Dear Father.
I had, about three years ago, a spiritual vision of the Most Holy Mother Mary who, blessing me with the sign of the Cross on forehead, told me “whoever passes through Me will be saved”.
I trust her in a spirit of fraternal sharing to highlight the special role of Our Lady in the Work of Salvation.
By the way, I have the grace to have a spiritual Father who follows me to Slovakia and is a Dominican Father like you.
Response from the priest
Dear friend,
1. I thank you for making me partaker of such a beautiful grace as the one you received three years ago.
I am not surprised at what Our Lady has told you: whoever passes through Me will be saved.
Jesus from the cross made Mary our mother.
And since every mother cannot provide for the good of her children unless she has the adequate resources, Jesus made her a despiser of all the graces of heaven.
As he proclaimed her mother, he made her mediator of all graces.
2. She is a mediator because she dispenses them. And she’s also a mediator because she asks them.
Well, Our Lady does not ask Jesus Christ as any person can ask.
Question like Mother, indeed with the heart of Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother in Israel was called Gebiràh.
3. The Gebiràh had a very great power, superior to that of the queen bride.
It was a power equal to that of the king as emerges from 1 Kings 2:19-20: “Bathsheba presented herself to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. The king rose to meet her, prostrated himself before her, then sat on the throne, having a throne placed for the king’s mother. This one sat down on his right and said: «I ask you only one small question: don’t reject me.» The king answered her: «Ask, my mother, I will certainly not reject you.»”
4. It should be noted that Solomon seated his mother to his right.
In the ancient East, sitting to the right of the king was the same as possessing the same power (evidently delegated) as the one to whose right one stood.
To Caiaphas who begs Jesus to tell him if he is the Christ the son of God, Jesus proclaims his divinity before the highest assembly of the nation, answering thus: “You said it – Jesus answered him -; indeed I say to you: from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven»” (Mt 26:64).
This expression recalls Psalm 110 which begins: “Oracle of the Lord to my lord: Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies on the stool of your feet” (Ps 110:1).
Here it is the Father who speaks to the Son and recognizes in him a sovereign power equal to his own.
All this makes us understand how the queen mother has a power as great as that of the Son, with this difference: that she received it from the Son, while the Son has it in his own right.
5. Pius XII in the encyclical ad Caeli Reginam recalls that just as “Christ, the new Adam, is our king not only because he is the Son of God, but also because he is our redeemer, so, according to a certain analogy, it can equally be stated that the most blessed Virgin is queen, not only because she is the Mother of God, but also because she is the new Eve associated with the new Adam.
And he affirms that “from this union with Christ comes to her such splendid sublimity, as to surpass the excellence of all created things: from this same union with Christ comes that royal power by which she can dispense the treasures of the kingdom of the divine redeemer”.
6. Not only Pius XII, but also other pontiffs of our recent times have highlighted Mary’s power in demanding and distributing the fruits of redemption.
Among these is Blessed Pope Pius IX, who says that for this universal motherhood of her “standing at the right hand of her only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, with her maternal supplications impetrates most effectively, obtains what she asks for, nor can it remain inaccurate”.
This can be read in the Ineffabilis Deus, bull proclaiming the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, of ’8 December 1854
7. Similarly his successor Leo XIII said that “the Blessed Virgin Mary was granted «almost immense» power in the giving of graces” (Adiutricem populi, encyclical of 5 September 1895).
Saint Pius X says that Mary performs this office of hers “as per maternal right” (Ad diem illum, encyclical of 2 February 1904).
8. St. John Paul II, taking up the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, recalls that the Madonna is a mother in the order of grace not only for the disciples but for all men because of the saving and universal will of Jesus: “On the other hand, the universal efficacy of the redemptive sacrifice and Mary’s conscious cooperation in Christ’s sacrificial offering, does not tolerate a limitation of her maternal love” (Catechesis of September 24, 1997).
And if “during her earthly life, Mary manifested her spiritual motherhood towards the Church for a very short time, however, this function of hers appeared in all its value after the Assumption, and is destined to extend over the centuries until the end of the world. (…).
Having entered the eternal kingdom of the Father, closer to the divine Son and, therefore, to all of us, She can exercise in the Spirit more effectively the function of maternal intercession entrusted to her by divine Providence” (Ib.).
I am glad that you in Slovakia have a Dominican father as your spiritual father. This too is a grace that Our Lady has obtained from you.
With the hope that I will grant you many more for your benefit and that of many, I bless you and remember you in prayer.
Father Angelo
