Of COURSE Christ is Mary’s savior too.
BUT. . .He saved her before she was even born.
Why is that such a difficult concept for you to grasp?
His death on the cross was also prefigured at the LAST SUPPER–which took place the NIGHT BEFORE. The bloody sacrifice on Calvary is seen in the UNBLOODY sacrifice of the Mass. Not only that–the SAME sacrifice on Calvary is seen at every single Mass. (No, we don’t crucify Christ every time, it is the same sacrifice that took place circa 33 A.D.)
You see, God is not subject to time or place. . .He CREATED them, after all. When He chose to become Incarnate, in the hypostatic union His human nature of Jesus existed as a human being, His divine nature existed, as it always had and always will, as “divine”–outside of humanity. That’s why the hypostatic union is a mystery, and that is apparently why so many posters get confused over “time” and “space” issues and can’t understand that because Christ died for all of us at a specific time and place in “earth” terms, that death outside of earth could “exist” always and forever, in essence both “retrograde” and “forward”; so that those born BEFORE Christ were saved and those born AFTER Christ are saved.
Mary was saved by Christ. . .but the salvific action in her case took place before her conception and birth. . . her Immaculate Conception and birth. That is why SHE is “the Immaculate Conception” and Jesus is “the Incarnation”. She was conceived without sin as a human; He is God incarnate and thus there was never a question of “sin” to begin with.
But I wonder if the very thing that I feel most separates Catholics from Protestants is the reason that so many have “trouble” with giving Mary the honor (not worship) she is due as Mother of God. . .and that reason IMO is that Protestants are very “egalitarian”. Their churches are run, for the most part, by committees and communities and pastors are chosen by the people, the people are ALL ministers, etc. etc. There is a big emphasis on how we are ALL sinners, etc. etc. Nobody is held up to be better than any other person. In fact, the sort of “reverse” humility that I see common is actually making people even WORSE than they are (Luther’s dung heaps covered with snow come to mind).
But Catholics are NOT egalitarian (and that is a GOOD thing!) The Kingdom of Heaven (Kingdom, not “republic”) is a monarchy, with a king, who is immeasurably above us. . .but you’ll note in the OT and NT that kings had plenty of people in a “hierarchy”. They had ministers, those ministers had assistants who had assistants etc. etc. And a person could “rise” to a position of authority. Look at Joseph under Pharoah, for example. No, Catholics are very comfortable in seeing that SOME people ARE more “worthy” in the way they FOLLOW CHRIST, and some are less. (That is not because they themselves are so great–some of them had their rotten moments, ask St. Peter and St. Paul-- but really rests in how much they have surrendered to GOD’s will in them. After all, no one can say, Lord, except by the will of the Father.) That is a fact of life. And Mary was the very best example of a person following Christ that God gave us. Part of that is shown by her humility and grace, and part of that humility and grace is indirectly seen by how “little” is in the gospels about her. She points the way to Christ. He doesn’t “need” her, but since He chose her, and God does not change, apparently He found her helpful then and finds her helpful now. Shouldn’t we be emulating God more thoroughly and taking advantage of the gift He gave us in Mary?
I say that nicely.