mary is the co-redemptrix
“It is with good reason that the popes have called Mary Co-Redemptrix. ‘So fully, in union with her suffering and dying Son, did she suffer and nearly die; so fully, for the sake of the salvation of men, did she abdicate her mother’s rights over her Son, and immolate him, insofar as it was in her power, to satisfy the justice of God, that it can rightly be said that she redeemed mankind together with Christ’ (Benedict XV, Inter sodalicia, 3/22/1918). This gives us a deeper understanding of that moment in the passion of our Lord, which we shall never tire of me-ditating: Stabat autem iuxta crucem Iesu mater eius, ‘there, standing by the cross of Jesus, was his mother’.”1
Let us offer our Mother today:
Five small hidden sacrifices in honor of the five major wounds of Our Lord.