THE CO-REDEMPTRIX

The Virgin Mary is our Co-Redemptrix. She saved us together with Our Lord Jesus Christ. But at what a price of suffering! The martyrdom of the Blessed Virgin Mary is incomparably more tragic than the sacrifice demanded of the Patriarch Abraham when God commanded him to immolate his son Isaac. For the Patriarch Abraham was the father, not the mother; and because the sacrifice demanded of him was only intentional: it was not fully carried out. On Calvary, it is not the father, but the Mother, and the sacrifice is being tragically consummated. And not all at once, but drop by drop. Ineffable martyrdom! “O you who travel the paths of life, look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow.”

Fr. Antonio Royo Marín, O.P.