Mater Ecclesiae
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.
tu0que Nato gloria,
cuius vocåris münere
mater beåta Ecclésiæ.
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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