"What would our homes, our families be without the mother's presence?"
I love that sentence. It applies also, so aptly to our "Mother" church that excludes women from that place with the father at the fullness of the table.  We survived as church by the "male" mode of stricture, structure and statement.  "Mother"sat quietly. That age is gone. The "father" church, as in society, can no longer control we "growing-ups". It cannot survive ( let alone thrive) through  edict.  So, we need the mother more than ever. Not to replace the father, not to compete with father, not to be in power, but to be for us, for family in Christ.

"Mother Church" that false metaphor of male prerogative, must become a "parent" church.