Today's meditation: Mary and the Church

The Son of God is the firstborn of many brothers; being unique by nature, through grace he associated many, so that they may be one with him. In fact, "to all who accepted him, he gave power to become children of God" (Jn 1:12). Therefore, having become the son of man, he made many children of God. He is therefore associated with many of them, he who is unique in his love and power; and they, although many by carnal generation, are with him only one by divine generation.
Christ is unique, because Head and Body form a whole. Christ is unique because he is the son of one God in heaven and one mother on earth.
We have many children and one son together. In fact, as Head and members are together one son and many children, so Mary and the Church are one and many mothers, one and many virgins. Both mothers, both virgins, both conceive by the work of the Holy Spirit without concupiscence, both give sinless children to the Father. Mary without any sin generated the Head to the body, the Church in the remission of all sins gave birth to the body to the Head.
Both are mothers of Christ, but neither generates the whole without the other.
Therefore rightly in the divinely inspired Scriptures what is said in general of the virgin mother Church, is meant individually of the virgin mother Mary; and what is said in a special way of the virgin mother Mary, must be referred in general to the virgin mother Church; and what is said of one of the two, can be understood indifferently of both.
Even the single faithful soul can be considered as Bride of the Word of God, mother daughter and sister of Christ, virgin and fruitful. It is therefore said in general for the Church, especially for Mary, in particular also for the faithful soul, by the same Wisdom of God who is the Word of the Father: Among all these I sought a place of rest and in the inheritance of the Lord I settled (see Sir 24:12). Inheritance of the Lord in a universal way is the Church, in a special way Mary, in a particular way every faithful soul. In the tabernacle of the womb of Mary Christ he lived for nine months, in the tabernacle of the faith of the Church until the end of the world, in the knowledge and love of the faithful soul for eternity.

of Blessed Isaac of the Star, abbot