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To: TheStickman
Well, go ahead and goggle it.
You will find plenty of reading material.
Try, for example, Catholicsource.net.
They are perfectly comfortable with the title.
You are most right on one point however: Words Do mean things!
455 posted on 10/26/2007 12:40:39 PM PDT by Bainbridge
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To: Bainbridge

Naw, I have no interest in Googling this term. I will look it up in the Catechism.

Interestingly enough, when I do a search for “redemptrix” or “co-redemptrix” in the Catechism...nothing comes up.


459 posted on 10/26/2007 12:49:00 PM PDT by TheStickman
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To: Bainbridge

When I do a search for Mediatrix in the Catechism I read:

967 By her complete adherence to the Father’s will, to his Son’s redemptive work, and to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary is the Church’s model of faith and charity. Thus she is a “preeminent and . . . wholly unique member of the Church”; indeed, she is the “exemplary realization” (typus)510 of the Church.

968 Her role in relation to the Church and to all humanity goes still further. “In a wholly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the Savior’s work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a mother to us in the order of grace.”511

969 “This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation . . . . Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.”512

970 “Mary’s function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin’s salutary influence on men . . . flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on his mediation, depends entirely on it, and draws all its power from it.”513 “No creature could ever be counted along with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer; but just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source.”514


462 posted on 10/26/2007 12:56:36 PM PDT by TheStickman
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