Cherishing Mary, Mother of God and Living Icon for our Time

And the angel, having come in, said unto her:
Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee:
Beloved are thou amongst women
— Gospel of Luke 1:28
O Love, O Love, In your beautiful cherishing love Prepare my way to you…
— Gertrude of Helfta, Spiritual Exercises, III, 379
Something extraordinary is going on in our time: we are living a metamorphosis, giving birth to a new field of consciousness that is radically original, beautiful and new. At the heart of this metamorphosis is the living presence of Mary. Her way of receiving God within herself, within her own womb, becoming Theotokosis – God bearer – allures.
Guided by Scripture and by mystics across the centuries whose lives and writings have been illumined by Mary, we will enjoy the gift of undisturbed Mary silence and spaciousness in communal contemplation. From the poetic and cosmic vision of the early Church, through the intimate feminine mysticism of the medieval women, to contemporary contemplative and evolutionary voices, we will behold Mary as the eternal living icon of Mother of God in beautiful cherishing Love, as she prepares our hearts anew.