"Genetic moorings" are expressive imprints encoded in DNA. DNA intends and attends to the intentional wholeness of evolving energy/matter. "Maternal" DNA nurtures soul/body integrity and keeps in genetic memory what is sacred and worthy; this in-keeping by another word is "Sacrament", the instance of divinity in nature/nurture.
Isaiah famously said, "All flesh is grass". Another way of saying it is, "DNA is green (grass) before it is red (blood)". Bread is grass seed flour, the "trans-substantial" vitality of self-reflective life. Plastid DNA programs food arrangement (production), as in photosynthesis (chloroplasts); mitochondrial DNA regulates metabolic processing in cells; and nuclear DNA programs genotypical, phenotypical and chronological processes, as in growth, aging and the staged processing of all life.
Life's capacity for using sunlight to change water and carbon dioxide into starch (by way of chloroplasts and photosynthesis) is "maternal". Life's capacity for recovering energy from starch (by way of mitochondria) is "maternal"; and life's capacity for intending integrity (nurture) is "maternal".
Beginning in the ovum, every human cell has three maternally sourced strands of DNA; two are outside the cell-nucleus (in the cell plasma) and one is within the nucleus. Plastids are outside the nucleus and carry their own distinctive DNA; mitochondria are outside the nucleus and carry their own distinctive DNA. The nuclear component of genetic DNA is provided half from the nucleus of the ovum and the other half from a single sperm. The only male contribution to embryonic cells and the human person is the DNA component carried in the sperm; in the main, life is maternally sourced.
The Sacrament of Eucharist is Intelligent Design, the "sacred memory" of divinity Self-unfolding in vital integrity. Individually, we are expressions of Intelligent Design, of "sacred memory", female/male characterized, the intentional Sacrament of Life, the expression (presence) of divinity in humanity, humanity in divinity.
["Cultural Moorings" will be the subject of the next article.]
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