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First Saturdays Devotion 14 The Mystical Body & The Mass 20 Catechism Light of the World 24 Ite Missa Est Society of St. Pius X in Great Britain and Scandinavia Chronicle 28 Liturgical Calendar 38 Year Planner 2020 43 Mass Times 44 Addresses 46 5 CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 7 Editorial Co-Redemptrix Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani, District Superior My dear faithful, How the title is applied to Mary In this time of Eastertide we rejoice because the price of our liberation Mary as Co-Redemptrix must not from slavery and eternal death has be conceived in the sense of Mary’s been paid by the blood of the God- part in the Redemption being equal Man, Jesus Christ. or even of the same order as the part played by her Son who is the We manifest our joy and gratitude sole Redeemer of humanity. As she not only to Our Lord, but also to herself required redemption and His mother for, by His Divine or- was indeed redeemed by Christ at dinance, He chose Mary to assist the moment of her conception, she Him in this work of redemption, so could not merit herself the grace of much so that she is rightly accord- redemption. ed the title of Co-Redemptrix of all mankind. It seems that the best way to under- stand Mary’s title of Co-Redemptrix is to first distinguish between the Objective Redemption and the Sub- jective Redemption. 6 May - June 2020 The Objective Redemption was the Mary co-operates in the Subjective act of Our Lord that merited the re- Redemption by being the universal demption of all mankind. That act mediator of the fruits of the Ob- embraces not only the Passion, but jective Redemption and, since her also the His Incarnation, Life, Res- Assumption, the dispenser of the urrection and Ascension into heav- fruits of the Objective Redemption. en. No men are saved actually (in actu) by the Objective Redemption, Co-operation in the Objective but only potentially (in potentia). Redemption To be saved, a man must have the Mary’s co-operation in the Objec- fruits of the Objective Redemption tive Redemption was a pre-eminent applied to his soul. This applica- participation in the act of redemp- tion of the fruits of the Objective tion of her Son. Mary prepared the Redemption is called the Subjective Victim, offered the Victim - not as Redemption and occurs chiefly the Priest, but by joining her will to through the sacraments. the will of the Priest – and suffered with the Victim through her emo- Mary co-operated in the Objective tions to the point of physical pain. Redemption because she gave birth She participated in the physical to the Redeemer, voluntarily de- and emotional act of her Son, but voted her whole life to the service it was only His act that objectively of the Redeemer, and, under the redeemed mankind. Cross, suffered and sacrificed with Him. Pope Pius XII says: In fact, we rightly say that the salv- ific effect of Our Lord’s sacrifice in- She offered Him on Golgotha to cluded all the graces that Mary re- the Eternal Father together with ceived: her immaculate conception, the holocaust of her maternal her Divine motherhood, her virtu- rights and her motherly love like ous life and her very participation a New Eve for all children of in the act of the Objective Redemp- Adam. (Mystici Corporis 1943) tion. The Sacrifice of her Son alone merited the graces of atonement for As the New Eve, she is the sub- Original and actual sin such that lime associate of our Redeemer. the impulse for every supernatural (Munificentissimus Deus 1950). act of Mary was actually a fruit of 7 Editorial the redemption wrought by her Son. Honoured through the cen- turies Co-operation in the Subjective Redemption Mary has been honoured as the Our Lord alone offered the sacrifice Co-Redemptrix since the second of atonement on the Cross. Thus, century. The title is not explicit but Mary has no claim to the title of is necessarily implicit in her being “priest”, for Christ alone merited called “The New Eve”. St. Irenaus de condigno (in justice) the grace (+202) says: of Redemption of the whole human race including Mary. Mary’s act As she [Eve] who had Adam as of co-operation in the act of the her husband , but was neverthe- Objective Redemption merited de less a virgin, was disobedient, congruo (according God’s free will) and thereby became the cause of that she be made the dispenser of death to herself and to the whole the redemptive grace of Christ. of mankind, so also Mary, who had a pre-ordained husband, and Hence, because of her co-operation was still a virgin, by her obedi- in the act of the Objective Redemp- ence became a cause of her own tion, she is granted the privilege salvation and that of the whole (merits de congruo) to co-operate human race. (Adv. haer. III 22,4) in the Subjective Redemption of mankind, on which account (as In the century before the Second well as for her Divine maternity), Vatican Council, Mary’s role as she is rightly hailed as the Media- Co-Redemptrix has been both hon- trix of all Grace. oured implicitly and explicitly by the popes, from Pius IX, the Pope In summary, Mary is Co-Redemp- of the Immaculate Conception, to trix by both her physical and emo- Pius XII, the Pope of the Glorious tional participation in the act of Assumption of Our Lady. Redemption wrought by her Son and by her role as the universal dis- For example, as a recurring echo penser of the fruits of this act. through time, Pope St. Pius X teaches: 8 May - June 2020 Our Lord OBJECTIVE REDEMPTION grace Hidden and Passion & Incarnation Resurrection Ascension Public Life Death Our Lady grace Immaculate Participation in the Life & Mater Dei Assumption Dispenser of Graces Conception Death of her Son Mother of Participation Merited de the Source of in the act of congruo Grace Redemption Mother of souls in a title state of grace Mary Co-Redemptrix Mother of the Church SUBJECTIVE REDEMPTION OF title MANY SOULS (PRO MULTIS) Mary Mediatrix of All Grace Diagram showing that Our Lord is the unique author of grace and that Our Lady's titles of Mediatrix of All Graces, and Co-Redemptorix derive from her Divine Maternity and her participation in the act of the Passion. 9 Editorial As the result of this participation Council Fathers voted against a between Mary and Christ in His schema prepared on the Blessed sorrows and His will, she de- Virgin Mary as Mother of God and served most worthily to be made our Mother. Instead, the Council’s the restorer of the fallen world,” teaching on Mary was reduced to and so the dispenser of all the forming the eighth chapter of Lu- gifts which Jesus procured for us men Gentium, the Constitution on by His death and blood.