“With equal truth can it be affirmed that, by the will of God, nothing of the immense treasure of every grace which the Lord has accumulated, comes to us except through Mary . . . . How great are the wisdom and mercy revealed in this design of God . . . Mary is our glorious intermdiary; she is the powerful Mother of the omnipotent God . . . This design of such dear mercy realized by God in Mary and confirmed by the testament of Christ (John 19:26-27), was understood from the beginning and accepted with the utmost joy by the holy Apostles and the earliest believers. It was also the belief and teaching of the venerable Fathers of the Church. All the Christian peoples of every age accepted it unanimously . . . There is no other reason for this than a divine faith.” - Pope Leo XIII from his encyclical “Octobri mense”.I believe she could be the mediatrix of some graces the way any other saint can be through their intercession. I don’t believe she is some sort of universal mediatrix of grace. Something so important to the faith cannot be completely absent from the Bible and the Fathers. I don’t have a problem with a catholic practicing the spirituality of Montfort if they choose but that spirituality shouldn’t be mandated to the whole Church
Excellent post. Like cihldren, we turn to our Mother for every need.“With equal truth can it be affirmed that, by the will of God, nothing of the immense treasure of every grace which the Lord has accumulated, comes to us except through Mary . . . . How great are the wisdom and mercy revealed in this design of God . . . Mary is our glorious intermdiary; she is the powerful Mother of the omnipotent God . . . This design of such dear mercy realized by God in Mary and confirmed by the testament of Christ (John 19:26-27), was understood from the beginning and accepted with the utmost joy by the holy Apostles and the earliest believers. It was also the belief and teaching of the venerable Fathers of the Church. All the Christian peoples of every age accepted it unanimously . . . There is no other reason for this than a divine faith.” - Pope Leo XIII from his encyclical “Octobri mense”.
In connection with this remarkable passage we would like to make the following observations:
1.) The truth proposed by Pope Leo is: the will of God is that we obtain absolutely everything through Mary.
2.) The encyclical is addressed to the whole Church.
3.) The Pope appeals to the universal belief of the Church from the Apostles to our own day, thereby officially interpreting tradition. This unanimous consensus of the Ecclesia docens with the Ecclesia discens in a matter that could not be learned except through revelation is a guarantee that God did reveal it.
4.) Pope Leo gives us to understand that God implied this truth in the Annunciation pericope (Luke 1:26-38), and also in the proclamation of Christ from the cross, as narrated in St. John’s Gospel (19:26-27). Therefore, the doctrine is based on the written word of God.
Source: Armand J. Robichaud, S.M. - “Mary, Dispensatrix of All Graces”
Jesus is like us in all things but sin. We receive grace from the Divine Nature, so therefore the human nature of Christ receives grace from the Divine Nature. His human nature cannot both have grace and never have received that grace from the Divine Nature. His human nature has grace, and therefore must have received grace.Since grace is a participation in nothing less than the divinity of God himself, and Jesus is God, he did not receive grace as he is divine. Mary received grace. Jesus is Grace, always was, is and will be. Yes, he had grace in his humanity, because he is God, grace itself.
Deacon Ed B