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creation as God intended it. It also exemplifies the two sides of the same coin of the spousal
mystery in Jesus and Mary, the New Adam and the New Eve. In the Incarnation, Mary’s “yes”
gives flesh, nurtures, and brings forth the total “being for others” that is the Son as the perfect
image of the Father. 103 As Jesus tells his apostles in the Gospel of John, “he who has seen me has
seen the Father…” 104 Therefore, in the one-flesh voice of Mary as the Woman and “mother of all
the living” 105 and Jesus as the new Adam who images the Father, God reveals the mysteries of
creation and spousal unity, both of which find their ultimate expression and fulfilment from the
beginning in motherhood and fatherhood.
Theological and Biological Dimensions
A shift in focus from the theological to the biological dimensions of sexuality and
parenthood reveals an internal consistency between the two, which should not surprise given
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Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity, p. 210.
John 14:9.
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CCC, 2679.
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