Just as a child of flesh enters into this world through the womb of Woman, so too a child of spirit enters into the Church through the womb of the Spirit.
The child of flesh and the child of spirit is the one same child of God, a person of body and soul, birthed and baptized. This is why every baptismal font must remind us of the womb of Woman AND the womb of the Spirit. For life in the spirit begins through being born through the womb of the Spirit just as life in the flesh begins through being born through the womb of Woman.
The Spirit is the spirit of Life and Mary, woman of Woman, is the Mother of the Church. For Mary in her perfect faith said yes to God's plan of Salvation. Like no other person and according to divine providence, Mary was born of flesh and born of spirit from her beginning. Thus we believe in her immaculate conception because she from conception is full of grace. Mary truly is the New Eve, the Woman of Creation, who brought forth the Son of God into this world for the Salvation of all, just as the Church is called forth to do.
The Church looks to Mary, Mother of the Church, on how to bring forth new life in the Spirit, but not because of human efforts. The Church can bring forth life in the Spirit only because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which makes us, the Church, the Temple of God. To see the actions of the Church as anything but of feminine origin denies her life-giving mission. The Church is Mother because she is that vessel through whom all who are just of flesh are born again in the Spirit. This is why the Church recognizes a person as a child of God only after baptism. For Christ himself said that only those born of both water and Spirit may enter the kingdom of God (see John 3:5).
The Son of Man is the One who gives us the Way for every child of God to be fully human, that is full of grace. Mary was simply the first fully human according to God's plan, the New Eve.
Though the Son of Man is first the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who is fully human and fully divine, is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He was sent by the Father to give us the Spirit, through whom all children become of God, that is, become fully who are to be, full of grace according to His plan.
May we all cherish the womb of Woman so we may cherish the womb of the Spirit. In the Womb, may all be born and baptized in the one Spirit.
