Volume V, Issue 6, March 8, 2008

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- Mary Co-redemptrix and Fatima by Mark Miravalle
- Mary Co-redemptrix: The Beloved Associate of Christ by Msgr. Arthur Burton Calkins
- Mary's Cooperation in General in the Work of Redemption by Matthias Joseph Scheeben
- The Predestination of the Virgin Mother and Her Immaculate Connception, Part III by Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, F.I.
- "Work For and Ask For This Dogma" by the Lady of All Nations
- Anthology is "Extraordinarily Complete and Rich Tool" for Marian Knowledge and Devotion by Kevin Clarke

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- Mary Co-redemptrix and Fatima by Mark Miravalle

In the Church-approved messages of Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima, Portugal (1917), the Woman clothed with the sun exhorts the young visionaries and the world to "sacrifice yourselves for sinners" (1) and "to make of everything you can a sacrifice and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended." (2) It is a call for human coredemption, exemplified by its Queen.

Our Lady invites Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco to a life of coredemption for the salvation of souls: "Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the suffering He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the conversion of sinners?" (3) The children faithfully respond to this heavenly invitation to be co-redeemers, "Yes, we are willing." The Co-redemptrix in turn responds, "Then you are going to have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort." (4) It was precisely their heroic fiat to the Fatima call of human coredemption that led to the beatification of Jacinta and Francisco by John Paul II on May 13, 2000. (5)

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- Mary Co-redemptrix: The Beloved Associate of Christ by Msgr. Arthur Burton Calkins

The following article is an excerpt from a chapter in the recently published Marian anthology, Mariology: A Guide for Priests, Deacons, Seminarians, and Consecrated Persons, Seat of Wisdom Books, A Division of Queenship, 2008. Fifteen international Mariology experts contributed to the text. The book features a foreword by Archbishop Raymond L. Burke and has 17 chapters divided into four parts: 1. Mary in Scripture and the Early Church; 2. Marian Dogma; 3. Marian Doctrine; and 4. Marian Liturgy and Devotion. The book will be available from Queenship Publications in mid-February.
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Even though the explicit treatment of Mary’s collaboration in the work of redemption has appeared in ever-sharper relief in the Papal Magisterium only within the past two centuries, there is well-founded reason to say that it is part and parcel of the Tradition that has come down to us from the apostles and makes progress in the Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit (cf. Dei Verbum 8). The indissoluble link between the "woman" and "her seed," the Messiah, is already presented to us in the Protoevangelium (Gen 3:15) (1), where the first adumbrations of God’s saving plan pierce through the darkness caused by man’s sin. The identification of the "woman" with Mary is already implicit in the second and nineteenth chapters of the Gospel of St. John where Jesus addresses his mother as "woman" (2) and in the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation (3).

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