Ave Maria Meditations
Our Lady is united to Jesus by a double bond: First of all because, when she accepted the Angel’s message, she united herself intimately to God’s will in a way we can scarcely comprehend. At the same time she acquired a spiritual motherhood…
Saint Augustine has pointed out that maternity according to the flesh would have been of little avail to Mary if she had not first conceived Christ, and in still more fortunate way, in her heart and only afterwards in her body. Mary becomes the Mother of Jesus when she conceived Him in her womb, is His Mother when she looks after Him, feeds and protects Him, just as every mother does with her child…
Mary is the Mother of Jesus according to the flesh, and she is also the first among all those who hear the word of God and keep it in its completeness.
From ‘In Conversation with God’
