CCC 969: 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."
This is true and very beautiful, and no, it is not Mariolatry. It is necessary to see all this in the context of the Body of Christ. We each of us have a role in Christ's saving work, since we are members of His Body and the whole Church is incorporated into Christ. We are to be conformed to Christ, transformed.
In this context, whatever is said of Mary, is said to some degree or in some way to all who are in Christ. It is Christ who vivifies us, as the True Vine of Whom we are fruitful branches. It is Christ who is, above all and through all, Advocate, Helper, Benefactor, and Mediator.
Any other person --- or all persons --- who are united in Christ, have a share in this great work precisely because we are in Him. What is said of Mary, then, is emblematic of the whole Church (and here I do not mean, of course, just dues-paying pewsitters in a Catholic parish!)
Mary exhibits this cooperation with Christ to a uniquely high degree because "He Who is mighty has done great things" for His maidservant.
If you see this without context, you might be mistaken and think she is being called equal to Christ. This is not so. This could never be so, because she is a contingent, finite, dependent, created being, a human person; while Jesus Christi is a Divine Person: absolute, infinite, in and through whom all things were made.
In the Triune God we live and move and have our being. Mary --- like us --- is a member of His Body and under her Head, who is Christ.
Here's some context for you:
DECLARATION "DOMINUS IESUS": ON THE UNICITY AND SALVIFIC UNIVERSALITY OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE CHURCH
A good pull-quote from Paragraph 15:
"One can and must say that Jesus Christ has a significance and a value for the human race and its history, which are unique and singular, proper to him alone, exclusive, universal, and absolute."
Do you agree with that paragraph? I do. Which is why a Catholic cannot be a Mariolator.
"5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"
Now. Do YOU believe THAT? CCC 969 teaches that Mary is a "mediatrix" -- and she is nothing of the sort. God's word says there is ONE mediator between God and men, the Man Jesus Christ.
One means one. Not two. One. Not Mary, not any other "saint" -- ONLY Jesus.
CCC 969 teaches a false gospel. It teaches that Mary in some way has a "saving office" -- NO ONE comes to the Father except through Christ Jesus -- remember, Jesus said, "no one comes to the Father but through me" in John 14:6. Where in scripture is this refuted? Where in "Holy Tradition" is the very word of God Almighty himself in Christ Jesus refuted? Did Christ lie?
Mary provides no intercession. Remember 2 Tim. 2:5 -- ONE mediator? It goes for intercession also:
Romans 8:34:
"Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us."
Where is Mary shown to be an intercessor except in the bilge of CCC 969? No one comes to the Father (is provided salvation) but through Jesus... but CCC 969 teaches that Mary provides... SALVATION? This is a false gospel. Only CHRIST provides salvation through his shed blood. No one participates with Christ in the act of salvation; that is by faith through grace... faith that is given to us by God, and grace extended to us by God. We were dead in trespasses and sins... dead. The dead can not participate in acting in some salvific way... God provides it ALL.
Attributing this kind of unbiblical and untrue authority to Mary by the Roman Catholic Church is the DEFINITION of idolatry... or, in this case, Mariolatry.
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