Book Description(from the Prologue):   Mary is the most loved woman on this planet. A powerful and loving mother who is loved and loves us all is not an invention of Catholicism. She has an ancient history in the collective psychic imagination of humankind. Only her names have changed over the centuries while her archetypal reality remains the same.
   
When we love, honor, and invoke Mary, we are preserving the most mysterious and precious truth about ourselves: she is what we are meant to become. She is not only an icon above us but also a mirror of us. The powers of Mary are the feminine powers in our souls. Her titles are our own names as they are spelled in heaven. This is what is meant by a divine potential, the gift of grace in our souls. It is up to us to activate it by our openness to grace and our actions of love in and for the world.
  
In fact, all the religious figures of our tradition are personifications of divine potentials and purposes in us. We now appreciate how our beliefs about God, Christ, Mary, and the saints were held in the safekeeping of faith until we were ready to acknowledge them as about us and in us. Having faith was how we were cherishing the divine life of the psyche. We could only have realized this now as the human potential movement is giving way to the divine potential movement.
  
The Litany of Loreto (Appendix) is a stirring summation of the highpoints of Mary’s place in the divine plan. In this sense, there are blessings in the sound of its words and graces in the images they summon up in us. They are our sounds and the images of our inner life. The titles speak directly to our hearts and even carry and contain our hearts. They are not only praises of Mary. They form a portrait of our essential Self, our intrinsic nature, the depth of our incarnate life, and of our redemptive purpose. Mary is the mother of Jesus and she is our mother because we are who he is.