The Holy Spirit forms the flesh of the Son of God in the womb of a woman and generates the Church in the womb of the Cenacle in Jerusalem. Each time the Third Person of the Trinity gives life to something new, Mary is present. Just as the Mother cannot be disassociated from the Son, so too the story of Mary and that of the Church are indissolubly united through the action of the life-giving Spirit.
The Church depends continually on the effusion of the Spirit and this effusion becomes operative if he is not grieved (cf. Eph. 4:30). In other words, it becomes operative if one says to him: “Here I am,” like the Virgin of Nazareth did. Adoration and silence, typically Marian attitudes, transform the Christian community into a creature of the Spirit.
