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Não é mãe de nossa Cabeça, o Salvador segundo o espírito, de quem, por outro lado, é espiritualmente filha, porque também ela está entre os que creram nele e que são chamados com razão filhos do Esposo; mas certamente Maria é Mãe de seus membros, que somos nós, porque cooperou com sua caridade para que nascessem na Igreja os fiéis, membros daquela Cabeça, da que efetivamente é Mãe segundo o corpo (De s. virg. 5, 5-6, 6).
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R.- Besides suggesting the reading of the IX Book of the Confessions in relation to Saint Monica, I transcribe this passage of the Bishop of Hippo as the best response to all these questions: “Mary, therefore, by doing the will of God, physically is only the Mother of Christ, but spiritually, she is the mother and sister as well. For this reason, only this woman is both mother and virgin, not only in the spirit, but also in the body. She is not spiritually the mother of the our Head, the Savior, whose daughter, rather, she is spiritually, because she is also among those who believed in Him and are called justly children of the Bridegroom; but certainly, Mary is the mother of his members, who is ourselves, because she cooperated with her charity in order that the faithful would be born in the Church. They are members of that Head, whose mother actually is Mary in the physical level. (De s. virg. 5, 5-6, 6) It clearly speaks of Mary as Mother of the Church, as Paul VI proclaimed, citing that passage of Saint Augustine, at the end of Second Vatican council. After the divine motherhood is the greatest glory of Mary. If in the theme of the Immaculate Conception, he is fourteen centuries ahead, in this other theme, he takes lead for fifteen centuries.
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