The honouring of Mary in the Catholic Church is not only a poetic adornment of our religion. It is not why we address the Blessed Virgin so often during the Church year, that Catholicism loves poetry and that Mary is an inexhaustible subject for speakers and poets , musicians and painters.
We speak so often of Mary because she stands at the centre of the Church and of humanity, and it is not at all possible to form an organic unified concept of the human race without Mary.
For Mary is the heart, as Christ is the head of humanity.
Never in the last 6,000 years has the quest for unity, for the union and bonding of all people and peoples, occupied the mind as much as it does today. And unity can be of two kinds. One is of the Holy Spirit, the other of Satan; one is of love, the other of pride; one is organic, the other mechanical; one is Catholic, the other Masonic.
, “Do you know what today’s revolution is”- Donoso Cortes once asked. ‘The pinnacle of human conceit. The world dreams of splendid unity. Everyone and everything is possessed by a mad quest for unity.
There is, however, another drive for unity in the human race – an organic, catholic one, which derives from the Holy Spirit. Organic unity – because it grows from within, according to the laws given to men by God. Catholic – because it is universal like Catholicism and would like to embrace all nations.
The organic and catholic unity of the human race is seen in the fact that all peoples are to have one head and one heart. The head of the human race is Christ; the heart is Mary.
The unity of humanity also comes from the fact that they all have one mother and one father – Jesus and the Blessed Virgin!
It is strange that most people after 2,000 years do not yet know that they must have a father and a mother and do not yet know the name of the father and the mother.
The head of humanity is Christ. Humanity is a whole, it forms a compact, living system, one great body; just as the branches growing from the same trunk are one with the tree . If we compare humanity to a tree, Adam is its root; if we call the whole a “body”, Adam is its head; if we look at the human family as a family, Adam is its father.
However, Christ, the Son of God, by becoming man, took to Himself all humanity together with Adam , taking on human form and thus becoming a part of humanity, inseparable from it, adopted, according to the teaching of the Church Fathers, in a certain sense, all humanity.
The whole of humanity, therefore, belongs to the person of Christ, in the words of the great dogmatist Scheeben, as his body, although not in such a strict manner as his human nature. By becoming human, Christ became the head of all humanity. “And he is before all, and all things stand in him” (Col. 1:17).
We boast that we live in the age of politics. But there is no political wisdom that is allowed to violate the fundamental laws of divine order and divine authority over the world. If, therefore, as St Paul says (Ephesians 1:10), it is God’s will” to set everything right in Christ, that which is in heaven and that which is on earth”, then the task of human politics is to unite everything on earth with Christ as its head.
There is no other way to give order, good being and peace to the world. “No one will lay any other foundation than that of Jesus Christ” (1 C or. 3 , 11) . Jesus – the way, the truth and the life (John 14 , 6 ) . Any peace policy that forgets this is absurd. One cannot govern humanity without its head. One cannot rule humanity without Christ the King.
However, you also cannot rule humanity without its mother. One cannot rule mankind without its heart without Mary. Protestantism does not understand Mary it will never understand her, because it sees in her only a human individual, one of many.
Mary can only be properly understood if one looks at her in her relationship with Christ and humanity, Christ, the God-man is, as we have seen, the centre of all things: As God united to the Father and the Holy Spirit in the mystery of the Trinity; as man he is related to all creation , and especially to humanity as its head.
What God has joined together, let no man put asunder. When speaking of Christ, it is necessary to embrace Him as a whole. The whole Christ is Christ-God, Christ-man and Christ-head. The whole Christ is Christ together with those who belong to him, he and we, as St Augustine writes.
Mary must be viewed from this central point of view. She is the mother of Christ as he is, and therefore the mother of the whole Christ; – the mother of Christ, united to the Godhead and bound to humanity; the mother of the head and of the members , his mother and our mother . Obviously, as St Augustine explains, our mother by the Holy Spirit, but unquestionably the mother of the members of Christ, which we are too.
It follows that Mary’s central position stands at the very centre of the creation of humanity: Next to Christ, with Christ, for Christ.
It follows that Mary’s central position stands at the very centre of the creation of humanity: Next to Christ, with Christ, for Christ.
There is only one head. There is only one through whom all things were made. There is only one in whom all things have their first place. There is only One in Whom is all fullness, through Whom all things on earth and in heaven have been purchased and reconciled to God, because He made peace through His blood on the cross (Colossians 1:13ff.).
Mary is the heart of humanity!
As there can be no unity and peace without the head or against it, so there will be no unity and peace without the heart of humanity. And God wanted humanity to have not only a head but also a heart, and when He created the primordial cell of human society, the family, He said: “It is not good for man to be alone , Let us create for him a companion like him”.
The same applies to this family – which is humanity. If humanity were simply an organisation, it would not need a heart. However, humanity is not so much an organisation, but rather a living organic system . So it must also have a heart, a companion, an intermediary of gifts and graces, an educator and nourisher of children.
The well-being and peace of humanity therefore depends especially on Mary, because the health of a living organism depends to a great extent on the heart.
Mary is the Queen of peace! and all endeavours for peace and disarmament will come to naught without her.
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Rev. Robert Mader – Mary will prevail, St. Adalbert’s Bookshop, 1935 pp. 9 – 14
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