Dear Joe:

Mary was the first Christian. She is the perfect Christian, perfect in devotion, perfect in sanctity, perfect of soul. All that we aspire to be as Christians is found in Mary.

Is not our biological mothers our life, our sweetness, and our hope? Mary is the mother of us all. It was through Mary's fiat that made possible the birth of the Savior through whom we have eternal life. Thus Mary is our life both in the sense of the perfect model of the Christian life, as the mother who looks after her children, and as the co-redeemer through whom the incarnate God-Man came into this world to redeem mankind and opened the doors to eternal life.

She is our sweetness in that her gentle and sweet soul gives us a model of how to be Christian. She is our hope because we can hope to aspire to her example and also because through her the hope of salvation was made possible to us in her son, Jesus Christ.

I hope this helps a little to understand this deep and profound mystery.

As for Mary being the new land of Israel, I do not recall hearing that title for Mary.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary