G.K. Chesterton's abiding devotion to the Holy Virgin was not prompted by pious longing for motherly comfort - the usual canard about "sentimental Marianism." It sprang, instead, from his estimate of her as the Theotokos, the God-bearing mother of Jesus who is also mother of his Body called the Church.
Mary is both the prime exemplar of Christ and thus also the Mother of the Church. She is, as Brian Daley puts it, "a unique representative of the human participation in God's life that we call grace or divinization."
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