{"id":14922,"date":"2014-05-20T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=14922"},"modified":"2014-05-20T02:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:49:14","slug":"st-john-paul-ii-and-mary-as-co-redemptrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2014\/05\/20\/st-john-paul-ii-and-mary-as-co-redemptrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope St. John Paul II and Mary as Co-Redemptrix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"It is important to understand from the beginning that there is no competition between Jesus and Mary.Giving love for Mary, we are not decreasing at all love for Jesus.<\/p>\n

I present to you the thought of John Paul II.\u00a0He had a school of devotion to the Virgin Mary, in the book called: “True Devotion to Mary”, this little book was the school of holiness of John Paul II.\u00a0Many people found this\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span>holy lighthouse, a model of holiness being followed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I remember at the time that John Paul II was sick I was awake seeking news of this holy man, because I do not want to lose a moment of the Easter of this saint of our times.God has his ways, he passed away on Saturday Vespers of the 2nd Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday.\u00a0Thus joining the two devotions in one day, the Sabbath which is dedicated to the Virgin Mary of Mercy and Sunday, a feast instituted by him at the request of Jesus to\u00a0Saint\u00a0<\/span>Faustina.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Pope John Paul II gathered the largest number of people in human history, 6 million young people in Manila in the Philippines.\u00a0He was a Pope who swam against the current.\u00a0This man gave himself fully to Jesus Christ. He configured himself to Him.In the Arms of John Paul II were represented two hearts that love us.The golden cross of our Lord, who loved us with a divinely human heart, and the co-redemptive M of Mary who loves us deeply.John Paul II used the phrase “co-redeemer” seven times, let us explain.\u00a0The Church experienced a golden age of Mariology. Never has the Church developed so much Mariology (Study of Mary) in any century as in this past one.\u00a0And at this same time happened two appearances recognized by the magisterium of the Church, Lourdes and Fatima.<\/p>\n

There are two dogmas of Mary herself, Mother of God and the perpetual virginity.\u00a0But there was still a part of Mary for us.\u00a0What Mary is for us?\u00a0Mary is mediatrix of all graces, all graces come to us through Mary.\u00a0She participates in the redemption, so it is co-redeemer, as part of the redemption as any other saint participates.<\/p>\n

Maria is a member of the Church, but she is also the mother of the Church.\u00a0It seems contradictory, but it is not.\u00a0When we look at Mary in relation to the Father \u00a0she is like us, but in relation to Jesus she is the mother, so she is more, she is our mother.<\/p>\n

During the Second Vatican Council some priests wanted these two approvals in respect of the Virgin Mary, as the Council was pastoral and ecumenical, these dogmas were not approved.\u00a0After the council, theology about Our Lady was diminishing, until we get to the 80’s, where one theologian said that we were in the “Ice Age of Mariology”.\u00a0Coming up Pope John Paul II, the Marian Pope wanted to rekindle our devotion to the Mother of God.<\/p>\n

Mary at the foot of the cross, co-redeemer.\u00a0There is salvation in no other name but in Christ Jesus.\u00a0When we call Mary Co-redeemer, we are not saying that he saved half or 99% of humanity and Mary saved elsewhere.\u00a0Not this!\u00a0Jesus saved all mankind, 100%.<\/p>\n

God could make redemption come into the world by a decree.\u00a0He could save us by a decree, a snap, but he would not do that.\u00a0It would be humiliating for the man.\u00a0Sin entered the world through one man, and it was necessary that sin be removed from the world by a man.<\/p>\n

At first I was not one the man in the garden when they sinned.Theologically, according to the Patristic Fathers, Jesus is called the New Adam, and Mary the New Eve; this is from the time of the Apostles. Damnation entered the world through Adam, salvation entered the world through Jesus.\u00a0And destruction entered the world through Eve salvation entered the world through Mary.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

An angel visited a virgin betrothed to a man, who is this woman?\u00a0Eve The woman who was visited by an angel, and this angel was Satan and disobedience entered the world.\u00a0Years later, an angel visited a virgin betrothed.\u00a0Who is this woman?\u00a0Mary was visited by the angel Gabriel.And salvation entered the world.<\/p>\n

In heaven God could not suffer, could not suffer a passion and death, because in heaven there is no suffering, there, nobody dies.\u00a0In his divine goodness, God willed that Mary collaborated with Christ giving the body He was about to sacrifice on the cross.<\/p>\n

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“Adam was God made man and Jesus was God and became man.”;\u00a0Father Paulo Ricardo Teaches<\/div>\n
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When Mary saw Jesus die on the cross, she fulfilled the prophecy of Simeon, who had said at the presentation of Jesus in the temple that a sword of sorrow will pierce her soul.\u00a0Imagine the pain of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and \u00a0how much she suffered through her Son.<\/p>\n

One day there was a Virgin at the foot of a tree that wanted to pick the fruit for themselves and be like God.\u00a0So were Adam and Eve, wanted for themselves the gift of God, they wished to grab it for you.<\/p>\n

“He had the divine condition, but did not cling to his equality with God.<\/em>Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave and becoming like men.<\/em>\u00a0So presenting yourself like a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even death on a cross “Philippians 2, 6 – 8<\/em>\u00a0Adam and Eve were not gods, but wanted to be God.\u00a0Jesus was God, not holding on to His \u00a0divine status. Adam was man and made himself God.<\/strong>\u00a0Jesus was God and became man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thousands of years later the woman was at the foot of a tree and there was the fruit of her womb.\u00a0She did not cling to him, she gave, offered it.\u00a0And for this reason Mary is the new Eve. Understand that Mary is not only a saint of the Church, there is a qualitative participation of Mary in salvation.<\/p>\n

John Paul II with his arms, Mary at the foot of the cross invites us to return to the faith, the devotion to the Virgin Mary.\u00a0Everyone was scared of faith in the Virgin Mary, but the saint of our times rekindle the flame.<\/p>\n

God our Father, Creator, calls us to be as collaborators with God in creation, with parents who generate their children.\u00a0Can we clearly accept that we mere humans are collaborators in creation and we can not accept that God wanted to use His creation, Mary, in salvation?<\/p>\n

Just as the moon does not have its own light, so is Mary, she reflects the light that comes from God.\u00a0She is like the moon.<\/p>\n

You may think, “Why do not we directly at the sun?” be careful not to burn your retina.<\/p>\n

Come to Mary first because the original sin makes us afraid of God, just like Adam and Eve after the sin in paradise;\u00a0When God descends in the evening breeze they are afraid of God.\u00a0When we place ourselves under the mantle of Our Lady we are welcoming the solution that God himself has given us.\u00a0God’s Word says the pregnant woman about to give birth to a child and the old serpent is expecting this woman to give birth to a son he’s ready to devour.\u00a0This woman is Mary.<\/p>\n

Intellectually we give our lives to God, but not our hearts.\u00a0We need to deliver them to Mary, so we do not have them.\u00a0She is a poor woman keeping nothing for herself, automatically surrender it to Jesus.\u00a0When we give our hearts to Mary she delivers them too.<\/p>\n

Intellectually I know that God’s love is infinite, is perfect.\u00a0But inside of the heart we do not understand this and this is a consequence of original sin.When we give something to God, the head understands, but the heart flounders.<\/strong>\u00a0It Should not be so, but it is!\u00a0And God knows our limitations.But nothing can shake the lordship of Jesus, not our surrender to Mary, because she does not retain she gives us to her Son.<\/p>\n

The problem is not in the sun, but in my eyes.\u00a0Because they are sensitive, looking directly at the sun burns the retina.\u00a0The problem is not the love of God, but in my limited ability, reflecting the original sin that was in me.\u00a0The consecration to the Virgin Mary by definition, is the consecration to Jesus, Incarnate Wisdom.\u00a0What in \u00a0truth is actually desired in the consecration to the Virgin Mary is that people submit to the Lordship of Jesus through the hands of the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n

Many people do not understand when Jesus calls Mary “woman”, think it is a neglectful act of Jesus.\u00a0But what He said in calling her that, is that Mary is not just any woman, but she is WOMAN from the beginning who was in the plan to collaborate with salvation.\u00a0And she repeats the scene of the Garden of Eden, the woman under the tree now does not take the fruit for herself but to deliver.<\/p>\n

At the Cross, Jesus gives Mary to the son, and delivers the child to the mother.\u00a0From there John welcomes Mary intimately.\u00a0Thus Jesus’ defeats the Devil.\u00a0Since there is no heaven without the cross God knows the ways for their children to embrace the cross in order to reach salvation.\u00a0Knowing that surrendering to Mary one would no longer be afraid of the cross, we would not fear to abandon ourselves to God, Jesus gives our mother to us.<\/p>\n

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Transcription and adaptation: Rog\u00e9ria Nair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Father Paulo Ricardo<\/b><\/p>\n

Priest of the Archdiocese of Cuiab\u00e1 (MT)<\/strong><\/i><\/span>\u00a0
\n<\/i>www.padrepauloricardo.org<\/a><\/strong><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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