A feast established by Benedict XV in 1921.
We see this feast, Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces.
We celebrate Our Lady as our spiritual mother, our mother in the order of grace.
As we read in the Gospel, our Lord, as he was hanging on the cross,
said to St. John the disciple, who represented all followers of Christ,
Behold thy mother.
And so that's what we have in Our Lady, is our mother in the order of grace.
That is, she gave supernatural life to us at the foot of the cross
by acquiring with her son the graces of our redemption.
And her role as mother did not cease after her ascension into heaven,
but she continues to dispense graces to souls here on earth.
All graces.
And for this reason, we call her the Mediatrix of All Graces.
And so today we invoke her under this title,
and we ask her to give her all of the graces that we need to become the saints that God wants us to be.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Thank you.