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Like Mary, the Church, too, is called to become a living offering pleasing to the Father. In the Eucharistic Celebration, along with the memorial of the death of Christ, we always receive, in a certain way, the gift of Mary, the gift the Crucified One gave in the person of John, (“Behold your Mother”: Jn 19,27). “It means accepting – like John – the one who is given to us anew as our Mother. It also means taking on a commitment to be conformed to Christ, putting ourselves at the school of his Mother and allowing her to accompany us. Mary is present, with the Church and as the Mother of the Church, at each of our celebrations of the Eucharist. If the Church and the Eucharist are inseparably united, the same ought to be said of Mary and the Eucharist” (JOHN PAUL II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 57). This is one reason why, since ancient times, the commemoration of Mary has always been part of the Eucharistic celebrations of the Churches of East and West 266