Affirmation

The contributors at Pax Orbis reaffirm our belief in the title and the reality of Our Lady as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of the human race. “When wicked men blaspheme Thee, we’ll love and bless Thy name.”

The following resources are proof of the truth and the value of these titles of Our lady.

Prayer

O Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, look down in mercy from Heaven, where Thou art enthroned as Queen, upon me, a miserable sinner, Thine unworthy servant.

Although I know full well my own unworthiness, yet in order to atone for the offences that are done to Thee by impious and blasphemous tongues, from the depths of my heart I praise and extol Thee as the purest, the fairest, the holiest creature of all God’s handiwork.

I bless Thy holy name, I praise Thine exalted privilege of being truly Mother of God, ever Virgin, conceived without stain of sin, Co-Redemptrix of the human race.

I bless the Eternal Father who chose thee in an especial way for His Daughter; I bless the Word Incarnate who took upon Himself our nature in Thy bosom and so made Thee His Mother; I bless the Holy Spirit who took Thee as His bride.

All honour, praise and thanksgiving to the ever-blessed Trinity, who predestined Thee and loved Thee so exceedingly from all eternity as to exalt Thee above all creatures to the most sublime heights.

O Virgin, holy and merciful, obtain for all who offend Thee the grace of repentance, and graciously accept this poor act of homage from me, Thy servant, obtaining likewise for me from Thy divine Son the pardon and remission of all my sins. Amen.

Mary as Co-redemptrix: “In the decree of the S. C. of the Holy Office (section on Indulgences), Sunt quos amor, June 26, 1913¹, Benedict XV praises the custom of adding to the name of Jesus the name of ‘His Mother, our co-redemptor, the blessed Mary’; cf. also the prayer enriched by the Holy Office with an indulgence, in which the Blessed Virgin Mary is called ‘coredemptress of the human race’ ²”^{3 4}

Proof from the Popes

• Pius IX: Ineffabilis Deus, 1854
  • All our hope do we repose in the most Blessed Virgin — in the all fair and immaculate one who has crushed the poisonous head of the most cruel serpent and brought salvation to the world: in her who is the glory of the prophets and apostles, the honor of the martyrs, the crown and joy of all the saints; in her who is the safest refuge and the most trustworthy helper of all who are in danger; in her who, with her only-begotten Son, is the most powerful Mediatrix and Conciliatrix in the whole world; in her who is the most excellent glory, ornament, and impregnable stronghold of the holy Church; in her who has destroyed all heresies and snatched the faithful people and nations from all kinds of direst calamities; in her do we hope who has delivered us from so many threatening dangers. 
• Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical Adjutricem populi, 1895
  • “For thereafter, by the divine plan, she so began to watch over the Church, so to be present to us and to favour us as Mother, that she who had been the minister of accomplishing the mystery of human redemption, would be likewise the minister of the dispensation of that grace, practically limitless power being given to her.”
• Pope Benedict XV instituted November 8 as the feast day of Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Graces in 1921
• Pius XII: Encyclical Ad caeli Reginam (1954)
  • “In accomplishing this work of the redemption, the Most Blessed Virgin Mary was certainly closely joined with Christ … was associated with Jesus Christ, the very principle of salvation, by divine plan, and indeed in a way similar to that in which Eve was associated with Adam, the principle of death, so that we can say that the work of our salvation was accomplished according to a certain recapitulation … and if she was joined with her Son, even on Golgotha, [and] she offered Him, together with the holocaust of her Mother’s rights and love, like a New Eve, for all the sons of Adam, defiled by his wretched fall, as a result, beyond doubt, it is right to conclude that just as Christ, the New Adam should be called King not only because He is the Son of God, but also because He is our Redeemer, so by a certain analogy, the most Blessed Virgin is Queen, not only because she is the Mother of God, but also because as the New Eve she was associated with the New Adam”
• Even Pope John Paul II, in his Allocution at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guayaquil, said: “Crucified spiritually with her crucified Son (cf. Gal 2:20), she contemplated with heroic love the death of her God, she ‘lovingly consented to the immolation of this Victim which she herself had brought forth’ (Lumen gentium #58) … as she was in a special way close to the Cross of her Son, she also had to have a privileged experience of his Resurrection. In fact, Mary’s role as Co-redemptrix did not cease with the glorification of her Son.”

Proof from the saints & other sources

• St. Maximilian Kolbe
• St. Louis de Montfort
• St. Alphonsus de Ligouri
• Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
• Many others examples are included in the articles and videos listed below

Articles

• WM Review has published a series of articles reproducing the work of Fr Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP, the highly-esteemed theologian, on why it is appropriate that Our Lady is known as the ‘mediatrix of all graces.’ Part I; Part II; Part III
• article by The Catholic Esquire
• Michael Haynes, author of Mary, the motherly Co-redemptrix, has written two articles here and here
• Monica Miller

Videos

• The Catholic Esquire
• John Henry Westen & Fr. Murr
• Fr. Isaac Relyea
• Fr. Ripperger and Timothy Gordon
• Anthony Stein
• Sermon on Our Lady as Co-Redemptrix for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
• The Fatima Centre

Our Lady, Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces, ora pro nobis !

1. (AAS 5 [1913] 364) ↩︎
2. (Jan. 22, 1914; AAS 6 [1914] 108). ↩︎
3. The Sources of Catholic Dogma, Denzinger, 1978a, footnote 2 ↩︎
4. An indulgence of 500 days (Holy Office, Jan. 22, 1914; S. P. Ap., Dec. 4, 1934) (Raccolta, ed. 1957) ↩︎