Mediatrix of all graces
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The Second Vatican Council referred in its document Lumen gentium to Mary as "Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Adjutrix and Mediatrix".
Proposal for dogmatic definition
In 1896, French Jesuit priest René-Marie de la Broise interpreted
In the Catholic Church there are many levels of teaching, the highest of which is a dogmatic teaching. Nonetheless, there are also definitive teachings that have not been declared as dogmas, but could be declared as a dogma in the future:
"The fact that these doctrines may not be proposed as formally revealed, [...] in no way diminishes their definitive character, which is required at least by their intrinsic connection with revealed truth. Moreover, it cannot be excluded that at a certain point in dogmatic development, the understanding of the realities and the words of the deposit of faith can progress in the life of the Church, and the Magisterium may proclaim some of these doctrines as also dogmas of divine and catholic faith."[5]
— Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican
In 1928, the encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor of Pope Pius XI prayed the Virgin Mary as "the advocate of sinners, and the minister and mediatress of grace."[6]
Celebration in Belgium
In
In response to petitions from Belgium, including one signed by all its bishops, the
Scholarly opposition to dogmatic definition
Despite requests for a new Marian dogma, the Fathers of Vatican II and the Popes who presided at the Council,
In August 1996, a
Continued campaigning
Groups of laity and clergy, what has been called "a small but growing movement", continue to operate for proclaiming the
In December 2019, at a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Francis said in referring to a picture of La Morenita that three terms came to mind, woman, mother and mestiza; the latter because "Mary makes God a mestizo, true God but also true man.” He also discouraged proposals for a new dogmatic title. "“When they come to us with the story of declaring her this or making that dogma, let’s not get lost in foolishness [in Spanish, tonteras],” he said."[17]
Devotion in the Philippines
Among
The apparition is well known in the Philippines and among the
Mystic / stigmatist Emma de Guzman, foundress of the “La Pieta” International Prayer Group, which had received local ecclesiastical approval at one time,[20] said that Mary had declared herself to be "the Mediatrix standing in front of the Mediator".[21] This ruling by the local bishop was overruled in May 2016 by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith declared that it had rejected the local authority's decree citing Pope Pius XII's statement in 1951 that the apparitions "were not supernatural in origin" to be definitive. [22]
References
- ^ "Catechism of the Catholic Church, #969".
- ^ Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Iucunda Semper Expectatione, 8 September 1894
- ^ Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Octobri mense, §4, 22 September 1891;"by the will of God, Mary is the intermediary through whom is distributed unto us this immense treasure of mercies gathered by God,"
- ISBN 978-1-60114061-6), pp. 51–52
- ^ "CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Doctrinal Commentary on the Concluding Formula of the Professio fidei".
- ^ "Miserentissimus Redemptor".
- ^ Anglican Theological Review, vol. 5, p.130, Columbia University Press, 1923
- ISBN 1-57918-355-7. page 448.
- ^ See, for instance, the 1957 printing and a late-1920s printing.
- ^ Calendrier liturgique francophone 2010-2011
- ^ "Lumen gentium, 62". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- ^ L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English 25 June 1997, page 10
- ISBN 978-1-882972-06-7page 51
- ^ "Voice of the People for Mary Mediatrix". Retrieved 2008-10-09.
- ^ "ZENIT - Cardinals' Letter Promoting Marian Dogma". Archived from the original on 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
- ^ Robert Moynihan, "Is the Time Ripe for a 5th Marian Dogma?" in ZENIT, 1 March 2010 Archived 3 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ San Martín, Inés. "Pope calls idea of declaring Mary co-redemptrix ‘foolishness’", Crux, December 13, 2019
- ^ "Letter of Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles, 17 April 2005". Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- ^ Office of the Ambassador of the Philippines to the Vatican, Pope Paul VI residence - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4uNvPfw2lk
- ^ /Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, Endorsement of pilgrimage, 1 August 2007
- ^ [2] June Keithley Castro, "Messages from Mama Mary" in Philippine Daily Inquirer, 16 September 2012]
- ^ [ editor), Lito B. Zulueta (Arts & Books. "Vatican overrules Batangas bishop; declares 1948 Marian apparitions not genuine".