If Jesus is the only Savior, what is the role of Our Lady?
The answer reveals Our Lady’s unique role in the History of Salvation—and why your relationship with Her can change the way you approach Jesus.
That Jesus is the Savior is nothing new.
But perhaps you have never stopped to think about this: God could have chosen another way to send His Son into the world.
There were countless ways He could have carried out His plan of Salvation.
Yet He chose a woman.
He chose Mary.
The Son of God wanted to have a mother. He wanted to receive His human nature from Her and come into the world through Her.
Did God need Mary?
No. But He chose to need Her!
But why did God, who needs no one, choose to need Mary?
To understand this, picture a family scene…
An 8-year-old girl has a dream, like many of us did as children: a treehouse.
Her father, who is a carpenter, is delighted to build it for her.
He knows exactly how to do it…the techniques, how to use the tools. Everything… he could do it all by himself. And perhaps he could even do it better and faster.
Instead, he calls his daughter over, teaches her, hands her a tool, and says:
“Let’s do it together.”
Why?
Not because he needs his daughter’s help.
But because he wants his daughter to take part.
It is something similar to what God did throughout the History of Salvation.
He could have accomplished everything on His own.
Yet He chose to rely on men and women to carry out His plans.
And among all creatures, no one was given a mission like Mary’s.
God chose for His own Son to come into the world through Her.
And this did not end in Bethlehem…
At Cana, when the wine ran out, it was Mary who noticed that family’s need and brought their request to Jesus.
And right there, Jesus performed His first miracle.
Later, at the most painful moment of His mission, Mary was once again beside Him: at the foot of the Cross.
It seems that throughout the entire life of Jesus Christ, God wanted to show us that Mary would not be a secondary presence in His work.
So much so that, in His final words from the Cross, He wanted to give Our Lady to us as our Mother.
Because She would always be close to Jesus.
And if God wanted Mary to be so close to Jesus during His life on earth, a question begins to arise:
Did Our Lady’s mission end when Jesus returned to the Father?
Jesus returned to the Father. But Mary remained with the disciples.
She was with the Apostles when they gathered in prayer, awaiting Jesus’ promise.
Mary was still there.
She was no longer the mother accompanying Jesus along the roads of Galilee. Now she was with those who would continue His mission on earth.
And this makes us realize something important:
Mary does not belong to the past. She is connected to the lives of those who follow Jesus.
“Is she really my mother?”
At the foot of the Cross, when Jesus said to the disciple John, “Behold, your mother”—at that moment, he represented all the followers of Christ, that is, His Church.
Jesus gave us His own Mother as our Mother.
Everything a mother does for her child, Mary does for us: She cares for us, advises and welcomes us, supports, teaches, and guides us… She takes us by the hand in moments of danger and leads us all the way.
If Mary is my Mother, how should I relate to Her?
If Jesus wanted to give Mary to us as our Mother, it is natural that He also wants us to have a true filial relationship with Her.
Good children want to be close to their mother. Good children trust their mothers and turn to them.
And it is also natural for good children to ask their mother for help and advice….
Because good mothers intercede for their children… It is like when a mother says to her children: “Don’t worry, I’ll convince your father.” Anyone who has had a good mother knows the power of a mother’s intercession.
Our Lady is the Mother of mothers.
“The heart of this good Mother is nothing but love and mercy. She desires only to see you happy. You need only turn to Her in order to be heard.”
St. John Mary Vianney
But doesn’t this distance us from Jesus?
Not at all.
Mary never takes the place of Jesus. She leads us to Him.At Cana, when the servants sought Our Lady, She did not call them to herself. She pointed them to her Son:
“Do whatever He tells you.”
This is Mary’s role: to lead her children to Jesus.
Therefore, the closer we get to Her, the closer we get to Him.
What if, instead of simply asking Our Lady for something, you entrusted everything to Her?
A true relationship between a mother and her child goes far beyond asking for help.
Of course, we can turn to Our Lady in times of difficulty, ask for Her intercession, and seek Her protection.
But we can go much further than that.
We can entrust to Her not only our needs, but our entire lives.
This surrender has a name:
consecration.
It is like a child who, trusting completely in their mother, simply places themselves in her arms.
But what does it really mean to consecrate oneself to Our Lady?
Consecration does not simply mean saying a beautiful prayer or asking Our Lady to take care of us.
It means choosing to live ever closer to Her, entrusting our lives to Her so that She may lead us to Jesus.
It is like placing a letter in the hands of someone we trust.
You are not simply handing over a piece of paper.
You are also entrusting the responsibility of making sure it reaches the right destination.
In consecration, we do something similar:
we place our lives in Mary’s hands, so that She may help us live ever more closely united to Her Son.
And it was precisely to live this surrender more deeply that St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort taught a path of Consecration to Jesus through the hands of Mary.
But how can we live out this surrender in practice?
More than 300 years ago, St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort taught a simple yet profound path for those who desire to belong more perfectly to Jesus through the hands of Mary.
We call this path the Consecration to Our Lady.
And you do not have to walk it alone.
A path that has already helped more than 2 million people consecrate themselves to Our Lady.
For decades, the Heralds of the Gospel have helped souls from different parts of the world discover true devotion to Our Lady and prepare for the Consecration according to the method of St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort.
Now, you too can become part of this journey.
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But is the consecration really for you?
If you desire to draw closer to Jesus, yes.
You do not need to be an expert in the Faith or have made great strides in your spiritual life.
Quite the contrary: the path of consecration is for those who need Our Lady’s help the most.
It is for you who want to place yourself “in Mary’s arms.”
All you need is the desire to know Our Lady better and, through Her, to entrust yourself ever more fully to Jesus.
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You now understand Our Lady’s role.
You understand why God chose to involve Her.
And now you know that you can place your life in her hands and allow Her to lead you to Jesus.
The next step is simple: begin your preparation for Consecration.
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33 Days of Preparation for the Consecration to Our Lady
Discover true devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and prepare to consecrate yourself to Jesus Christ through the hands of Our Lady, according to the teachings of St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort.
