”I bless thy holy Name, I praise thine exalted privilege of being truly Mother of God, ever Virgin, conceived without stain of sin, Co-Redemptrix of the human race. ”(Raccolta, 1950)
According to the term, Co-Redemtrix, the Blessed Virgin Mary is being referred to in her role, with her son Jesus, in the redemption of all peoples. As Co-Redemtrix she is subordinate but essential in her participation in redemption. The Blessed Virgin Mary gave her free consent to give life to the redeemer, Jesus Christ. Related to this belief is Mary as Mediatrix; a title given to Mary, Mother of Jesus used by some Christians which refers to Mary’s role as mediator by intercession in the redemption by her son Jesus.
While Christ is the only proper mediator between God and man(1 Timothy 2:5), in his one action he salvificly redeemed the whole world. Mediatrix is an ancient name that has been used by multiple Saints since the 5th Century. During the Middle Ages it grew in use and reached its nexus in the writings of Louis de Montfort and Alphonsus Liguori in the 18th Century. The general role of intercession and the term “Mediatrix” is given to Mary by Christians, but this does not take away from nor add to anything concerning the dignity or efficacy of Christ the one Mediator.
“In Mater Populi Fidelis, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Catholic Church, in November 2025, declared that the use of the titles Mediatrix, Mediatrix of all graces, and Co-Redemptrix “have limits that do not favor a correct understanding of Mary’s unique place”.[6][7] The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith encouraged the faithful to instead use of the title Mother of God for the Blessed Virgin Mary.”(Wikipedia,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Co-Redemptrix&wprov=rarw1)
As I consider the current Vatican and it’s occupants to be false teachers who are responsible for misleading Christ’s sheep, it is no wonder that they have deluded the masses with their false teaching, and yes, false “Magisterial” claims! As a Catholic this angers me. An apostate false church has taken from us so much. Pope John Paul II: This is the one instance where a recent Pope used the term. John Paul II referred to Mary as “Co-redemptrix” on several occasions, often in the context of linking her suffering at the Cross with Christ’s. In more recent times, the title has received some support from the Catholic Magisterium[2] though it is not included in the concluding chapter of the apostolic constitution Lumen gentium of the Second Vatican Council, which chapter many theologians hold to be a comprehensive summary of Catholic Mariology. As early as the year 200, the Church Father Irenaeus referred to Mary as the cause of our salvation (Latin: causa salutis) given her fiat (“let it be”).[19]
The concept was especially common in the late Middle Ages, when it was promoted heavily among the Franciscans, and often resisted by the Dominicans. It is an idea which was the subject of considerable theological debate, reaching a peak in the 15th century.[20] By the early 16th century the hopes of the concept becoming Catholic doctrine had receded, and have never seriously revived.
“There have been efforts to propose a formal dogmatization, which has had both popular and ecclesiastical support. The proposal for the dogma is often associated with the alleged apparitions of The Lady of All Nations to Ida Peerdeman, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The visionary reported that the Lady of the apparition repeatedly instructed her to petition Pope Pius XII to dogmatically define Mary’s spiritual motherhood under the threefold title of Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate. The apparitions have the approval of the diocesan ordinary, Bishop Jozef Marianus Punt of Haarlem-Amsterdam. This came after the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had affirmed the earlier finding of Bishop Johannes Huibers, a predecessor, that he “found no evidence of the supernatural nature of the apparitions”.[32] The CDF affirmed his position on 13 March 1957 and again on 24 May 1972 and 25 May 1974.[32]
The possibility of such a dogma was brought up at the Second Vatican Council by Italian, Spanish, and Polish bishops, but not dealt with on the council floor.[33] Subsequently, “not only did the Council not take the route of a dogmatic pronouncement, but it positively avoided using ‘coredemptio'”, and popes pointedly did not include such language in their encyclicals.[34]
In the early 1990s Mark Miravalle of the Franciscan University of Steubenville and author of the book Mary: Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate launched a popular petition to urge Pope John Paul II to declare Mary Coredemptrix ex cathedra. Salvatore Perrella of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of the Marianum in Rome thought that this indicated “…a certain ‘under-appreciation’ of the Council’s teaching, which is perhaps believed to be not completely adequate to illustrate comprehensively Mary’s co-operation in Christ’s work of Redemption.”
A number of theologians have discussed the concept over the years, from the 19th-century Father Frederick William Faber, to the 20th-century Mariologist Father Gabriel Roschini.[21]The term Co-Redemptress was used by Pope Leo XIII in 1894.[22] “For in the Rosary all the part that Mary took as our co-Redemptress comes to us…” In his 1946 publication Compendium Mariologiae, Roschini explained that Mary did not only participate in the birth of the physical Jesus, but, with conception, she entered with him into a spiritual union. The divine salvation plan, being not only material, includes a permanent spiritual unity with Christ. Most Mariologists agree with this position.
In the year of 1913, the Pope granted an indulgence to those who recited a prayer containing the following passage: I bless thy holy Name, I praise thine exalted privilege of being truly Mother of God, ever Virgin, conceived without stain of sin, Co-Redemptrix of the human race. The prayer is found in the Raccolta of 1950 with Vatican approval.[
The Mediatorship of Mary
1 Timothy 2:5 says, “For there is one God. There is only one mediator between God and the human race, Christ Jesus…” And he is the sole mediator between God and man, by his death on the cross he fully reconciled man with God. But this does not exclude a secondary mediator. There is nothing to prevent others from being called mediators, subordinated to Christ, as they prepare or serve by co-operating in uniting men to God.
Mary is known by the Church Fathers as the “Go-between”(mediatrix). The title Mediatrix has even been received into the liturgy of the Church by the introduction of the Feast of M. Mariae Virginis omnium gratiatum Mediatrics (1921).
1.Mary is Mediatrix of all graces by her co-operation in the Incarnation.Mary is mediatrix of all graces in a double sense :
a.Mary gave the Redeemer, the source of all graces, to the world, and in this way she is the channel of all graces.
b.Since Mary’s Assumption into Heaven no grace is conferred on man without her actual intercessory co-operation.
Mary freely cooperated in the Incarnation by her response to Gabriel when she said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done unto me according to thy word.”(Luke 1:38) In the Annunciation, the Incarnation, and the Redemption of mankind by the vicarious atonement of Christ, were all dependent upon her consent. In one moment in history Mary represented all humanity. St. Jerome said, “By a women the whole world was saved”
Mary’s co-operation in the Redemption.
In the 15th century, under Pius X, some Church documents contained the title: Corredemptrix (Coredemptrix). This term has been misunderstood by some Protestants and lay people as Mary being made equal to Christ. But we must not conceive of the term Coredemptrix in the sense of an equation of efficacy of Mary with the redemptive activity of Christ, the sole Redeemer of humanity. [Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma p.212] Because she herself was in need of redemption and was indeed redeemed by Christ. She, in principle, could not be both the redeemer and the redeemed. THE AUTHOR OF AN ACT OF MERIT CANNOT BE A RECIPIENT OF THE SAME ACT OF MERIT. (Principium meriti non cadit sub eodem merito) So we see that her act of co-operation in the objective redemption is an indirect, remote co-operation. For she devoted her life to the service of the redeemer, and under the cross, suffered and sacrificed with Him. In the same sense she co-operates in the subjective redemption of mankind.
2.Mary is the Mediatrix of all graces by her intercession in Heaven.
“According to the view of the older, and of many of the modern, theologians Mary’s intercessory co-operation extends to all graces, which are conferred on mankind, so that no grace accrues to men, without the intercession of Mary. The implication of this is not that we are obliged to beg for all graces through Mary, nor that Mary’s intercession is intrinsically necessary for the application of the grace, but that, according to God’s positive ordinance, the redemptive grace of Christ is conferred on nobody without the actual intercessory co-operation of Mary.” [Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma p. 213]
Pope Pius X calls Mary “the dispenser of all gifts, which Jesus has acquired for us by His death and His blood” Theologians express scriptural proof by Christ’s words in John 19:26, “Woman behold thy son, son behold thy mother.” In the mere literal sense, this only means that Jesus was committing his mother to John’s care. But in the mystical interpretation we see in John the representation of the whole human race. In him Mary was given as a mother to all the redeemed. Through Mary’s intercession she procures children in need of help, to which are imparted the grace to eternal life.
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