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This week Fra Joseph explains how Mary is prefigured in the Old Testament by Rebecca the mother of Jacob and the husband of Isaac. Come see how he connects this story with the Marian Doctrines of the Coredemption and Mediatrix of All Graces.

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Fr. Elias presents the 8th International Symposium on Marian Coredemption which is being held at Fatima July 17-19th by the Franciscans of the Immaculate in union with the Day with Mary apostolate in England. This year’s theme is Co-redemption as key to a correct understanding of Redemption. The symposium can be combined with a pilgrimage to Fatima from July 12-20

This symposium is part of one of our primary apostolates, promoting the Dogmatic declaration of Mary as Coredeemer, which this year will be combined with an initiative by Dr. Mark Miravalle at Vox Popoli to gather signatures for a petition to present to Pope Benedict XVI. This initiative was spear headed by over forty Bishops and Cardinals who believe we are in great need of Mary’s help. You can read the letter by Mark Miravalle about how you can submit your petition to the Holy Father and how these Bishops and Cardinals have already done so. And, you can see the book on the acts of a special symposium held on May 3rd to the 7th, 2005 in Fatima, Portugal led by these Cardinals and Bishops that the Franciscans of the Immaculate helped arrange and which led to this new petition initiative.

Mary, Unique Cooperator in the Redemption Why Mary should be dogmatically declared as Coredeemer Authored By Nine Cardinals of the Church and other Major Marian Theologians

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The AirMaria crew is on the road (en route to the Indiana friary to deliver our precious cargo of our own Fr. Elias Mary to his new posting) and we will be filming a host of various guests over the next few days.

Today we are in Steubenville, Ohio, and we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Mark Miravalle, Professor of Theology and Marialogy at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, for a great new series he will be doing for Airmaria on Mary – Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.

We hope to publish the first episode next week and here is a little teaser and promo for the series.

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We are so blessed to have Dr Mark Miravalle, Professor of Theology and Mariology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, host this new inspirational series on AirMaria entitled Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, & Advocate, which will present and explain these roles of Mary to help prepare the way for a possible definition of the 5th Marian Dogma.

In this first episode Dr. Mark clearly explains Our Blessed Lady’s role as Coredemptrix by first underscoring what Coredemptrix does not mean i.e. that she is not God, that she is not equal with Jesus, and that she is not the Fourth person of the Blessed Trinity.

We hope you will enjoy watching this series as much as we did filming it. We also hope that this series will help to dispel all the many misconceptions and misunderstandings of Our Blessed Lady’s role in the salvation of the human race and inspire you to greater love of Mary and her Son, Jesus.

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This week’s episode of Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, & Advocate, Dr Mark Miravalle talks about Our Lady’s role as the new Eve and mother of the human race, and her special connection with her Son regarding the enmity between the Woman’s seed and the Serpent’s seed.

Our Lady is the new Eve, and Dr. Miravalle explains with the utmost clarity and enthusiasm how she lives up to this title, by her suffering with her Son, as the Mother of Christ. Watch this episode as Dr. Miravalle brings us to a deeper understanding of Our Lady’s sacred act of Coredemption.

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In this episode, Dr Mark Miravalle talks about Mary’s act of Coredemption at Cavalry, giving us an in-depth look at how Mary’s heart was truly pierced as foretold by the prophet Simon at the Presentation. Our Lady suffered greatly along with her most holy Son at the foot of the Cross, participating in the redemption of the human race as she had done before with her humble ‘Yes’ at the Annunciation. Listen to Dr. Miravalle’s clear and impassioned presentation on this sublime subject.

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This week, Dr Mark Miravalle talks about our Lady’s role as Mediatrix of Graces, a part of which we all must partake. The title ‘Mediatrix’ does not make her equal with Christ, or make her anything above Our Lord. She willfully cooperated with God’s plan in order to distribute the many graces which Our Lord gained for mankind on the Cross at Cavalry. By her steadfast love and endurance, Our Lady gained much merit, which she gladly gives to those who implore her motherly aid.

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In today’s episode of Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate, Dr Mark Miravalle talks about the roles of the many mediators between God and humanity in the Old Testament. Like Moses’ mediation between God and the Israelites, Mary is mediatrix of all graces by her holy act of bringing Christ, our redeemer, to us as both God and man. View Dr. Miravalle’s insightful reflections on mediation both Old and New.

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In this episode Dr Mark Miravalle addresses ecumenical concerns related to the Catholic Doctrine of Mary as Mediatrix of all Graces. He points out that honoring Mary does not take away from the honor we give to Christ but rather adds to it. Come listen to Dr. Miravalle as he takes us on a tour of the New Testament and shows how many times Mary mediates the graces that Jesus gives to us.

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In this episode Dr. Miravalle explains Mary’s title of Advocate. Come listen to this talk as he gives the context of this title relative to the other titles of Coredemptrix and Mediatrix, what the early Christians believed and how it is foreshadowed in the Old Testament.

Advocacy in the context of Coredemption and Mediation:

Coredemption: Mary suffers as her Son dies on the Cross and so participates in winning graces.
Mediation: Mary distributes to us the Graces won in the redemption (from God to man).
Advocate: Mary speaks on behalf of Christians to God about our needs (thus communicates from man to God)

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