Mary, the privileged way to Christ

Our Lady is the privileged way to Christ. As Pope Saint John Paul II taught, especially in his apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae (2002), the Virgin Mary is an "incomparable" intermediary for contemplating "the face of Christ" (10).

Indeed, we need a "mediator with the Mediator Himself" (Saint Louis de Montfort, Treatise on True Devotion to the Virgin Mary, § 85). Mary is a creature like us, so we can entrust ourselves without fear to her intercession in order to reach the Son: "If we fear to go directly to Jesus Christ, either because of His infinite greatness, or because of our lowliness, or because of our sins, let us boldly implore the help and intercession of Mary our Mother: she is good and she is tender. There is nothing in her that is austere or off-putting, nothing too sublime and dazzling. In seeing her, we see our own pure nature. She is not the sun, which by the brightness of its rays could blind us because of our weakness; but she is beautiful and gentle like the moon, which receives the light of the sun and softens it to adjust it to our small stature" (Ibid.).

This perfect metaphor of the sun, the only source of light, and the moon which reflects it, is exactly in keeping with the teaching of Vatican II on the mutual relationship between the Virgin and Christ: "For all the salvific influence of the Blessed Virgin on men originates, not from some inner necessity, but from the divine pleasure. It flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on His mediation, depends entirely on it and draws all its power from it" (Lumen Gentium, § 60).

Excerpt from: Agoravox