Automatic translation from Italian, under review.
The “agave”, which bears a single flower and then dies, can be a splendid image of God’s plan for the people of Israel, for the Church, for humanity.
The faith of the Jewish people is expressed and fulfilled in Mary. The faith of the Church culminates in Our Lady of Sorrows, who, at the foot of the cross, guards the hope of the nascent Church.
The culmination of the aspirations and expectations of humanity finds its highest expression in Mary; she is the one flower that blossomed from the remnant of Israel; in her the Church offers the Redeemer her “one flower”; in her humanity of all times sums up, in a “single flower, the fulfillment of its intrinsically religious destiny.
As the agave dies in flowering and only then reaches the full splendor of its beauty, so the history of Israel is fulfilled and contained in Mary, in her essential relationship with Jesus, with Christ, with the Church.