Mary, Mother of the Church, Mary: Day 164

Mary, Mother of the Church

St. Louis de Montfort teaches us that Mary is our mother in the order of grace, the Mother of the Church. Since she’s the mother of Christ, the Head of the Mystical Body, then she’s also the mother of all that Body’s members.

Just as in the natural and bodily generation of children there are a father and a mother, so in the supernatural and spiritual generation there are a Father, who is God, and a mother, who is Mary. All the true children of God have God for their Father and Mary for their mother. Whoever doesn’t have Mary for his mother doesn’t have God for his Father.

The first human born in Mary is the Man-God, Jesus Christ. The others are mere men and women, the children of God and Mary by adoption. If Jesus Christ, the Head of the human race, is born in her, then the members of that Head ought also to be born in her, as a necessary consequence.

One and the same mother doesn’t bring forth into the world the head of a child’s body without its members, or the members without the head. This would be a monster of nature. In the same way, in the order of grace the Head, Jesus Christ, and the members of his Body, the Church, are born of the same mother. If a member of the Mystical Body of Jesus were born of any other mother than Mary, who has produced the Head, he would not be a member of Jesus Christ, but simply a monster in the order of grace. —St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .
Do I see Mary as my spiritual mother? What might it mean for my devotional life to approach her daily as my mother?

CLOSING PRAYER
From a prayer of Pope St. John Paul II: To you, mother of the human family and of the nations, we confidently entrust the whole of humanity, with its hopes and fears. Do not let it lack the light of true wisdom. Guide its steps in the ways of peace. Enable all to meet Christ, the Way and the Truth and the Life.

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