The earth has given forth its fruit

The earth is Mary Most Holy, who comes from our earth, our lineage, from this clay, from this mud, from Adam.

The earth has yielded its fruit: it first produced a flower . . . this flower then became a fruit so that we might eat it so that we might eat its flesh.

Would you like to know what this fruit is? It is the Virgin Son who proceeds from the Virgin Mother; the Lord from the handmaid; God from man; the Son from the Mother; the fruit from the earth. 

Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarum in Psalmos 66; PL 26, 1010-1011