A confutation by Br. Alexis Bugnolo
I told you so.
To all my readers: I told you so.
To all my haters: I told you so.
To all my enemies: I told you so.
If you accept a heretic and schismatic antipope to lead you, you will end up in Hell Fire.
And to those clueless about how to find their way on the spiritual road map of life, I will give you a big hint: if it attacks our Blessed Mother, IT IS FROM HELL!
I will not analyze the offal which was published today by the pornographer who wrote 3 novels describing Jesus Christ as a pedophile.
But I will say that the Biblical Doctrine of Mary’s role in our Salvation is perfectly and precisely explained with the titles of Co-redemptrix (Corredemptrix) and Mediatrix.
And here is the Demonstration of that thesis
Here goes. I will make this explanation so easy that even a 12 year old can understand it.
Adding -ix to a word is to use it in the feminine gender.
And adding co- to a word, is to use it in reference to something accompanying.
If an industrialist says, “All my employees are my collaborators”, he uses the word in an appropriate way just as when he says, “My wife is my collaborator”, though the context sets the conditions for the full signification, since this adjective or title garners its meaning from the principal agent to which it refers.
Now in the order of human generation, we know that both father and mother contribute equally the material necessary to conceive a new human life. Thus they are collaborators in an even more special manner since each is a collaborator to another.
But in the order of artificial manufacture, the assistants to the master sculpter are collaborators to him, but not he to them.
So as regards the title, “Corredemptrix”, heretics object, because they argue, that Christ alone redeems us, and there is no one who can be called a collaborator, since that would imply that what they did was somehow equal to what Christ did.
And this argument, as you can now see, is a fallacious argument built upon an undistributed middle term. Because, to say that no one can do what Christ did, is to say that He did something which no one could work at the same level as him. Thus He had no collaborator.
But the question is, “What did Christ do? and how did He do it?”
And here we touch upon the most central Dogma of the Christian religion, which if denied or misrepresented, results in a heretical profession.
Because Christ did not redeem the world AS God, that is, He did not do a work which only God can do. Because men to can both die on a cross and offer their death for the salvation of others.
This is why the Church has always taught that Christ redeemed the world AS the Son of God, that is, He merited the redemption of mankind, because as the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity, His person or title to merit was Infinite in Dignity.
And as such, even if He offered just a in prick in the pinky of He Right Hand, that would have been sufficient to redeem the world, and merit all grace for Angels and men.
And, to this extent, we can say that what Christ did no one else can do.
But WAIT one moment! — “to this extent” here means, “to merit infinitely”, that is, to merit not only all that would ever be necessary, but all beyond all measure of all that would be necessary, without limit.
And thus, Christ merits MORE than was necessary to redeem mankind.
Now the Saints of old, who understood these things, saw here a great truth.
Because at the moment of the Redemption, Christ calls our Lady, “your mother”. But in the order of generation, “mother” means one who collaborates in suchwise that the father is a collaborator with her just as much as she is a collaborator with him.
Thus, if Our Lady did not merit as much for us, as a mother collaborates in the conception of Her children, then Christ Who is Eternal Truth and JUSTICE would have lied from the Cross in the last moment of His life.
Now, I ask you, has any Christian ever said that Christ lied?
Only heretics say such things.
They say this about Christ, when He declared, “This is My Body”, “This is the Chalice of My Blood”.
But we Catholics have never even dared to utter such blasphemies. When Christ said the most important things — outside of parables — He spoke with precision and exact and proper signification.
The Saints, therefore, who believed in Transubstantion, were also led to accord Our Lady with the titles of Mother of Christians and Mother of the Church, because they believed the words of Our Redeemer, “Behold your MOTHER”.
But, how can Our Lady collaborate with Christ in a way in which we can say He also collaborated with Her?
And Saint Thomas Aquinas gives us the answer. Christ is our Redeemer because He merited. And He merited infinitely because His Person was of infinite dignity. But Our Lady also merits, as does every Christian, since in the state of grace, we can all merit.
But Our Lady participated most intimately in the Incarnation and in the Redemption, for She was there in person, as Mother, and fully collaborated with Faith, Hope and Charity, spiritually and physically.
Now Mary, thus, merits.
And since She merits, She merits by the universal rule: that your merits are proportional to the dignity of your person.
Until you are baptized, you don’t merit except to have the next grace to lead you to Faith in Christ.
But once you are baptized, you merit as an adopted son of God. Which is a tremendous increase in your personal dignity.
But Mary’s dignity is beyond that of every other Christian. Indeed, it is beyond that of all the Angels of Heaven. For Her personal dignity is that of the Mother of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity in His incarnation as man.
Thus, Saint Thomas says that She has a quasi-infinite dignity, since by the Incarnation She enters into an ontological relationship with the Infinity of God the Son.
This means, that when Our Lady merits, Her merits are quasi-infinite. And because the quasi-infinite is more than any necessary finitude, it is always greater than a necessary which arises from a finite number.
But the redemption of all Angels and Men regards a finite number of sins of a finite number of persons. Therefore, one with an infinite or a quasi-infinite dignity can merit the redemption of all these sinners and the expiation of all their sins.
And this is why Christ, our Redeemer, and the Divine Truth, called Her, our “Mother”, because She merits for us everything which He merits for us.
This means, that every grace we have, we have from God because of Christ’s Sacrifice and Mary’s perfect and sorrowful compassion in that, as foretold by the Prophet Simeon, that “a sword of sorrow shall pierce your heart so that the secret thoughts of men might be exposed”. He did not say of some men. He prophesied in regard to Her relation to all mankind.
And Christ bestows on Her a title, “your Mother”, in relation to all who are reborn in Him.
And in this way He signifies that He has collaborated with Her in a way She has collaborated with Him, equally.
And thus it is, that it is a dogma of the Faith that Our Lady is our Corredemptrix. And it follows from this that She is our Mediatrix, that is, our #2 mediator between God and men.
And to say otherwise is to speak with the forked tongue of the Father of Lies.
To deny what these titles signify, is thus heresy. And to say that these titles should not be used is a form of iconoclasm. Moreover, to say that these words confuse, is a pure lie: because once they are explained, they not only make perfect sense, but draw all Christians to the Catholic Church.
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They hate Our Lady, because Her Soul magnifies the Lord and her Spirit rejoices in God our Saviour.
Amen!
You know it is most interesting… There was an eclipse of the moon over Rome on the night Roncalli was ‘elected’, 28th Oct. 1958. It was one of those subtle eclipses, the name of which escapes me, where the moon is still visible though shaded in part. It is a full eclipse, just ‘hidden’ from immediate view.
If you know anything of the Robber Council of 1962-65 and the way it unfolded, session by session, you would know that its target was many things, amongst them, of course, our most blessed Mother, the B. V. M.
It may interest you to know that the mysterious northern lights of Jan 25-6, 1938 (heralding the punishment foretold at Fatima, the onset of WWII) occurred 21 years after the Fatima apparitions. And 21 years later, to the day, on 25 Jan 1959, Roncalli called the Council.
Humphrey thank you for this historical analysis. I think you are the first to notice this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1938_geomagnetic_storm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council#Beginnings
Now 21 = 7 + 7 + 7
And this relation indicates that Our Lady measures time according to God’s will,
Contrarywise, the implication is that and that the enemies of God are those who measure by 6+6+6, which 6 in the Bible indicates man.
So I will add another observation, namely that if we add 3 groups of 21, to the date the first session Vatican II closed, what do we get?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Second_Vatican_Council
The first session of the Council closed on Dec. 8, 1962, with nothing decided. This was the end of the Catholic effort to stop the revolution. The next sessions would destroy that opposition.
1962 + 21 = 1983
1983 + 21 = 2004
2004 + 21 = 2025
So this year, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception will be the end of that period. And indeed, it is already obvious, that after so many years, Vatican II has produced nothing but bad, and support for it is as low as ever.
Hmm. So I think we are about to see the Revolution ended, and the counter-Revolution to begin.
Regarding ‘666’ specifically (and not speaking to the rest), that, I reason, is the mark of the beast because the number of the angels is ‘9’ (thus Psalm 90 is known as the ‘Angel’s Psalm’) as there are, of course 9 choirs. ’10’ can be regarded as a choir.
The dragon swept 1/3 out of heaven and a fallen 9 looks like a 6; this: 666.
The number of man is 6 because, in one sense it kind of looks like a 7 (when represented by dots, for example) but also because we have fallen natures. We need to ascend to the angelic 9.
It may further interest you that Jun 29 this year, the Feast of Ss. Peter & Paul was 66.667 years since the ‘election’ of Roncalli. That is, 66 years and 8 months since the 28th of October, 1958.
I believe that the papacy was restored on that day, however remains hidden from view. How, where and by whom I know not (obviously I do not speak of Mr. Provost or any other Vatican II heretic) and, before you scoff, go and re-read St. John Bosco’s 2nd prophecy and divide the number of risings of the sun by 3, the divine number.
When the papacy is restored, it will be a public fact, not something done in secret.
Pope Benedict wrote a trilogy called the the Life of Christ ,in part two he stated that from the cross Christ entrusted his Mother to the apostle John ,he stated that he never appointed her as spiritual mother of Christians I never read part three.
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Our Lady was not appointed, as that would mean She received something that was not Her own. She IS our Mother, from the moment She said, Fiat, for from that moment, She obtains a quasi infinite dignity and merits alongside of Christ all the graces of salvation.
Thanks for explaining that ,appointed was a bad choice of word ,probably entrusted would have been more appropriate .
Did you use AI in writing the above article on the merits of Mary?
Certainly not! I just wanted to write in a very simple style, the way I talk to children in Catechism class.
One other important point is that the Vatican chooses the expedience of a false ecumenism over dogmatic definitions and in so doing exercises a kind of protestant private judgment.
Another important point is that the allegation of difficulty in explanation (which I don’t buy) is not the correct measure of truth. Two scriptural examples that difficulty in explanation doesn’t equate to cancellation are Jesus’ elaboration of the Eucharist and St. Peter’s allusion to the difficult writings of St. Paul (cf. 2 Peter 3:16). Surely, the Eucharist was very difficult for the Jewish mind to understand, except by faith, but this difficulty was not by that fact a sufficient reason for Jesus to deem the teaching inappropriate.
If the birth of Jesus is understood in a typological way, then the Divine Maternity is properly viewed much more broadly than one birth at one point in time, important as that one birth in Bethlehem was.
Every increase of Christ in every person is an echo of that unique birth in Bethlehem. Both that one unique birth in Bethlehem and the many birthings of Christ in individuals are necessarily linked by typology to the Blessed Mother. Because it was She who gave birth to Christ, it is She who is involved in the progressively deeper birthing of Christ in each individual. And since that ever deeper birthing of Christ is redemptive in nature, and occurs by grace, then She is by that fact Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces, respectively.
While VII stifled the direct expression of Co-Redemptrix, it could not bury its indirect expression. It is almost humorous how the Council Fathers tiptoed around Co-Redemptrix yet couldn’t help but strongly testify to it with equivalent verbal formulations. See for yourself in Lumen Gentium nos. 56 and 61-62. FOCUS ON THE ADDED CAPS.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html
56. …just as a woman contributed to death, so also a woman should contribute to life. That is true in outstanding fashion of the mother of Jesus… For, as St. Irenaeus says, she “being obedient, became THE CAUSE OF SALVATION for herself and for the whole human race.”(6*) Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert in their preaching, “The knot of Eve’s disobedience was untied by Mary’s obedience; what the virgin Eve bound through her unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosened by her faith.”(7*) Comparing Mary with Eve, they call her “the Mother of the living,”(8*) and still more often they say: “death through Eve, life through Mary.”(9*)
61. Predestined from eternity by that decree of divine providence which determined the incarnation of the Word to be the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin was on this earth the virgin Mother of the Redeemer, and ABOVE ALL OTHERS AND IN A SINGULAR WAY THE GENEROUS ASSOCIATE AND HUMBLE HANDMAID OF THE LORD. She conceived, brought forth and nourished Christ. She presented Him to the Father in the temple, and was united with Him by compassion as He died on the Cross. IN THIS SINGULAR WAY SHE COOPERATED BY HER OBEDIENCE, FAITH, HOPE AND BURNING CHARITY IN THE WORK OF THE SAVIOUR IN GIVING BACK SUPERNATURAL LIFE TO SOULS. Wherefore she is our mother in the order of grace.
62. This MOTHERHOOD OF MARY IN THE ORDER OF GRACE continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and WHICH SHE SUSTAINED WITHOUT WAVERING BENEATH THE CROSS, until the eternal fulfilment of all the elect. TAKEN UP TO HEAVEN SHE DID NOT LAY ASIDE THIS SAVING OFFICE but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation.[15] By her maternal charity, she cares for the brethren of her Son, who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties, until they are led into their blessed home. Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.[16] This, however, is so understood that it neither takes away anything from nor adds anything to the dignity and efficacy of Christ the one Mediator.[17]
Goodness gracious, the capitalized parts of these quotes surely sound like “Co-Redemptrix” to me. For example, Co-Redemptrix slides in quite naturally and easily for “being obedient, [She] became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race” (no. 56), “in a singular way she cooperated… in the work of the Saviour in giving back supernatural life to souls” (no. 61), and “this saving office” (no. 62).
«My daughter, the reason is simple. There are five types of offences and blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
1. Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception.
2. Blasphemies against Her Virginity.
3. Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, in refusing at the same time to recognise Her as the Mother of men.
4. The blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of children indifference or scorn, or even hatred of this Immaculate Mother.
5. The offences of those who outrage Her directly in Her holy images.
«Here, My daughter, is the reason why the Immaculate Heart of Mary inspired Me to ask for this little act of reparation…»
~ Lucia the night of May 29-30, 1930 (Tuy, Spain)
I love it when Brother simply tells it like it is.
(so do i)…
St. Maximillian Kolbe specifically documented and warns about heretics attempting (and having attempted in the past) to take away the title of Mediatrix and destroy this doctrine in his stunning work, “Preparation for Total Consecration to the Immaculate.” Do not miss the reference to an encyclical by Pope Leo XIII (13) that defended the Mediatrix doctrine. I believe Francis and Prevost were planning this attack for years and that this is why Prevost chose the papal name “Leo XIV.” St. Maximillian describes such attempts attacking Our Blessed Mother as the “greatest violence!”
Please refer to pages 19 and 20 for Day Seven, It reads,
“There is no fruit of grace in the history of salvation that does not have as its necessary instrument the mediation of Our Lady” (Benedict XVI, Homily, 11 May 2007).
How great are the wisdom and mercy revealed in this design of God! The most gentle and loving Mary is truly your Mediatrix with God. Whatever God wishes to give you, He first inspires your Mother to ask it of Him — and only then is the grace given, through Her motherly hands and Heart. This truth was understood from the beginning and accepted with the greatest joy by the holy apostles and earliest believers. It was also the belief and teaching of the Fathers of the Church. All the Christian peoples of every age accepted it, and it is only by the greatest violence — and with the most tragic of consequences — that this consoling truth can be uprooted from their hearts, as the history of so many heresies against the Faith of the Church shows us (cf. Leo XIII, Octobri Mense, 22 September 1891). It is a truth so important for your soul and for its growth in grace that the whole Church, and especially the holy pontiffs, has repeated it countless times and with infallible certainty.”
Stunning how the Martyrs warn the children of the future of what is coming. God bless them forever.