TOTUS TUUS, MARIA !
THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN AS THE CO-REDEMPTRIX OF HUMAN SOULS
(the following is taken from Milestones of the unique power, sublimity and glory of the Holy Virgin Mary in the passage on the capacity of Mary as Co-Redemptrix).
The Holy Virgin requests souls to commemorate Her in this capacity on Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, the day on which the Sorrow over the Messiah’s Death on the Cross reached its climax.
Mary’s capacity as Co-Redemptrix has been fiercely attacked over the years. Criticism of this capacity is extremely shameful, especially when coming from souls who consider themselves Christians. Any criticism of this capacity is tantamount to making a concession to a temptation inspired by a tremendous fear in Satan and in all the forces of darkness. Many souls fear that the recognition of Mary as Co-Redemptrix would amount to a kind of blasphemy against God, because Mary would thereby allegedly be equated with the Divine Redeemer. The Heavenly Queen points out that this view is a dangerous fallacy. This is how She explains Her position:
As of Her Immaculate Conception, God had provided Mary as a Tabernacle which, on condition of Her persevering in a perfectly sinless life, would be ready and suited to bear within Her the Christ, the Divine Man-God, the Messiah and Redeemer, and to give birth to Him in a human body destined to make available, through an all-encompassing array of trials and crosses, the Redemption for every human soul who would spontaneously and voluntarily agree to merge her will with the Will of God Himself. Mary totally fulfilled God’s expectations, and was therefore given the unique privilege of a most profound merger of Her emotional, spiritual and even physical sensations with those of the Man-God Himself. Every detail of the inner sensations experienced by the Man-God was also unlocked in the Heart of Mary, because She had to be able, in representation of all created human souls, to dwell in a state of uninterrupted nuptial union with God Himself through Her entire inner life. God granted Her this unique privilege by virtue of His infallible judgment for a specific reason and with a specific purpose:
From the very beginning, God has willed that all His Works and Plans should only be fully unlocked (i.e., that they should only be able to produce their effects in a fully concrete way) to the extent that they would find their perfect echo in the hearts of human souls. This can only be the case in human souls who strive for such a degree of purity that they actually want what God wants, in complete self-denial and without allowing any detail of their actions and of their inner life to be guided by self-interest. Apart from Mary, no human soul in the history of creation has ever fulfilled this Divine expectation so completely. No heart apart from that of Mary was ever so perfectly, so totally and so unrestrainedly opened and attuned to God that it was ready to allow every sensation, every desire, every pain, etcetera, that lived in the Heart of the Man-God, to flow over into itself fully unimpededly and to carry each of these sensations inside itself without for even one single moment desiring to be freed from all the pains that went with it.
The Heart of Mary has suffered immeasurably deeply from the countless events, situations and contacts filled with darkness through which Christ suffered during His entire life on earth. No human soul is able to fathom the depth of Mary’s inner life and of Her unity with the Heart of Her Divine Son. For this reason, Satan has no difficulty in inspiring human souls to a completely misguided interpretation of the reality of Her capacity as Co-Redemptrix.
The Heavenly Mistress states clearly and distinctly: She is in the deepest sense of the word the Co-Redemptrix next to Christ (or 'with' Christ) because God Himself has willed it to be so. This does not mean that a created human soul is equated with the Divine Messiah, but that this soul with the fullness of her life and of her being has been allowed to partake in all the Redemptive Works of the Messiah and has done so wholeheartedly and unconditionally. Mary has fulfilled this Divine desire completely, so that Her personal commitment to God’s Works and Plans, and the voluntary total merging of Her human free will with the Will of God, has granted Her the privilege of an unparalleled far-reaching merger of Her inner life with the sensations of Christ.
Mary was spiritually so highly developed that She felt to a very high degree everything that went on in fellow creatures, emotionally, spiritually as well as physically. Already during the early youth of the little Jesus She felt in Her body every pain that He Himself had to experience when He hurt Himself during play. In the days of the Passion this unique ability was fully unlocked in Her, up to and including the absolute pinnacle when, when Jesus left bodily life, She Herself suffered a cardiac arrest for a moment (which remained hidden from all human souls – everything that took place during the Passion in the Heart, soul and body of the Mother of God was known only to God and the angels; all of this is shrouded and contained in Divine Mystery). Therefore, human souls are unable to judge at all that Mary could not be a Co-Redemptrix: No human soul knows the full course and extent of the trials and the mystical unity with Christ that She already experienced during those hours alone.
Likewise, as Mary once explained to Myriam, it has never been made generally known (because She Herself emphatically prevented this in order to allow Christ to remain in full Light instead of Light being shed on Her own role in the Plan of Redemption) that She also suffered intensely in Her body during the hours of the Passion of Jesus: In an invisible way She had to experience in Her own body elements of the Passion of the Redeemer to the extent God permitted this and as far as She was at all able to physically bear it.
For this reason it is shameful that many souls are unwilling to accept that Mary is Co-Redemptrix in the true sense of the word. She emphasizes that this does not mean that She would overshadow the Passion of the Man-God, nor that She would place Herself on the same level as the Redeemer, but simply that God Himself desires that mankind should know, recognize and accept what unique role Mary has played in the 'ratification' (in representation of all human souls) of the Works of Redemption, and for what reason. She has with Her whole life borne witness to a most profound unity with Her Divine Son, and has even, out of unparalleled humility, done everything in Her power so that no human soul would be able to ascertain anything of this far-reaching unity with the Man-God.
It is precisely this latter that has enabled Satan to stir up mass protests among human souls against the recognition of Mary as Co-Redemptrix, based on the fallacy that such recognition would be blasphemous. On the contrary, the lack of recognition of this capacity is a major torment to God and an outspoken opportunity for Satan to stir up souls against the recognition of the unique sublimity of Mary as a created human soul and as a source of crushing power over himself (Satan) and his works and plans of darkness.
Years ago already, the Mistress of all souls explained to Myriam that Satan leaves absolutely no stone unturned to turn souls against the recognition of great attributes of Her unlimited power (those as Mistress of all souls, as Co-Redemptrix and others) out of a tremendous fear that the large-scale recognition of these attributes would fatally shatter his influence in creation. Any resistance to Mary’s capacities as Mistress of all souls and as Co-Redemptrix is therefore a concession to a temptation through which Satan tries to prevent Mary from fully exercising Her unlimited power over him. May souls fully understand this and no longer give in to temptations to resist the recognition of Mary’s power, sublimity, majesty and Glory.
At the service of the Mistress of all souls, Myriam.