“...particularizing the female principle in a single individual.”
Can you elaborate on that a little? I’m not quite sure what that means.
I’m not sure I can say it much better. I was raised Protestant so I have no childhood understanding of who Mary is in the grand scheme of things. Luke I says more to Catholics than it does to Protestants, apparently.
So the “masculine” principle on display surrenders generativity, which is, of course, one of the essences of masculinity. Now, if that is a sacrifice for the Kingdom, it is good and holy, but it appears that there are many men among this body for whom forgoing relations with a woman is not a sacrifice.