Henri de Lubac is a critical source for understanding the motherhood of the Church. Consider this nugget from The Splendor of the Church (Ignatius Press, pp. 57-58):There may be something like an infinite variety of harmonics in the sound, but it is always the same new song learned from the same Mother after the new birth: How many souls made new today have loved the Lord Jesus…All the members of the family of Christ recognize one another and call to one another. This is the common ground for the illiterate and the philosopher; here there is no essential difference between the monk in his cloister and him who bears the care of all the Churches, and the voice of the twentieth-century martyr in China becomes one with that of the second-century martyr in Syria. It is the Church’s tradition that sustains this tremendous harmony and her operative power that directs […]
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