Need to Know
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
No “co-sufferer” not “co-redemptorix” Mary is a human being . Jesus is God in the Hypostatic Union. Jesus is an infinite and Divine human being and God, never any less.
The chaplet of Our Lady of Sorrows is seven sets of beads with seven Hail Marys in each set of seven beads.
But..but…Pope Bob says September is now the month to worship Gaia. Out with that old rigid Marian stuff!
/sarc off
Mary De Voe: Adam and Eve were participants in Original Sin, but it is called the sin of Adam. Adam was the priest of Eden charged with its keeping. He failed in his duty. In the same way Christ is the Eternal High Priest Who carried out His duty with His sacrificial offering of Himself on the Cross. Mary participated with Christ in her seven sorrows. Throughout their earthly lives Jesus and Mary were in the state of Original Righteousness. Mary was the only purely human person who was given the Immaculate Conception after the Fall. Jesus and Mary share this special relationship. If we call Jesus the New Adam and Mary the New Eve this has one flesh implications. Just as Eve came from Adam, Jesus got His human nature from Mary. Adam and Eve sinned male and female. In the same way through Jesus and Mary we were redeemed male and female. Of the two only Christ was the Priest Who was able to offer His redemptive sacrifice to God. The co in co-redemptorix can signify with rather than equal.
Greg B:
“The co in co-redemptorix can signify with rather than equal.”
Only God can satisfy the sin against God. “co” may be misinterpreted by some individuals and thereby cause folly where there ought to be only clarity.
One of the most beautiful churches in Chicago is Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica. If you visit, you’ll note that the stone floors are not even. They’ve been worn down by years – mostly, I’m told, in the years following WWII through the 50s – by people coming to pray the devotion to Our Lady. Sometimes, I’m told, they would pray the devotion to Our Lady up to seven times on weekends, with the church filled most of the time. The church became a basilica based on the role it played in the promotion of this devotion. Unfortunately, those days are gone. But it is a beautiful and prayerful place to visit.