Zenit News reports that Javier Cardinal Lozano Barragán from Mexico, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers preached about Marian Co-Redemption in connection with the mystery of suffering and the need to unite ourselves to Jesus in the Eucharist, the only true remedy for pain. The homily was for a Mass at the St. Peters Basilica for health care workers involved in providing transportation for sick people to shrines like Lourdes and Fatima and took place on Monday, Feb 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. He was took as his starting point similar statements in Benedict XVI’s message for the World Day of the Sick. The Cardinal asked: “Is it possible to experience the suffering of Christ in our own suffering, to find therein happiness and joy?”? He said, “yes” and taking this into the Marian dimension added:
“This complete ‘yes’ of love is the Immaculate Conception of our dear Mother, Mary,” who participated “on Calvary as the co-redeemer of the Savior. […] Christ on the cross suffered all the pains that his most holy mother suffered. And she in Christ suffers all our pains, she assumes them and knows how to commiserate with us. Our suffering is also her suffering.” [emphasis added]
This represented one of the most prominent uses of this Marian title in many years.
Keep a look out here on AirMaria for Mark Miravalle’s series where in the next episode?he will have a commentary on this event and the new public request by five Cardinals to have the Bishops and Cardinals of the world sign a petition for the Fifth Marian Dogma.
Ave Maria!
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Wouldn’t the recent discovery of the exchange of cells between the unborn child and the mother be a physical proof of Mary’s role as co-Redemptrix? Apparently, not only does the mother give her cells to the baby, but the baby gives its cells to the mother. This would be a good reason for the necessity of Mary’s Immaculate Conception, but it would seem that in a real, physical way, Mary also participated in the Redemption.
Hi,
How about an article guiding the Catholic Faithful on the recent claims of a certain Marian visionary from the Philippines that “Mary is God according to the Third Secret of Fatima”?
A certain dominic sanchez falar, a self acclaimed Marian visionary, has been propagating the Mary is God belief around the internet and founded the MARY-IS-GOD CATHOLIC MOVEMENT to help him.
Such visionaries will initially be unpopular but if they gain even just a fraction of the 1 billion Catholic population, we could be seeing quite a challenge in the very near future especially for the Vatican.
kate W.
Thats a heresy, and if thats what he’s saying the apparitions are false, i think someone who knows more than me should give some sort of explanation on that.
Explanation: Mary is not God. period.
The Church has never been confused on this point.
Here is the visionary’s explanation of why “Mary is God.”
Point one: God does not have a soul; point two: the explanation is not an explanation. Reason for point two: the explanation is theological gibberish.
The next paragraphs from the “visionary” speak for themselves:
I’ll give him credit for a sense of humor, but he definitely not seeing or hearing the Blessed Mother. Don’t anyone get excited.
why not just condemn him with an excommunication? that should send a clear signal to all concerned. the church is leaving too many holes and compromises.
where does this visionary belong to? what is his diocese and who is his local bishop?
this problem has at least 4 issues:
1. the visionary’s claim.
2. the local diocese’s silence.
3. catholic’s ignorance.
4. vatican’s negligence and denial of the fatima message.
Mike,
This problem has really only one issue:
1. The visionary is a heretic. Period.
rafael,
I don’t think the vatican will react, because it simply is not warranted. The local bishop should take the matter in hand.
I suppose there are a number of individuals who might be adversely affected by a false revelation so patently contradictory of the deposit of faith and common sense, namely, contradictory of monotheism; however, I don’t see the Vatican–whatever else might be the problems in the Church–getting all excited about something so ridiculous.
Furthermore, I have my doubts as to whether this individual is even serious. I would not be surprised if he is a college creative writing student having a little wicked fun with a religious hoax. There are precedents. I really have a hard time taking him seriously. And don’t forget the thing that gives a hoaxer the most pleasure is when he can get people to believe and take seriously the ridiculous.
how about the 1 sheep out of the 100 that gets lost due to misinformation?
I agree that the local bishop should do something about it.
[The bulk of this comment and the following one consist in quotes from an unapproved and heretical private revelation. AirMaria has edited the comments by puting the quotes in blockquote format]
How would you assess this? Hallucination or insanity?
and probably this one too really bothers me…i’m interested as to what happened to this guy:
i got those from dominic falar’s website…it seems he is experiencing some really out-of-this-world-phenomenon. Can Father Angelo give some enlightenment as to the visionary’s messages from a scholastic point of view? – if this is not asking too much.
let’s assume we take all other possibilities first, such as this being a hoax, and judge the writings per see…
maybe some psychiatrist here can also assess the writer’s personality.
that would really be interesting.
correction :
let’s assume we exclude all other possibilities first.
Mike,
I respect your concerns and have allowed your comments, including the long quotes from Dominic Falar’s alleged revelations. I appreciate the fact that left unaddressed these revelations could lead souls astray; however, it seems to me, that the best way to address this problem is to give the clearest, simplest and most direct argument. The revelations the alleged seer are so preposterous, in my view, that no in depth analysis is justified, or in any way needed.
The assertion that “Mary is God” is flatly heretical. It is not only contradictory to the Trinitarian faith of Divine Revelation, but also flatly at odds with Natural Theology and the irrationality of polytheism. That is the essence of it. Problem solved.
Falar says:
This statement is on track. To bad his thought process derailed. The most basic principle of discernment of spirits is to assess whether a given belief, inspiration, desire or revelation is consistent with the deposit of faith. In regard to the consideration of Falar’s assertions, it should have taken him all of ten seconds to realize that the propositions he makes about Our Lady come from hell.
It there are those who need more of an explanation, then I would submit that what they really need is not a refutation of Mr. Falar, but some basic catechism. Falar’s writing does not deserve the attention. Best thing to do is to direct any poor soul under his influence to the First Article of the Creed and its explanation in the catechism.
I think we have gone far afield from the topic of this post.
I see your point Father Angelo. Catholic Catechism is fading away even in Catholic Schools. Thanks and until then…God Bless.