Divine Mercy: The Heart of the Gospel

Mary: Mediatrix of Mercy 167 granted the role by the Eternal Father to participate uniquely with the Mediator in the distribution of every grace that flows from the Redemption as Mediatrix.1 Let us then examine a brief example o f papal teachings on Our Lady’s role as Mediatrix o f All Graces: 1. Leo XIII: - “through whom [Christ] has chosen to be the dispenser o f all heavenly graces ” (.Jucunda semper, 1883); “It is right to say that nothing a t all o f the immense treasury o f every grace which the Lord accumulated - for ‘grace and truth come from Jesus Christ’ (Jn. 1:17) - noth­ ing is imparted to us except through Mary...” ( Octobri Mense, 1891). 2. St. Pius X - “dispensatrix o f all the gifts” acquired by the death of the Redeemer (Ad diem ilium, AAS 36, 1904, p. 453); “she became most worthily the reparatrix of the lost world and dispensatrix o f all the gifts that our Savior pur­ chased for us by his death and his blood” (Ad diem ilium, 1904; cf., Eadmer, De Eccellentia Virginis Mariae, c.9); “for she is the neck of our Head by which He communi­ cates to his Mystical Body all spiritual gifts” (Ad diem ilium, 1904). 3. Pope Benedict XV: - “For with her suffering and dying son, Mary endured suffering and almost death.... One can truly affirm that together with Christ, she has redeemed the human race...... For this reason, every kind o f grace we receive from the treasury o f the redemption is ministered as it were through the hands o f the same sorrowful Virgin.... (Apostolic Letter, Inter Sodalicia, AAS 10, 1918, p. 182; Mass and Office of Mediatrix o f all Graces approved 1921). 4. Pope Pius XI: - “the virgin who is treasurer of all graces with God....” (Apostolic letter, Cognitum sane, AAS 18, p. 213); “We know that all things are imparted to us from God, the greatest and best, through the hands o f the Mother o f God” (Encyclical Letter, Ingravescentibus malis, AAS 29, 1937, p. 380). 5. Pope Pius XII: - “it is the will o f God that we obtain all