Our Lady Is Co-Reparatrix & Mediatrix

"Further, to the Most Holy Mother of God is due not only the honor of having furnished the material of His flesh to the Only Son of God, who was to be born with human members, so that be prepared the Victim for the salvation of men; but hers also was the role of protecting and nurturing that Victim and, at the appointed time, presenting Him for the sacrifice.

"From this came that uninterrupted community of life and sorrows of the Mother and the Son, so that to both of them in an equal way, the words of the Prophet can be applied: 'My soul is consumed in sorrow and my years in groans.' (Ps 30:11)

"And when the supreme hour of the Son came, at the foot of the Cross of Christ there stood His Mother, not merely absorbed in contemplating the cruel spectacle, but rejoicing that her Only Son was offered for the salvation of mankind; and she participated in His Passion so entirely that, if it had been possible, she would gladly have borne herself all the torments that her Son bore.

"From this commonality of will and suffering between Mary and Christ, she merited to become the Reparatrix of the lost mankind, and therefore the Dispensatrix of all the gifts that Our Savior purchased for us with His Death and His Blood.

"It cannot be denied, of course, that the distribution of such gifts is the proper and private right of Jesus Christ, for they were procured for us only from His death and by His power He is the Mediator between God and men. Nevertheless, by this mentioned communality of sorrow and affliction between Mother and Son, it was given to the august Virgin the role of being the most powerful Mediatrix and Advocate of the whole world before her Only Begotten Son."

Encyclical Ad diem illud, §§ 12-13, p. 313.

Posted on November 15, 2025