[wideawake]

According to Catholic dogma, Mary is a co-redemptrist, which seem to suggest that salvation through the Blood of Jesus is not sufficient.

(1) This is not Catholic dogma or even close to being Catholic dogma. It is a concept popular among certain Catholic theologians.

For future reference, anything that is not explicitly stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is not Catholic dogma.

(2) The concept means not that Mary herself redeems anyone but that Jesus uses her as an assistant (like a pilot uses a co-pilot) in His redeeming work and that He distributes grace through her.

Any Catholics out there wish to express their understanding of salvation and the position that Mary plays in that process?

mary's role in salvation can be summed up very succinctly: she gave birth to the Savior and she was the first person directly saved by Jesus.

[frogjerk]

mary's role in salvation can be summed up very succinctly: she gave birth to the Savior and she was the first person directly saved by Jesus.

If we Christians are brothers in Christ then Mary is our Mother.

[GipperGal]

Yep, it always comes back to Our Lady. I wish I could understand why Protestants are so horrified by the idea that Catholics have a special devotion to the woman whose humanity brought Our Lord into the world. Who among us suffered as she suffered when He died on the Cross? Who among us has "a sword pierce her heart"? Who else was blessed and full of grace to bear Jesus?

If any Protestant wants to know what Mary is all about, all you need do is read what she said to the servants at the Wedding Feast of Cana, "Do whatever He tells you"(John 2:5). Do whatever Her Son tells us to do. That's what she is all about. She is no threat to her Son's Lordship. She just instructs us to do what He tells us, which is why He trusted and loved her enough to entrust her to us as Our Mother and us to her as her children (John 19:26-27).

[N3WBI3]

mary's role in salvation can be summed up very succinctly: she gave birth to the Savior and she was the first person directly saved by Jesus.

Then why all the prayer to her?

[Asphalt]

that is not explicitly stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is not Catholic dogma.

It scares me you make no mention of the Bible.