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Mary has been given many titles like Mystical Rose or this one from the Litany To Our Lady Of Combermere, Golden Door To the Secret Chambers Of The King. A list of the most widely used ones can be found in the oldest and best known Litany to the Virgin Mary, the Loreto Litan y.  Each title guides us into the mystery of Mary, a virgin, conceiving Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. In this article I’ll focus on Mother of the Eucharist and why this title fully reveals the Incarnation, that Jesus, the second person of the Holy Trinity (God the Son) became fully human in the womb of the virgin Mary, fully human meaning the body and blood of Christ the Son, the Eucharist. The Word Became Flesh   Recall the opening of St. John’s Gospel: In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. (John 1:1,14)   The Catechi