Co-Redemptrix

In 1959, Pope John XXIII granted it the official pontifical title, elevating its status.

Father Balic was a maximalist Mariologist who strongly advocated for the titles of Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces to be conferred on the Blessed Virgin Mary, along with the formal affirmation of the related doctrines.

He was the principal author of the official schema, De Beatae Mariae Virginis, Mater Dei et Mater Hominum, for the Preparatory Theological Commission of Vatican II.

As a peritus of the Preparatory Commission, he included the following two footnotes in the schema on the co-redemption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the cross.

The twenty twenty-six PAMI preamble invites members to walk three paths, truth, beauty, and charity, that lead to a fourth, the path of culture and the path of charity.

The statutes urge members to ensure that Marian study and devotion are not reduced to sterile devotionism, but instead give life to Marian places that promote the well-being and integral development of the human person in harmony with the environment.

This reference to sterile devotionism appears to target the very doctrines championed by Father Balik, particularly the titles Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces.

The new statutes call members to give life to Marian places, language Teilhard would approve of, as they suggest Inanimate realities evolving into living ones.

The faithful Marian bishops had to be satisfied by a movement toward merely having the council declare Our Lady to be Mother of the Church.

With sixty years of hindsight, that now appears to have been their best and only available move, to keep the discussion of Marian dogmas alive as the Church awaits better days when Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces and Co-Redemptrix, will be defined infallibly.

Sad times indeed.

As one perceptive historian writes, "When we understand how much the Most Holy Virgin Mary has been hatefully scorned at Vatican II, we realize why, during her first Saturday apparition at Pontevedra, Our Lord demanded with so much insistence the practice of repertory devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary." Father John Lavelle hails from the southern suburbs of Chicago.

Thus, devotion to Mary is necessary for salvation, and we are all obligated to obey the message of Fatima.

In tomorrow's sermon, I'm going to preach about Mary as the Mother of Divine Grace and Co-Redemptrix.

This is kind of a related theme to what I'm saying right now because it highlights Mary's role in God's plan of salvation.

And again, this is extremely important because we absolutely must believe this as Catholics, and there's so many beautiful signs of how this is playing out in the last, let's say, a hundred plus years with the message of Our Lady of Fatima.

Well, the same thing in theological terms, when you hear that, and you hear it properly and not like some people, who try to define the word as if they were a 21st century modernist or anomalist who don't know the roots of the word.

Co-redemptrix, of course, means cum, from the Latin, meaning with, and the feminine redemptrix, the she who is with, the feminine redemptrix, partner in the work of redemption? Does it mean that she's equal? And even those who try to say co-pilot is making the co-pilot equal to the pilot, if you were to ask any pilot, he would never have thought that his co-pilot was equal to him.

Matter of fact, they don't get paid the same either.

So even to use that as a reason for why someone would be have a little bit of uneasiness about the term co-redemptrix, it's all this Protestant worries that they have that's really underlying it, and not because there's anything wrong with the word co-redemptrix.

It doesn't make Our Lady a goddess, as some would like to misrepresent that.

Co-redemptrix, as I said, just means she who is with the Redeemer in the work of redemption, and Really, the redemption, as we know, began from the first moment at the Annunciation, and our whole Lord's 33 years of His life was a work of redemption.

But the part that we really focus on and really brought it about to its completion was those three hours when He suffered on the cross.

But our Lady... as we so well see in the seven sorrows that, you know, we meditate on and have meditated on in the church for centuries as well, show us that, you know, throughout our Lord's earthly life, Our Lady was there suffering with him.

ToothTwister says, Leo really showed his stripes at the release of the mantra popular Fidelis to scourge the title Mediatrix of All Graces.

You can find Mediatrix of All Graces and Co-Redemptrix applied to the Virgin Mary in concept before the labels were solidified.

But if you know the definitions of those things, then you could see the definitions being applied to her going back more than a thousand years.

Leo had no right to tell you you can't use those titles.

And it points out to reality because that word bitter in sacred scripture has a fairly significant relation to soul and things like spirit and things like heart.

And we kind of get a glimpse at the interior of Our Lady of Coredemptrix here.

It sounds like a leap at the moment, but perhaps we can kind of get a little closer to it as well, that this interior reality, bitterness.

In Sacred Scripture, bitterness is also associated with death, water, curse, right? Numbers, the curse of bitterness, the woman who is accused, her husband is jealous, you have to drink this water.

And it, it's a beautiful document.

It's actually a critique of the, the titles, uh, Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces, and why the church has moved away from the use of those.

But in the process of really explaining that, and, and it really takes us deeper into our Mariology and, and each of our relationships with the Blessed Mother.

So I'm, I'm gonna toss that out to every- I, I, I'm writing something on it right now, 'cause I, I just love it.

so when jesus appears and our lady appear to sister lucia 1925 and establish what the five first saturdays look like and the whole process and to do this to make these first saturdays in atonement for all the sins and defenses against the immaculate heart of mary right right now it's Quick, speed this up here before I go back to that.

We have these attacks where now we've been told not to call Mary co-redemptrix.

We have this priest that you mentioned, Father Stefano, saying that he's an enemy of Marian apparitions that speak of divine punishment, which clearly then would be Fatima, you would think here.

And then we've got new protocol that says Marian apparitions, we don't have to define whether they're of supernatural origin, they just have to have basically an imprimata and so forth.

We'd never have heard that these card-carrying, openly card-carrying politicians are out there promoting this.

And again, back to what Our Lady said in Fatima, if you do what I tell you, and she didn't talk about water or treaties or economy or any of those things all those things would take care of themselves if we'd focus on the priorities like you just made mention monsignor about jesus and the paralytic man is conversion she says this is about conversion you need to come back to my son and you need to consecrate to my immaculate heart yourselves and russia and so forth So Monsignor, we've got, I know the parents and the families out there that I'm friends with around the country.

in their living rooms around their kitchen tables, when they hear these statements, such as don't call Mary co-redemptrix, when they hear hell is not that big of a deal or universal salvation ideas, or this current one from this father Stefano about marrying apparitions that speak of divine punishment.

When they hear this, they're sitting there thinking, what do we do? How do we look at this? Who do we turn to? What message would you have if you were sitting at their kitchen table at dinner with them? What would you say to those out there right now that are really scratching their heads, wondering where in the world is this going?