BREASTFEEDING MADONNAS
Iba't ibang anyo ng Virgen de la Leche
❝ Like the Mother of God of tenderness, from which it developed, the Milk-giver image is shadowed by the Cross. The suckling Christ lying upon His Mother suggests a sacrifice on an altar. Both milk and blood were symbols of Christ's passion.❞
— St. Clement of Alexandria
❝ The mystery of the Incarnate God, is concentrated with unique intensity in the symbol of Mary's milk.❞
— Maria Warner
❝ The Blood of Grace is like the milk that I drank from my Virgin Mother.❞
— Our Lord to St. Mechtild of Magdeburg, 13th Century
❝ It is in this way, that the mystery of the Divine economy, is accepted by all. So liberation theologians celebrate the sisterly solidarity of a woman of the people who gestates and lactates as other woman do.❞
— St. John Chrysostom
❝God bless Your Mother--the womb from which You came, and the breasts that nursed you!❞
— Luke11:27
❝Sleep Holy Babe upon Thy Mother's breast!
Great Lord of earth and sea and sky.
How sweet it is to see Thee lie.
In such a place of rest.❞
— Sleep Holy Babe, Traditional Christmas Hymn
Words by Rev. Edward Caswell
Music by Rev. John B. Dykes
❝It is the boast of the Catholic religion that it has the gift of making the young heart chaste; and why is this but that it gives us Jesus Christ for our food, and Mary for our nursing Mother?❞
—John Henry Cardinal Newman
❝From the God of your father who helps you, And by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb. ❞ --Genesis 49:25
❝The Newborn baby has only 3 demands- They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breast, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.❞
—Dr. Grantly Dick
❝But Hannah did not go up; for she said unto her husband, So soon as the child shall be weaned, then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and abide there for ever. And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth good in thy eyes; tarry until though has weaned him; only may the Lord fulfill his word. So the woman remained behind, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.❞
—Samuel I 1:22-23
❝Yet Zion said, The Eternal hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, not to have mercy on the son of her body? yea, should these even forget, yet would I not forget thee. ❞
—Isaiah LI, 14-16
❝Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her. For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.❞
—Isaiah 66:10-11
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