Our Lady is Co-Redeemer of the Human Race

"And truly the Immaculate Virgin, pre-chosen to be the Mother of God and for this reason made Co-Redeemer of the human race, has a power and favor before her Son that is greater than any creature – either human or angelic – was or ever will be able to obtain." (Encyclical Supremi apostolatus, § 2, pp. 67-68)
"The Most Holy Virgin is Mother of God, but she is also mother of all Christians whom she has generated on Mount Calvary in the infinite suffering of the Redeemer; similarly Jesus Christ is, in a certain way, the first-born of Christians, who by adoption and the redemption, are His brothers." (Encyclical Quamquam pluries, §3, p. 117)
"When she offered herself to God as His slave, to further become His mother, and when in the Temple she consecrated herself entirely to Him together with her Son, by reason of these two facts, she became a participant in the sorrowful expiation of Christ, to the advantage of the human race." (Encyclical Iucunda semper, § 3, p. 205)
"As we contemplate in the last and more piteous of these Mysteries, there stood by the Cross of Jesus His Mother, who, moved by an intense love for us so that she might have us as her children, generously offered to Divine Justice her own Son, and with Him died in her heart, pierced by the sword of sorrow." (Ibid., p. 207.)
Co-Redeemer & Mediatrix: "From on high, according to the design of God, she watches over the Church, assisting and protecting her as a mother; so that after being the cooperator in the human Redemption, she also became, through the unlimited power conferred upon her, the dispenser of the graces that always flow from the Redemption." (Encyclical Adjutricem populi, § 7, p. 223)

1. Leo XIII, Encyclical Supremi apostolatus, pp. 67-68. § 2;
2. Encyclical Quamquam pluries, p. 117, § 3;
3. Encyclical Iucunda semper, p. 205, § 3;
4. Ibid., p. 207;
5. Encyclical Adjutricem populi,, p. 223, § 7.

Posted on November 8, 2025