St. Augustine
"But plainly (Mary) is, in spirit, Mother of
us who are His members, because by love she has cooperated so that the
faithful, who are the members of that Head might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is mother of that very
Head."
On Holy Virginity, 6,6
Hugo Rahner
This is the fundamental doctrine, that Mary is the
type or symbol of the Church, and everything we find in the Gospel about Mary
can be understood in a proper biblical sense of the mystery of the Church
Our Lady and the Church, p. 13
Henri de Lubac
Everywhere the Church finds in [Mary] her type and
model, her point of origin and perfection: ‘the form of our Mother the Church
is according to the form of his Mother.’
Our Lady speaks and acts in the name of the Church at every moment of
her existence . . . because she already carries the Church within her, so to
speak, and contains her in her wholeness, in her own person.
The Splendor of the Church, p. 320
Lumen Gentium
She [Mary] is hailed both as a pre-eminent, and
wholly unique member of the Church and as its type and outstanding model in
faith and charity…
By reason of the gift and role of divine Maternity
by which she is united with her Son, the Redeemer, and with His singular graces
and functions, the Blessed Virgin is also intimately united with the Church. As
St. Ambrose taught, the Mother of God is a type of the Church in the order of
faith, charity, and perfect union with Christ. For, in the mystery of the
Church which, itself, is rightly called mother and virgin, the Blessed Virgin
stands out in eminent and singular fashion as exemplar of both virgin and
mother…
The Church indeed—contemplating her hidden
sanctify, imitating her charity, and faithfully fulfilling the Father’s will by
receiving the word of God in faith—becomes a mother herself. By her preaching,
she brings forth to a new and immortal life, the sons who are born to her in
Baptism, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and born of God. She, herself, is a
virgin who keeps, whole and entire, the Faith given to her by her Spouse.
Imitating the Mother of her Lord, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, she
maintains integral faith, firm hope, and genuine charity with virginal purity…
The Mother of Jesus, in the glory which she possesses in body and soul in
heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected in
the world to come. Likewise, she shines forth on earth until the day of the
Lord shall come (cf. 2 Pet. 3:10), assign of certain hope and comfort to the
pilgrim People of God.
#53, 63, 64 and 68
Beata Maria Virgo Imago et Mater Ecclesiae
On November 21, 1964, at the end of the third
session of the Second Vatican Council, Paul VI, during the celebration of Mass,
declared our Lady "Mother of the Church, that is, of the entire Christian
people, both the faithful and their pastors, who call her their most loving
Mother," and decreed that "from now onward the whole Christian people
should give even greater honor to the Mother of God under this most loving
title." (AAS 56, 1965, p.1015)
Accordingly, many particular Churches and
religious families began to venerate the Blessed Virgin under the title of
"Mother of the Church." In 1974, to encourage Marian celebrations
during the Holy Year of Reconciliation (1975), this Mass was composed; it was
shortly afterwards inserted in the second editio typica edition of The Roman
Missal (Sacramentary) among the Votive Masses in honor of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. (MR, pp. 867-869)
Deus, misericordiarum Pater,
cuius Unigenitus, cruci afffxus,
beatam Mariam Virginem, Genetricem suam,
Matrem quoque nostram constituit,
concede, quaesumus, ut, eius cooperante caritate,
Ecclesia tua, in dies fecundior, prolis sanctitate
exsultet
et in gremium suum cunctas attrahat familias
populorum.
O God, Father of mercies, whose Only-begotten Son
suspended upon the cross, made the blessed Virgin Mary, his mother, our mother
as well, grant, we beseech you, that by her loving cooperation, Your Church,
being more fruitful day by day, may rejoice in the holiness of her offspring,
and may draw all the families of the peoples into her embrace.
At Lauds: Dom Anselmo Lentini, OSB
Quæ caritatis fulgidum
es astrum, Virgo , superis,
spei nobis mortalibus
fons vivax es et profluus.
Sic vales, celsa Domina,
in Nati cor piissimi,
ut qui fidenter postulat,
per te securus impetret.
Opem tua benignitas
non solum fert poscentibus,
sed et libenter sæpius
precantum vota prævenit.
In te misericordia,
in te magnificentia;
tu bonitatis cumulas
quicquid creata possident.
Patri sit et Paraclito
tuoque Nato gloria,
qui veste te mirabili
circumdederunt gratiæ.
Amen
What a shining star of love for those above you
are, O Virgin; to us mortals a living and flowing fount of hope.
So you win, O heavenly Lady, the heart of your
most holy Son that he, who faithfully asks through you, entreats confidently.
Your kindness not only grants help to those who
plead but more often
anticipate freely the requests of those who pray
to you.
In you is mercy, in you is generosity; you the
height of whatever goodness creatures can own.
Glory to the Father and the Paraclete and to your
Son, who wondrously adorned and surrounded you with grace. Amen
Vespers: Virgo Mater Eccelesiae
Virgo mater ecclesiae,
Aeterna porta gloriae,
Esto nobis refugium
apud patrem et filium.
Gloriosa Dei mater,
cuius Natus est ac pater,
ora pro nobis omnibus,
qui mem0riam ågimus.
Stella maris. lux refülgens,
stirps regålis, sancta parens,
roga Patrem
et Filium
ut det nobis Paråclitum.
Virgo clemens, virgo pia,
virgo dulcis, O Maria.
Exaudi preces omnium
Ad te pie clamantium.
Funde preces tuo Nato,
crucifixo, vulneråto,
pro nobis et flagellåto,
spinis puncto. felle potåto.
Alma mater summi regis,
lux et porta celsi cæli,
inclina te misérrimis
geméntibus cum låcrimis.
Virgin Mother of the Church,
eternal portal of glory,
be for us a refuge
with the Father and the Son.
Glorious Mother of God,
Whose Son is also your father,
Pray for us all,
Who observe this memorial.
Virgin
merciful, Virgin holy,
Virgin sweet, O Mary.
Hear the prayers of all
those crying obediently to you.
Pour out prayers to your Son,
Crucified and wounded,
Scour also for us,
Pierced by thorns, given gall as drink.
Gracious Mother of the high King,
Light and gate of high heaven,
Incline yourself to the wretched,
Groaning and weeping.
To the Father and Paraclete
To your Son be glory,
Whose gift it is that
You be called Mother of the Church. Amen.
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