Mary Quotes

“Mary’s motherhood, which remains man’s inheritance, is a gift: a gift which Christ himself makes personally to each individual.”221”
― Mark I. Miravalle, Mary: Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate

“The gifts of eternal salvation can only come from Calvary and the redeeming work of the Saviour and Mediator (cf. Jn 19:26). Mary has been granted the task by Almighty God of “bringing us the gifts of eternal salvation”, and is thereby rightly “invoked by the Church” as the “Mediatrix.”211 The footnote to the term, “Mediatrix” in the Council document Lumen Gentium refers to the several official teachings of the Magisterium of Mary’s role as Mediatrix of all graces as previously taught by Pope Leo XIII,212 Pope St. Pius X,213 Pope Pius XI,214 and Pope Pius XII.215 The Council does not diminish, but rather assumes and confirms the rich and repeated papal tradition of the ordinary Magisterium about the Mediatrix of graces that has preceded it.”
― Mark I. Miravalle, Mary: Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate

“It is good to remember here that the Liturgy of the Church constitutes a certain incarnational doctrine embodied in ecclesial prayer, which presupposes the existence of a given doctrine before incorporating it into liturgical prayer. For “as we pray, so do we believe.”198”
― Mark I. Miravalle, Mary: Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate