First, I’d like to say Happy Mother’s day to my mom and grandma (even though they don’t read this blog!). Second, I’d like to recognize Holy Mother, the Church, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and Mother of Christians. I’ve included Catholic theology from the Second Vatican Council on the topics.

Church as Mother (from Lumen Gentium):

The Church, further, "that Jerusalem which is above" is also
called "our mother". It is described as the spotless spouse of the
spotless Lamb, whom Christ "loved and for whom He delivered Himself up
that He might sanctify her", whom He unites to Himself by an
unbreakable covenant, and whom He unceasingly "nourishes and cherishes",
and whom, once purified, He willed to be cleansed and joined to Himself, subject
to Him in love and fidelity, and whom, finally, He filled with heavenly
gifts for all eternity, in order that we may know the love of God and of Christ
for us, a love which surpasses all knowledge. The Church, while on earth it
journeys in a foreign land away from the Lord, is life an exile. It seeks
and experiences those things which are above, where Christ is seated at the
right-hand of God, where the life of the Church is hidden with Christ in God
until it appears in glory with its Spouse.

Mary as Mother of Christians (also from Lumen Gentium):

The Virgin Mary, who at the message of the angel received the Word of
God in her heart and in her body and gave Life to the world, is acknowledged and
honored as being truly the Mother of God and Mother of the Redeemer. Redeemed by
reason of the merits of her Son and united to Him by a close and indissoluble
tie, she is endowed with the high office and dignity of being the Mother of the
Son of God, by which account she is also the beloved daughter of the Father and
the temple of the Holy Spirit. Because of this gift of sublime grace she far
surpasses all creatures, both in heaven and on earth. At the same time, however,
because she belongs to the offspring of Adam she is one with all those who are
to be saved. She is "the mother of the members of Christ . . . having
cooperated by charity that faithful might be born in the Church, who are members
of that Head."(3*) Wherefore she is hailed as a pre-eminent and singular
member of the Church, and as its type and excellent exemplar in faith and
charity. The Catholic Church, taught by the Holy Spirit, honors her with filial
affection and piety as a most beloved mother.