness to say yes — and what if it still does, every day, in you? Tertullian saw in Mary’s answer to the angel a reversal of Eve’s fall, but the harder question is what made her yes trustworthy when the first one…
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The Mother of Spiritual Consent: Mary’s Yes and the Room It Makes for God (Lectio Divina)
Julian of Norwich saw something in Mary’s “yes” that most of us miss — that her smallness was never an obstacle to grace, but the very room grace needed. This reflection sits with that seeing, and with the no we keep offering instead, the one Mary’s whole life seemed to answer. What would it…