Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church, the day after Pentecost

Thank you, Dear Pope Francis, for this new and beautiful feast of 'Mary, mother of the Church’. Thank you for reminding us, on the day after Pentecost, that Mary was given to us as mother, by Jesus Himself. Mother for each one of us and mother of the entire Church, a motherhood that she lived in such a specific and essential way in the Upper Room … Holy Mary, we beseech you, teach us to always accept the Spirit and teach us to love the Church, bride of your Son, with an ever-greater love.