Mary's role as the Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate

                                     Mary interceding for the guests to Jesus Christ (John 2:1-11)

Many Protestants and so called, "Bible believing Christians" are saying, "Why do you worship Mary? Why give her titles like Co-Mediatrix, Co-Redemptrix and Advocate? Isn't that enough that we have Jesus as our Redeemer, Mediator and Advocate?" First, let us examine the verses that the Protestants are using:

1 Timothy 2:5, "For there is only One God and One Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus"

We have no problem with that. Jesus alone is the One Mediator between God and man. The role of Mary as Co-Mediatrix means, "to work with the Mediator" and that is also the job of the saints if we are going to read 1 Timothy 2:5 in its original context:

1 Timothy 2:1, "First of all, I desire that all prayers, requests and thanksgiving be offered to God for all people"

See? We are commanded to pray for one another and the role of Mary as Co-Mediatrix does that and it is Scriptural. If we are going to examine the Lumen Gentium, we will see that her role in working with the Mediator does not add or subtract the credibility of Christ as the Mediator. Let us examine the Lumen Gentium:

"Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked by the Church under the titles of Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Adjutrix, and Mediatrix.(16*) This, however, is to be so understood that it neither takes away from nor adds anything to the dignity and efficaciousness of Christ the one Mediator.(17*)"

The Lumen Gentium no.62 supports 1 Timothy 2:5 but it also supports 1 Timothy 2:1. Let us examine again the verses that Protestants usually quote in refutation to this:


1 John 2:1, "But if we sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One"


They are having a wrong understanding of the passage. We know very well that Jesus is the Advocate to the Father. That is why when we pray to the Father, we end up, "In Jesus' Name" or "Through Christ our Lord". Protestants are very ignorant of Catholic prayers, we don't end our prayers, "In Mary's name". When we call Mary "Advocate", she is an Advocate to Jesus Christ, the very Advocate to the Father. The Biblical foundation of that is founded in John 2:1-11 wherein Mary prays to Jesus for the guests. Jesus, though His time to reveal Himself has not yet come, did His first miracle of changing water to wine simply because He did not refuse His Mother. This is very similar to a passage in the Old Testament:


1 Kings 2:20, "She (Bathsheba) said, 'I have a small favor to ask of you, please do not refuse me' 'What is it mother?' Solomon asked, 'I will not refuse you'".

Just as Solomon didn't refuse to heed his mother's request, even so, our Lord did not refuse His Blessed Mother. And even at the foot of the Cross, aside from giving us His Blood as sufficient for our salvation, He gave us His Own Mother, not only to John the apostle.

  "Woman, behold your son! Son, behold your Mother!" (John 19:26-27)

And Protestants will often use Acts 4:12 to refute Mary as the Co-Redemptrix:

Acts 4:12, "There is salvation in no one else but Jesus, for there is no other name under heaven, given unto all by which all must be saved"

Of course we don't deny that. But we need to go back to the  First Proto-Evangelion founded in Genesis 3:15:

Genesis 3:15, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, between her seed and your seed. Her seed shall crush your head, while you bruise his heel"

What did Yahweh-Elohim said to the serpent (Satan in Revelation 12:9)? There will be enmity between him and the woman, whose offspring will crush his head. Who is this woman? Mary alone because through her fiat or "yes" to the angel's message in Luke 1:38, she cooperated with Jesus as the Co-Redemptrix (with the Redeemer), again, as I have said earlier, this does not add or subtract to the credibility of Christ as the Only Redeemer. This is being supported by the Scripture and the Lumen Gentium. The role of Mary is to cooperate with the Redeemer and just as Christ didn't refuse her as in the wedding in Cana, He will not reject her prayer on our behalf.

                          Yahweh-Elohim cursing the serpent and punishing our first parents, Adam
                       and Eve, but promised them a Redeemer who will crush the head of the serpent