Respect Your Elders
One day a roofer noticed an old lady sit down on a chair outside of the house he was roofing where she began to say the rosary. He decided to have some fun, so he called down, "Hey lady, this is Jesus. What do you want?" The old lady ignored him, so he called down again, "I said, this is Jesus. What do you want?"
Still no response from the old woman. When the roofer tried one more time, the lady looked up and said, "Will you be quiet? I'm talking to your mother."
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"This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfilment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation...Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix." (Catholic Catechism Par 969)
"Mary's function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin's salutary influence on men...flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on his mediation, depends entirely on it, and draws all its power from it." "No creature could be counted along with the Incarnate Word and the Redeemer; but just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a maniford cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source." Catholic Catechism Par. 970)
Still no response from the old woman. When the roofer tried one more time, the lady looked up and said, "Will you be quiet? I'm talking to your mother."
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"This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfilment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation...Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix." (Catholic Catechism Par 969)
"Mary's function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin's salutary influence on men...flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on his mediation, depends entirely on it, and draws all its power from it." "No creature could be counted along with the Incarnate Word and the Redeemer; but just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a maniford cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source." Catholic Catechism Par. 970)
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