"Mary is called Mother. And when is Mary not a mother? "The gathering together of the waters he called seas (maria)" (Gen. 1:10). Was it not she who conceived in her single womb the people going out from Egypt, that it might come forth a heavenly progeny reborn to a new creation, according to the words of the Apostle: "Our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. And all in Moses were baptised, in the cloud, and in the sea" (Exod. 15:20-21)? That Mary might always leaad the way in man's salvation, in her own right, she went with a canticle before that same people, whom the generating waters had brought forth to light...This is a name [Mary] that is kin to prophecy, salutary to the reborn, the hallmark of virginity, the adornment of modesty, the sign of chastity, a sacrifice to God, the virtue of hospitality, fellowship in holiness. With reason, then, is this maternal name that of Christ's Mother. We have said why the Mother is a bride, why Joseph is a spouse, why Mary has the maternal name, to show that everything about the birth of Christ has a mystical significance."
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Mother of the Church
Mother of the Church (in Latin: Mater Ecclesiae) is a title given to Mary in the Catholic Church, as officially declared by Pope Paul VI in 1964. The title first appeared in the 4th century writings of Saint Ambrose of Milan, as rediscovered by Hugo Rahner. It was also used by Pope Benedict XIV in 1748 and then by Pope Leo XIII in 1885. Pope John Paul II placed it in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Pope Francis inserted a memorial by this title into the Roman Calendar, celebrated annual
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