What does Mary have to say to the men and women of today? This is the question Hans Urs von Balthasar attempts to answer in the present volume (which was originally published in 1987). Taking the Book of Revelation as his starting-point, he shows that Mary is the archetypal incarnation of faith: She is — for both the individual believer and the Church as a whole — the source, model and measure of man’s unreserved answer to God’s revelation and will. This central insight then becomes, for Balthasar, the key to unlocking the meaning of the Marian dogmas and to disclosing the richness and depth of Catholic veneration of the Woman of the Apocalypse as the Mother of the Church, the Refuge of Christians, the Seat of Wisdom, and the living memory of the Church.