​

​

 

 

Note:  This site is still under construction and updates will be forthcoming. 

​​

​Who are we?

​

A coalition of laity, religious, and religious and secular priests, (all in good standing in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, to which we pledge to remain faithful) united in a crusade to defend the honour of Our Lady and her titles as Mediatrix of All Graces and Co-Redemptrix.

​

 

Join us!

​​

​

​

The Crusade

​

Our crusade is a crusade of reparation focusing on prayer, penance, and action.

​

What is Reparation?

​

In this sense, reparation means making amend for offenses against God, either one’s own offenses, or those committed by another. The Catholic Encyclopedia explains that Christ “made reparation to the offended majesty of God for the outrages which the Creator so constantly suffers at the hands of His creatures. We are restored to grace through the merits of Christ, and that grace enables us to add our prayers, labours, and trials to those of Our Lord “and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ” (Colossians 1:24). We can thus make some sort of reparation to the justice

of God for our own offenses against Him, and by virtue of the Communion of the Saints, the oneness and solidarity of the mystical Body of Christ, we can also make satisfaction and reparation for the sins of others.

​​

When viewed from the light of eternity, reparation has a note of urgency: on August 19, 1917, Our Lady of Fatima, looking very sad, told the 3 children: “Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifice for sinners; for many souls go to hell because there are none to sacrifice themselves and pray for them.”

​​​​

Of course, any and all reparations should be done according to one’s abilities and state of life.

​​​​​​

What sort of prayers should be offered in reparation for these terrible insults offered to Our Lady?

​

A) Private Prayer

1) Daily prayers for all in the Crusade –

Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genetrix.

Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus,

Sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper,

Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

Ave Maria Mediatrix! Ave Maria Coredemptrix!

​​​​

Or:

​​

We fly to Thy protection, O Holy Mother of God;
despise not our petitions in our necessities,
but deliver us always from all dangers,
O Glorious and Blessed Virgin. Amen.

Ave Maria Mediatrix! Ave Maria Coredemptrix!

​​​​

2) the Rosary - specifically offered up as an act of reparation

​​​

B) Public prayer – religious +/or priests

1) Little Office of the BVM (whole or part) on 1st Saturdays

2) 1x per month, offer up the Divine Office in reparation

​​

3 ) 1x per month, Votive Mass of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces (Extraordinary Form) or a Votive Mass of Our Lady (Ordinary Form)

​

What sort of penances should be offered in reparation for these terrible insults offered to Our Lady?

​

1) Fasting on Saturday(s) +/or 1st Saturday

2) Almsgiving, according to one’s means, in honour of Our Lady

3) Other appropriate penances

​​

What sort of actions are the Knights called to?

​​

1) Striving to remain in the state of grace at all times and to conscientiously and regularly frequent the Sacraments

2) Communions of Reparation for these terrible insults hurled against Our Lady

3) At opportune moments, and according to our abilities, explain +/or defend Our Lady’s titles as Mediatrix of All Graces and Co-Redemptrix

4) Recruit others to this Crusade

​​​

Brief explanations of Our Lady’s titles as Mediatrix of All Graces and Co-Redemptrix

​

These two titles refer to two different aspects of Our Lady’s universal mediation: Co-Redemptrix refers to Our Lady in Her role as the New Eve cooperating with Her Son in meriting the graces for the salvation for mankind, and Mediatrix refers to Our Lady in Her role distributing those graces to mankind.

 

Co-Redemptrix

​

Mary, being conceived and born without stain of sin, participated in an admirable way in the sufferings of her Divine Son, so as to be Co-Redemptrix of humanity. (St John Paul II, Audience, Sept. 8, 1982)

Hence, just as Christ, the Mediator between God and man, assumed human nature, blotted the handwriting of the decree that stood against us, and fastened it triumphantly to the Cross, so the most holy Virgin, united with Him by a most intimate and indissoluble bond, was, with Him and through Him, eternally at enmity with the evil serpent, and most completely triumphed over him, and thus crushed his head with her Immaculate foot. Bl. Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus (On the Immaculate Conception, 1854)

In very truth, the common teaching of the Doctors of the Church is that the Blessed Virgin Mary, who seemed to be absent from the public life of Jesus Christ, was, by the Divine plan, nevertheless present when He was facing death and crucified. So that with her suffering and dying Son, She suffered and nearly died and thus She renounced her maternal rights over her Son for the salvation of men and to appease the justice of God. Insofar as it pertained to her, She sacrificed her Son, so that it may be rightly said that She redeemed the human race with Christ. (Benedict XV, Inter sodalicia, 1918)

 

Mediatrix of All Graces

​

..all the graces we receive from the treasury of Redemption are administered as it were from the hands of the Sorrowful Virgin herself… (Benedict XV, Inter sodalicia, 1918)

... having been associated, as Mother and Minister, with the King of martyrs in the ineffable work of human Redemption, she is always associated, with a practically measureless power, in the distribution of the graces that derive from the Redemption... And her kingdom is as vast as that of her Son and God, since nothing is excluded from her dominion. (Pius XII, Radio message to Fatima, Bendito seja, May 13, 1946)

St. Augustine already gave the Blessed Virgin the title ‘co-operator’ in the Redemption. ...However, applied to Mary, the term ‘co-operator’ acquires a specific meaning. The collaboration of Christians in salvation takes place after the Calvary event, whose fruits they endeavour to spread by prayer and sacrifice. Mary, instead, co-operated during the event itself and in the role of mother; thus her co-operation embraces the whole of Christ’s saving work. She alone was associated in this way with the redemptive sacrifice that merited the salvation of all mankind. In union with Christ and in submission to Him, She collaborated in obtaining the grace of salvation for all humanity. (St John Paul II, General Audience, April 9, 1997)