“Mary, of course, can’t be anything other than another one of us many sinners who are saved by grace.”
Uh, so you and everyone else carried Jesus in your womb (if you have one) for 9 months and gave birth to him, just like Mary, since she’s no different than you or me?
Co-redemptrix does not mean equal redeemer. It simply recognizes the simple fact that without a Mother there would be no Incarnation (embodiment) and without Incarnation there would be no redemption. She is an agent of the prccess by which God saves us.
She is.
She simply is.
Deny it until you are blue in the face but it doesn’t change the fact: without Mary there would be no Incarnation.
Everything she did she did only by God’s grace.
But God did what He did to save us by means of Mary. Really, truly by means of her.
Wow that is so deadly.
OK, by this logic, without Mary’s mother there would be no Mary and so Mary’s mother is also a Co-Redemptrix. And also Mary’s father, and Mary’s father’s father, and so on.
Mary’s entire lineage straight from Adam and Eve all must be Co-Redemptrix-es too, right? Unless the Roman Catholic Organization is going to claim that Mary dropped out of the sky. Maybe they already do.
Mary’s Great Great Great Grandmother is also a Co-Redemptrix, because without her, Mary’s Great Great Grandmother wouldn’t have been born and therefore Mary’s Great Grandmother wouldn’t have been born and therefore Mary’s Grandmother wouldn’t have been born and therefore Mary’s mother wouldn’t have been born and therefore Mary wouldn’t have been born.
But there would still have been an Incarnation.
How about this for a shocker: God could have chosen another woman if Mary had said no. He knew she wouldn’t, but He could have easily done so. All the woman had to do was say “yes” and then obey. It is just the same as what any sinfilled fallen human has to do to accept Christ’s free gift of redemtion. There is nothing special about Mary. Being blessed with the honor of carrying Christ to term and then raising him was a *GIFT* from God. It had nothing to do with her and doesn’t confer any superpowers onto her.