瑪利亞不只是十二宗徒那樣的宗徒。她是名符其實的宗徒，有其更深刻的意義，因為是她給了我們使徒耶穌，這是最崇高的聖召！而在耶穌身上有涵蓋一切的使徒工作。
Mary was not an apostle in the sense of the other Twelve, but she was an apostle in a higher sense. She was an apostle in that she gave us the apostle Jesus, in whom all the apostolates are comprised, the greatest vocation! (AP 1958/2, p. 244).
