All Graces

[badsede]

I'm sure that many of you have heard the news that 5 cardinals have petitioned the Pope to make an ex cathedra pronouncement declaring a fifth Marian dogma, that Mary is Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces.

annabellissima and I spent yestserday evening doing a bunch of web-reading on the subject. We're both ok with the title of Co-Redemptrix when

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[brotherskeeper1]

That piece of scripture that you're quote by St. Paul is basically the same in Sunday, Week III, Evening Prayer I in The Liturgy of the Hours, 4 volume set. It's a Psalm-prayer which reads "Father, precious in your sight is the death of the saints, but precious above all is the love with which Christ suffered to redeem us. In this life we fill up in our own flesh what is still lacking in the sufferings of Christ; accept this as our sacrifice of praise, and we shall even now taste the joy of the new Jerusalem."

It seems that we agree but in different terminology. That's how it's possible to say that she can do anything redemptive for us.
I can't accept this. I've been in classes and spiritual direction when this was discussed and each time I've been told/taught that

Two priests explained that 1) this is poor wording and the sacrifice of Christ was complete. What the writer intends is to show how we unite our sufferings to those of Christ, and that when we do this, our sufferings are much more beneficial to ourselves and other members of the suffering Body of Christ. There is no text to indicate that the crucifixion of Christ was not complete -- unless it comes from a heretical source. This is an example of why having a spiritual director is very helpful.