Mary did not "pass on" divinity to Jesus. Mary is not divine!
Mary was preserved from Original Sin, the blot on all of us from Adam's sin. It would not be fitting that God be born subject to sin, in fact it makes no sense to speak of a God who has a nature or a tendency to sin. So Mary, who was to serve as God's "home" for 9 months did not have Original Sin to pass on to Jesus.
Mary being made free from OS is not why Jesus is God. Rather Jesus being God is why Mary was made free from OS. To be a worthy resting place for God himself.
(BTW, being without sin is a necessary condition of one who is divine. But it is not sufficient. A human without any sin is still human. Adam and Eve did not have OS to pass on to their children. And if they had not sinned their children would not have OS. But it doesn't make Adam and Eve, or Mary divine.)
SD
CO-REDEMPTRESS WITH CHRIST. Catholic doctrine about Mary goes far beyond her role in Jesus' birth. It is taught that she shared in His sufferings also, and thereby shared in His work of redemption. We will give this in the words of the Vatican II documents:
"As St. Irenaeus says, she being obedient, became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race. Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert with him in their preaching `death through Eve, life through Mary'. This union of the mother with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ's virginal conception up to his death. She cooperated in the work of the Saviour in an altogether singular way to restore supernatural life to souls. As a result, she is our mother in the order of grace. Mary, sharing as she did even on Calvary, had a part even in the once for all acquisition of the great treasury. Now from this common sharing of will and suffering between Christ and Mary, she `merited to become most worthily the Reparatrix [one who makes amends or atonement] for a lost world,' and therefore, Dispensatrix [one who dispenses] of all the gifts which Jesus gained for us by His death and His blood (Vatican II documents).
Sounds pretty DIVINE to me.
BigMack
You have no idea what you are saying - do you?! Blasphemy. Pure and simple Blasphemy. God CHOSE Mary because she had kept herself free from sin and lived righteously. God didn't break his own laws and transgress Mary's rights or those of the Devil in order to bring Christ into the world. Get thee hence! Don't blaspheme God!
This kind of garbage is an absolute lie of the Devil. And I can't understand how in the world it simply rolls off your fingers or tongues without a thought as though it were nothing.