Mary Mother of the Church

Today is the feast of Our Lady, Mother of the Church, the Monday after Pentecost, the birthday of the Church. In Acts of the Apostles, we read of the Apostles speaking everyone’s language with one message:

“When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.” Acts 2:1-6

This is the first time since the tower of Babel that all of humanity is united now in language, due to the gift of the Spirit which now constitutes and animates the Church. This is why the Church is Catholic, meaning universal, and only in the Church can mankind be one.