Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church

8:00 AM Mass

Pope Paul VI wrote in his “Credo of the People of God” that Mary is “The Blessed Mother of God, the New Eve, Mother of the Church, continues in heaven her maternal role with regard to Christ’s members, cooperating with the birth and growth of divine life in the souls of the redeemed. We declare Mary Most Holy Mother of the Church, that is, of all the Christian people.”

Pope John Paul II affirmed Pope Paul VI’s writing by saying that Mary is the “mother of the entire Christian people, both faithful and pastors.”