Our Baptismal Grace Starts with You, O Mary. Happy Birthday, Dear Mother!: The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8, 2020

 J.M.J.

From Our Lady and the Church by Father Hugo Rahner, S.J., translated by Father Sebastian Bullough, O.P. (Bethesda, Maryland: Zaccheus Press, 2004), page 66:

     Mary is therefore in a real sense the beginning of our baptismal grace, so that Irenaeus, a little farther on, can state it simply: "Chastely Christ opened the chaste womb, so that thence men also might similarly be reborn."