THE IMMACULATA-

MEDIATRIX OF ALL GRACES

The first few words of the Angelic Salutation alone, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee…” contain beautiful truths about the immense dignity and role of the Mother of God in God’s plan for the redemption and salvation of mankind. Everyday, many Catholics recite the Ave Maria, but few actually pause to ponder carefully on the meaning of each word. What does it mean when we salute the Blessed Virgin Mary as “full of grace”? What does the phrase “the Lord is with Thee” signify? How can we connect these phrases in the Ave Maria to the rest of Catholic teaching and Scripture?

This booklet provides the answers to these questions above with its historical and discursive approach to the subject of Mary Immaculate and Divine Grace. Readers realize or are reminded that the Catholic Church has been invoking the Blessed Virgin Mary for not only every kind of grace, but every single grace in particular.

The Catholic Church honors our Blessed Mother with the heavenly title, “Mediatrix of all Graces” because Our Lady truly has been appointed by God to distribute all types of graces to us sinners. Mother Mary is the aqueduct through which graces from God must pass through. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the one and only channel dispensing graces to mankind and leading us all back to God. The Immaculata’s God-given role to pour out graces of conversion and sanctification to all sinners has been echoed among the early Christians, the Fathers of the Church, since the very founding of the Church by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Throughout the centuries, Mary Immaculate’s role as the Neck connecting us members of the Mystical Body of Christ to Her Divine Son, the Head of the Church, remains ever important amidst the numerous persecutions of the Catholic Church. Moreover, St. Maximilian Kolbe’s acknowledgement of the truth of Mary’s mediation of Divine Grace formed the fundamentals of the Militia Immaculatae (M.I.) as members of the M.I. are merely instruments who rely on Mary Immaculate to dispense graces of conversion and sanctification for themselves and their neighbors.

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MARIAN MEDITATIONS - Part ll

In the second volume of his “Marian Meditations”,
Father Idelfonso Villa, SDB makes us contemplate the
Mother of God from Christ’s cradle to His burial.
At long last, Mary sees the face of the Word
Incarnate, Her divine Son. A few adore Him in His
manger and in the Temple of Jerusalem. And yet,
how true the words of Simeon that “this child shall
be a sign of contradiction”. Exiled in Egypt, He then hides Himself at Nazareth. Mary and Joseph silently marvel at God’s wisdom, goodness and beauty.
The Woman of Genesis obtains the start of Christ’spublic mission and the gift of faith for His disciples.
She now remains quiet in the background. And yet, while His disciples hide, She openly side with
Jesus during His salvific Passion. The Woman of the Apocalypse suffers the pangs of childbirth and becomes
the Mother of Christ’s many brethren and their Co-Redemptrix. When “all is consummated”, the
Sorrowful Mother longs for the Resurrection of Her divine Son.
Fr. Benoit Wailliez, SSPX

MARIAN MEDITATIONS -Part lll

In the third volume of his “Marian Meditations”,
Father Idelfonso Villa, SDB makes us contemplate
the Mother of God from Christ’s Resurrection to Her
coronation in heaven.
Our Lady’s faith is rewarded by the Resurrection
of Her divine Son and His visit to Her in the early hours of Easter Sunday. How She must have longed
to go with Him to heaven right away, on Ascension Day! But She is the Mother of the Church and She
ought to be present at Pentecost with St. Peter and the other apostles. St. John faithfully takes Mary to his own. And while on earth, Our Lady keeps giving way to Her Son and His representatives. But from heaven which She triumphantly enters, body and soul, Christ’s power, wisdom and love are given Her to act outrightly as universal Mediatrix of all graces. “To
know Mary, you must know Her Heart”, Father Villa concludes. “The more you study Her love, the more complete your knowledge of Her will be. A sweet consideration indeed and a sweet devotion too.”

Fr. Benoit Wailliez, SSPX