New ECVA exhibition for Advent: Mary, Mother Of Our Tribe

Posted Dec 4, 2012

[Episcopal Church Visual Arts] We invite you to share our newest exhibition during this season of Advent.

The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston, curator, writes “Mary is not the Mother Of Our Tribe, our human tribe, because she is some aloof figure from an artificial piety, set apart by myth and the imagined need for ritual purity. No, she is holy because she is one of us. She is our common mother, our everyday mother. She is a living person who has gone before us, a woman as human as you or I, who found a well of faith deeper and more life-giving than any we will ever discover on our own. She is grace. She is mercy. She is love: a gift to us from God, a healing presence in every culture and every time, speaking all of our languages, even if that language is silence.”

Read the entire statement here.


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