St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

Deacon Aaron Williams is an Anglican Deacon and a PhD Candidate at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family. Deacon Aaron speaks on the importance of biblical typology in understanding the significance of the Virgin Mary, Theotokos, Mother of God. As we contemplate our new identity in Christ, we include our spiritual mother, the Virgin Mary, as the archetypal Feminine, open, receptive, trusting, consenting to supernatural conception, reflecting the cosmic feminine reality. This is the nature of the Church, the Bride of Christ, reflecting a sacramental potency of God's image and likeness, male and female, now made one in Christ, the new humanity. Exodus 40:17-38 | Revelation 11:19- 12:6 | Luke 1:26-38 Mary illustrates the beauty of the feminine, the receptivity unto God's will ... "be it unto me according to thy will." Mary, a type of the Church, is identified as woman, mother, ark and temple. Mary's obedience made it possible for the obedient O