The follwing text is from the encyclical, Ad diem illum, written by St. Pope Pius X: “Now the Blessed Virgin did not conceive the Eternal Son of God merely in order that He might be made man taking His human nature from her, but also in order that by means of the nature assumed from her He might be the Redeemer of men….Wherefore in the same holy bosom of his most chaste Mother Christ took to Himself flesh, and united to Himself the spiritual body formed by those who were to believe in Him. Hence Mary, carrying the Savior within her, may be said to have also carried all those whose life was contained in the life of the Savior. Therefore all we who are united to Christ, and as the Apostle says are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones (Ephes. v., 30), have issued from the womb of Mary like a body united to its head. Hence, though in a spiritual and mystical fashion, we are all children of Mary, and she is Mother of us all. Mother, spiritually indeed, but truly Mother of the members of Christ, who are we” (S. Aug. L. de S. Virginitate, c. 6).[2]
My thinking and writing: “Through Mary, the Holy Spirit formed Jesus within the vessel of her womb. The human cells of Mary were infused into the growing of our Lord. The growing divine cells of Christ, her son, were infused into his mother, Mary. Therefore, though lower in heavenly glory than her son, our brother, she was sealed as our divine Mother, for ever. She was also the first mortal soul of The Kingdom of God here and the Eternal Heaven, there. In recent centuries, because of her beatified nature, she has appeared here several times, to a select few many times, as well as to thousands on one occasion.”
