Mary is the Path to Jesus

The Blessed Virgin speaks about Jesus Christ in her apparitions from four main perspectives: (1) as the Sorrowful Mother; (2) as an educator; (3) as a messenger; (4) as an evangelizer. Mary is the Sorrowful Mother who is distraught by the sufferings of her Son. She asks us to make atonement for the wounds inflicted to him. As an educator, Mary is the mother of her Son's brothers and sisters whom she must educate in the faith and holiness. Mary is also her Son's messenger in every age applying his teaching in that period in history (cf. Fatima, July 17, 1917). Last, but not least, Mary is an evangelizer leading to her Son those who do not know him. Mary is truly the path to Jesus if we look at her different roles in this way. Historians believe that through Mary's apparitions in nineteenth-century France alone, she did more to preserve the faith than any apologist.