Gero Crucifix
Germany
1000 AD
As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother... Jesus is our true Mother in nature by our first creation and he is our true Mother in grace by his taking our created nature... The Mother's service is nearest, readiest, surest; nearest, because it is most natural, readies because it is the most loving, and surest because it is truest... We know that all our mothers bear us for pain and for death... But our true Mother Jesus, he alone bears us for joy and for endless life... The mother can give her child to suck of her milk but our precious Mother Jesus can feed us with himself and does, most courteously and tenderly with the Blessed Sacrament, which is the precious food of true life... The Mother can lay her child tenderly to her breast but our tender Mother Jesus can lead us easily into his blessed breast through his sweet open side and show us there a part of the godhead and of the joys of heaven, with inner certainty of endless bliss... To the property of motherhood belong nature, love, wisdom and knowledge and this is God. For though it may be so that our bodily bringing to birth is only little, humble and simple in comparison with our spiritual bringing to birth, still it is he who does it in the creatures by whom it is done.
Julian of Norwich
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