Today's saint, Saint Rosa Lima, was a third order Dominican in Lima, Peru, and in her
readings for the Office of Readings today has that very powerful reading that she states
that you might say the law of grace is that you do not receive grace without first
suffering, without first having to endure tribulation or the cross, that that is the
way in which God has arranged the whole system, you might say, is that first you have to have
Good Friday before you can have Easter Sunday.
And we can see that in our own
lives, but most especially we can see that in our Lord and our Lady, that for them to obtain the
great prize that they won for us, they had to undergo tribulation and the cross. Yesterday we
celebrated our Lady's queenship and we mentioned about, you know, her role as co-redemptrix and
how important it was that she obtained the great prize. And we can see that in our Lord and our
Lady's Brookings in the Ring where she eventually became the God of
the Year of Redemption, for that she bought , you know, food for her but also
she got into a position of inspiration at her duchy sozial path through the
entrevising of Concert Bandage of the U.S. Navy dancers. I heard her talk about
what Hitler understood on those days, that it was very much a Church hands down or something like that.
the glory that she has, what she had already because of her count pen conception but all
for some individual or we're praying for the conversion of someone
or we're praying for our nation and for the terrible state that it's
in, that all these graces that we hope
to obtain come with a price. Our
Lord has already paid the price in full, but we too
have to make an installment, you might say,
of paying and being allowed, you might say,
to join into that paying of the
price that is necessary to obtain the salvation
of souls, the grace of conversion.
And Our Lady's co-redemption really shows that Our Lady
cooperated. She said fiat to God's will
and wanting to help pay forth her
part to be participating
in that
work of redemption that her son
came to complete and to accomplish.
That when we look at, you know, the whole
mystery of the co-redemption, it's so important that
many people, you know, as I say, don't see a need for
proclaiming Our Lady as co-redemptrix. Why do we need
that? If we understand that mystery already, why
have the
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isn't going to disorders, not to
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it means is that Our Lady participated
with her Son in the work of redemption and that she too
was offered for our salvation. And everyone
who's ever received a grace
or received any grace from the redemption
has also to thank Our Lady for it. Not only Jesus, but
also Mary. As I said, you know, Christ didn't do
it alone. He asked His Mother
to participate. And the importance of the
co-redemption being proclaimed a dogma only helps
complete the mystery of Our Lady's Immaculate Conception.
We know all these dogmas that have already been
defined tell us about Our Lady and her person.
The graces that she has received kind of tell us
who she is, you know.
She's the Mother of God. She's the Perpetual Virgin.
She's the Immaculate Conception.
And she's assumed into Heaven. But what does that mean
for us? What does that grace of the Immaculate Conception,
since all those graces, the Perpetual Virginity, the Maternity,
and the Assumption, all
are based on that first grace, the most important grace that Our Lady received,
of her Immaculate Conception.
Well, those tell us kind of like who she is.
Tell us who she is in her being.
But what she does, and what she,
what her importance is for the rest of us, is better
explained in Our Lady being
our co-redemptrix, our mediatrix, and our advocate.
It just completes the picture of who Our Lady is.
And if you had a picture of your mother,
and it was only partial, it was somehow
faded, or was, you know, some piece
of her face was missing, you wouldn't
be able to appreciate it. Her beauty would not be
clearly seen. And I think that's
why we need this fifth dogma to complete the
whole picture of who Our Lady is, and what she does
for us. You might say, we're always interested
in what's in it for me. You know, we're so
interested in ourselves. Well, the Immaculate
Conception and what's in it for me is that Our Lady's my co-redemptrix.
She's my mediatrix, and she's my advocate.
Our Lady is, and it's so important that we understand
that, because just as Christ,
you might say, out of humility,
allowed Our Lady to be his co-redemptrix, mediatrix, and advocate,
we too, if we're really humble children,
need and want Our Lady to be our co-redemptrix,
mediatrix, and advocate. And they'll say, well, I recognize
that, but why do I have to proclaim it a dogma? Well, don't you want
your mother, if you love your mother, don't you want everyone to recognize
her beauty and her dignity and her
virtues and the great graces that she has received?
Not for her sake, but because it gives glory to God,
as we said the other day. And this is something that,
you know, as we continue to ponder this mystery,
in the age in which we live, we need
to see that, you know, to praise Our Lady,
redounds to her Son and his
glory, and the greatest praise and the greatest,
you might say, the best way we can bless her
is by imitating her and her virtues.
And these things will be brought out more clearly as we
have the whole picture of who Our Lady is and what she does
in the mystery of God's plan of salvation.
Let us ask in a special way Our Lady
to grant the graces to Our Holy Father and to
all those who are instruments and who
need to be open to the grace
that the importance of this dogma is so important
for our day and age, because we need that grace to help bring
about the new springtime of the faith and that
new grace for the evangelization of our
neo-pagan world in which we live. In the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.