A Chairde,
I applaud anyone who wants to defend the sovereignty of God in these latter days, but Catholics are neither Muslims, who so zealously defend God's "aloneness" that they damn all Christians to Hell and even have Muhammad boast about raping the Blessed Mother in Heaven, or Presbyterians, who in their defense of God's sovereignty created a dour parody of the Faith.
Look, the Lord God – for many reasons, I'm sure, but it is so frustrating most of the time – works His salvation history THROUGH PEOPLE. It drives us all crazy to have to go to a priest for the sacraments when too often the anointed cleric, standing in persona Christi, doesn't seem to understand what he's celebrating nor celebrates them in a holy and "vertical" way. Or how maddening is it to know the True Faith and have to sit through sermons consisting of gummy bear spirituality.
Very, very rarely does God directly act, as He did with that crazed firebrand known as Saul of Tarsus. Most of the time, "faith comes through hearing" mere mortals, inspired by the Holy Ghost. God wants us to work together and comprehend our togetherness, our dependency on each other and how our salvation "plays out". Just as He created Israel, and then preserved Juda, even bringing it back from Babylonian exile through the mediation of Cyrus the Great, a Persian, so He raised up the New Israel, the Church, of which salvation is not possible apart from (unless God so wills it, but we cannot presume on His mercy).
And we are surrounded by a cloud of Heavenly witnesses (Hebrews 12:1), on Earth and in the Spirit, and the most powerful is His Co-Remptrix, without whose freely willed "Fiat" the Incarnation would not have been possible. She is the single most important human being ever born (as Our Lord is both Human and God Himself) and she is the entire point of the whole history of Israel: a teenage Jewish girl named after Moses sister was the fulcrum of all merely human history and she by her faith Our Lord bestowed on her beforehand undid the catastrophe of Eve's betrayal. She it is, who does the will of the Father first and foremost, and thus is His Mother (St. Matthew 12:47-49) in that way as well as being the physical mother of Joshua of Nazareth, Who is both God and Man. But she also influences Him where He might not act (the Wedding at Cana: St. John 2:1-8). She is also OUR Mother because when we receive the Lord through the Most Holy Eucharist, we receive both His Human and Divine Nature, and He received His Human Nature from His mother – so WE have Notre Dame's bodily inheritance in US.
It is a mystery why God works through humanity the way He does, but so it is. I kneel before the mystery and say my Rosary (not as regularly as I need!) to His Most Blessed Mother, without whose motherly love I know I myself could not continue is the insane cesspool of a modern world that we have created.
An Préachán
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