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From Dictionary.com: co·e·qual [koh-ee-kwuhl] Show IPA –adjective 1. equal with another or each other in rank, ability, extent, etc.: The two top students were coequal. –noun 2. a coequal person or thing. Origin: 1350–1400; ME. See co-, equal —Related forms co·e·qual·i·ty [koh-i-kwol-i-tee] Show IPA , co·e·qual·ness, noun co·e·qual·ly, adverb Apparently NOT as you say. If "co-" doesn't mean equal, why is definition no. 1 shown above??? It apparently DOES mean equal. Try again? Hoss

Sorry Hoss, you are picking up only a bit of the conversation and that gives you a contextual problem. The only "co" statements have been with respect to an assertion that the statement that Mary is considered by some to be the "Co-redeemer" it is the Catholic position that she is in some way equal with Christ. I simply answered that in this context, the translation into English was flawed. It means only she participated with Jesus in our redemption.

Mary is not unique in the cooperation and participation on our redemption. St. Augustine described the doctrine that moves us to an ever more complete participation in our Redeemer's sacrifice which we celebrate in the Eucharist:

"This wholly redeemed city, the assembly and society of the saints, is offered to God as a universal sacrifice by the high priest who in the form of a slave went so far as to offer himself for us in his Passion, to make us the Body of so great a head.... Such is the sacrifice of Christians: "we who are many are one Body in Christ" The Church continues to reproduce this sacrifice in the sacrament of the altar so well-known to believers wherein it is evident to them that in what she offers she herself is offered."