This quote is taken from Henri de Lubac’s “Catholicism’ published in English by Ignatius press, originally published in French in 1947 as “Catholicism: les aspects soceaux de dogme” "The one metaphor of the bride conjours up two contrary visions, both founded on Scripture and both frequently portrayed; the wretched being on whom the Word took pity and whom he came to save from prostitution by his Incarnation; on the other hand the new Jerusalem, the bride of the lamb coming out of heaven from God, the daughter of strangers or the daughter of the king. On the one hand we see an assembly of sinners, a mixedherd, wheat gathered with the straw, a field with tares growing in it: “Corpus Christi mixtum” the ark which shelters clean and unclean animals, on the other we have the unspotted virgin, mother of saints, born on Calvary from the pierced side of Jesus, or else the very assembly she has made holy; “ecclesia in santis, virgo mater”...