As though by a continuation of that motherhood which by the power of the Holy Spirit had given him life, the dying Christ conferred upon the ever Virgin Mary a new kind of motherhood—spiritual and universal—towards all human beings, so that every individual, during the pilgrimage of faith, might remain, together with her, closely united to him unto the Cross, and so that every form of suffering, given fresh life by the power of this Cross, should become no longer the weakness of man but the power of God.
Christus moriens, quasi maternitatem prosecuturus, qua, Spiritu Sancto operante, in lucem est editus, eidem Beatissimae semper Virgini Mariae novam maternitatem est largitus – eamque spiritalem et universalem –, quae cunctos homines complecteretur, ut quisque, in fide ambulans in terris, sibi una cum Illa, arcte coniungeretur usque ad Crucem et, Crucis vi, quivis dolor hoc modo recreatus ex infirmitate hominis in Dei virtutem mutaretur.vatican.va vatican.va