The Use of Analogy

CWR: Fatima to Vatican II: Mary, ‘Mother of the Church’ and Our Loving Mother by Matthew Tsakanikas, STD
Called to be the God-bearer, Mother to the Head of the Church, Mary was commissioned and called implicitly to be mother of every member born of the virginal womb of the Church in baptism.

Who among the Fathers of the Church called the Theotokos the "Mother of the Church," other than St. Ambrose? If Mary is the Mother of the Church, who is the Father? God the Father, presumably.

Is it better to understand this title primarily as referring to her spiritual maternity of all Christians, rather than anything ontological? The essay and others have attempted to link the two, but would a confusion of the meanings of the word "mother" result? Mother is not used univocally, as it is used of a human mother with reference to her children. And was it prudent or right for Paul VI to declare this title without consulting the separated apostolic churches?

Becoming a Matushka

Medieval Variants of the Saints in the Canon

NLM

The Use of Drone in the Roman Rite

NLM

Someone will complain that this is a Byzantinization.

Psalm Inscriptions

Sacraments

Creeping Towards Schism?

Rod Dreher: Is US Orthodoxy Going Pro-Gay?

Dionisius the Wise

Liturgical Colors

Good Advice?

Co-Redemptrix?

Sandro Magister: The Revolution of Francis Doesn’t Even Spare Our Lady. Here’s What He Would Make of Her

Mary as Co-Redemptrix: God’s Foolishness by Christopher Malloy

St. Peter in Rome

The Point of a Fast

Sure to Scandalize Some

Andrei Rublev

Interview with Peter Bouteneff

Christ is Born! Glorify Him!

The Genealogy of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Changing or Updating the Roman Canon?

The unilateral decision by the bishop of Rome for all of his patriarchate, without consultation with the bishops of his patriarchate, an the endorsement of the development in Latin piety towards St. Joseph. Did St. John the Baptist ever hold second place to the Theotokos in the Roman tradition?

From 2013: “With Blessed Joseph, Her Spouse”

Archpriest Sergy Baranov on Prayer

“When Christ Comes, Questions Disappear.” Part 1
A talk on acquiring a taste for prayer

Part 2