All of humanity flowers in Mary. Mary is the flower of humanity. She, the Unstained, is the flower of the stained.
Sinful humanity flowered in Mary, the All Beautiful!
And just as the red flower is grateful to the small green plant, with its dirt-covered roots, which made her flower; so too is Mary grateful to sinners like us who constrained God into thinking of Mary.
We owe our salvation to her; she owes us her existence.
How beautiful Mary is! She is creation in flower, creation turned beautiful. Mary is all of creation in flower, 1ike the foliage covering the tree. From his heavenly heights, God fell in love with this flower of flowers. He pollinated her with the Holy Spirit, and Mary gives to heaven and earth the fruit of fruits: Jesus.
Chiara Lubich
Mary, The Transparency of God
New City London 2003, pp. 89-90