Mary is the advocate for the people of God and has the authority to influence God's judgments.
Would you please give me your intreprations of these two parts of the petition. I ask because they were intreprated yesterday for me by another catholic on a different thread, and I would be interested if other catholics saw it the same way. Thanks.
Becky
Catholics consider Mary "blessed among women," "perfected in grace," the "Queen of Heaven" and saint par excellence. Therefore, since the prayer of a righteous person avails much, Mary's prayer will avail more than any other person's.
Mary is mediatrix and has the power to grant all graces.
Perhaps the petitioners are saying that, at least theoretically, God could choose to mediate all graces through Jesus and then Mary.
Even granting this maximalist position, the gulf between Mary's mediation and Jesus' mediation would be as immeasurable as the infinite gulf between Creator and creation, Source of Grace and channel of grace.