Paragraph 6. MARY - MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
After her Son's Ascension, Mary "aided the beginnings of the Church by her
prayers."504 In her association with the apostles and several
women, "we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit,
who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation."505
. . . also
in her Assumption