AGAINST THE VOICES HERETICS WHO HAVE RISED UP SAYING THAT OUR LADY IS NOT A BROKER

 

* STABAT MATER DOLOROSA JUXTA CRUCEM LACRIMOSA, DUM PENDEBAT FILIUS

 

In our apocalyptic times where the Catholic religion suffers great attacks from enemies, even those within it, both in its foundation and origin, its most sacred dogmas are attacked without mercy and with great contempt.

It is up to us as militant Catholics to defend it and to once again highlight the divine character of dogmas with a passion that is only controlled by charity and prudence that comes from on high.

The issue that concerns us on this occasion is the cunning attack that Our Lady has suffered by the highest prelate who should meditate before opening his mouth and saying nefarious things that threaten the Blessed Virgin Mary already so reviled by Protestants and some priests and bishops of the current Catholic world. It is, then, THE CORREDENTION OF OUR LADY a well-deserved right for various reasons for which we will suffice only with her DIVINE MARRIAGE, but we are going to rivet this privilege of co-redemption from the view of a great saint such as Saint Thomas Aquinas with the hope to elaborate more in the future.

 

This question requires for its complement a brief appendix on the part that corresponds to the Virgin Mary in this work of human salvation, since it is common to surname Mary co-redemptrix and universal mediator of all graces.  The co-redemptrix seems to refer to the work of Jesus Christ in her life and above all to her redemptive passion for mediation, to the distribution of her grace to souls in the course of history until the end of the centuries. To see how this suits Mary, it is necessary to lay down some essential principles for the correct solution of a truth that is so engraved in the Heart of the faithful and that Marian theology takes very seriously to study and define.

Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of man, is the only one in whom God placed the health of the world. He offered divine justice a most complete satisfaction for sins; He merited us  with  rigorous justice the forgiveness of sins, the grace of God, the gift of divine sonship and eternal glory ; He is the head of the mystical body, which is the Church, and no one can obtain the least grace from God except through his mediation. Such is Christian doctrine, the fundamental teaching of the faith.   He was born of a virgin mother , whom He himself chose as he pleased, and, out of consideration for his own merits, he preserved her from original sin, enriched her most fully with all kinds of grace, and incorporated her into the work that he came to accomplish on earth.

But this Son of God, come to be the Son of man, and because he had to fulfill this work with his life, his passion and his death, so Mother, incorporated life, passion and death, he lived his in intimacy with her Son and for the same purposes as Him, the health of the world. This last point belongs to the current teaching of the Magisterium of the Church, while the preceding ones are as many dogmas of faith.  For, being the Virgin holy and exempt from all sin, she offered her works, her prayers, her pains, for the intentions of her Son, that is, for the health of the world, and this offering was most gratifying in the presence of God, deserving she for her part  of worthy  and not in rigorous justice        as in the case of his Son, according to the theologians, because that was the will of the Eternal Father.

To better understand this intimacy of life, it is convenient to recall an evangelical episode and point out its deep meaning. Jesus Christ, from the first moment of his natural human being, knew his destiny fully and even in its minute details; consequently, his life, his passion and his death. Since then he embraced all this and thus he lived always carrying the cross before his eyes, He being in the virginal womb of his most holy Mother had full awareness of everything that happened outside of his Mother's womb. Well, so that the Mother might resemble the Son and live united to Him on the cross, the old Simeon, enlightened by the Holy Spirit, announced to Mary the sad destiny of her Son and the part that she would have in that destiny: It stands for the fall and rising of many in Israel and, for a target of contradiction and a sword will pierce your heart - so that the thoughts of many may be discovered (Le. 2, 34S).  These words, dictated by the Holy Spirit, were received by those who enjoyed abundant light to understand them in their deepest sense, this intelligence being a continuous cause of pain, until the full meaning of that prophecy was realized on Calvary.  With this, the Mother, like Abraham, offered, on the altar of her heart, the sacrifice of her Son, associating herself intimately with the oblation of Jesus. Such an offering of Mary was in the eyes of the heavenly Father extremely pleasant, and for her it also deserved from his part what the Son, with a greater right, deserved from his.

In this way, the Mother was incorporated into the redemptive work of the Son, cooperating with her to the extent that her condition as a pure creature allowed her, but also with the efficacy that her dignity as Mother of God and the richness of her grace and holiness gave her.  This is the reason for her title as co-redemptrix and mediator.

To close this beautiful topic, it is convenient to quote a great theologian, Dom Reginaldo Garrigou-Lagrage: “Well, it is appropriate that the absolutely perfect savior exercise a sovereign redemption with respect to his soul, that call, that is, of the Blessed Virgin, who it is most closely united with him in his work of salvation.

 

Thus, it is highly appropriate that Christ Jesus, the perfect Redeemer, exercise redemption in all its fullness with his Mother: redemption not only restorative and liberating, but PRESERVING. It is fitting that Mary should not be liberated, but rather be totally PRESERVED from this original sin by the future merits of her Son.

 

Christ's love for his Immaculate Mother is immense. Before this thought our soul must expand and take like a new flight. Only the Mother of the Son of God could have this unique prerogative, and how it was convenient for her to have it! By being called to become, consequently, logical, Mother of God and, therefore, CORREDENTORA. Mother of all men, she had to be rescued from sin as perfectly as possible ... (extract from her book EL SALVADOR)

 

THE GODLY MOTHER WAS CLOSE TO THE CROSS WHILE THE SON PENDED.