While at Mass on January 6, normally the Feast of the Epiphany, I saw an image in my head in prayer that resembles closely the one above that AI created when I described what I saw.

As this image came over me, I seemed to have this understanding that I want to try to relay. The image was relaying to me a truth about Mary and the Church.

There is but one mediator between God and man and that is Christ Jesus. Christ brought forth the perfect satisfaction to atone for our sins, to atone for the fall, which had infinitely offended because God is infinitely good. This infinite gap, this distance between God and man, was reconciled because He is true God – which is what was needed to atone for the sin, and true man – so it atones for all of mankind.

But there was a pathway God chose to take to bring this reconciliation to us and that pathway was through the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was made immaculate by God through the prevenient grace of the Cross. But from the beginning of her existence, she prepared her heart and her soul to be receptive. A long mediation. The first place God came to on earth was the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. That is actually where the incarnation took place. The Incarnation was inside of her. He became flesh inside of her. Bone of her bone and flesh of her flesh. God was so in her, both spiritually and physically, she gave birth to Him. God did not give Himself more fully to anyone but her. She mediated for God and man; not the same way Christ did, but she was part of the plan. The plan is all God’s design. The execution of the plan required her free will consent. Her role – to point us to Him and His glory.

We humans look at things through the lens of competition as if when one good thing happens for one person, it takes something away from another. This is a deficient ungodly view. God’s view is very different. It is not a competition for God, who IS love. Because God IS love he shares His love with all His creatures. He elevates. And no one was more elevated by God than the Blessed Virgin Mary, so much so, she is given a share in His mediation. She is the pathway through which God became Man. God shares His gifts. God shares Himself. Even the Saints become mini-mediators when they spread the good news of the Gospel. It isn’t complicated to understand.

And too, the Blessed Virgin Mary represents the Church. The graces of the Sacraments, the graces of the Eucharist, come through the church, so in this sense the Church is mediating between God and man as well. This is the image I saw. I saw grace from God flowing through Mary and flowing through the church. Mary far surpasses any creature, she gave birth to the one who as the second person of the Blessed Trinity holds the universe in existence. The Church, whom she is Mother of, brings the sanctifying grace to God’s people. The Holy Spirit brings Jesus down in the Consecration, but the church is the place where this happens. God wants to share His glory with His people. He isn’t a glory hoarder.

There’s a passage in the book of Zephaniah that says;

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing as on a day of festival. Zephaniah 3:17

This is the only passage in the bible where God sings. The passage is about Jerusalem. Mary is the new Jerusalem. She is the City on a Hill. I imagine when she was assumed into heaven God was singing.

God wants to give us a share of her Immaculate Conception, so through the grace the church provides in Christ, one day we will experience the Resurrection of the Body and there will be no more tears. This is why I have repeatedly said, Consecration to Jesus through Mary is a wonderful thing. Consecration to the whole Holy Family is a wonderful thing. We can be mini-mediators and know the glory of God.

In these times of chaos, look up, and believe in the power and glory of God like Mary did.