SSPX Profession of Faith, Some Comments

I'll start in the Mariology section.*

49. I profess that, truly Mother of God and Mother of men, she was associated in a unique and incomparable manner with the redemptive work of her divine Son: the new Eve beside the new Adam, her Fiat opened the way to the Incarnation; her silent fidelity accompanied the entire life of the Saviour; her sorrowful Compassion at the foot of the Cross united her with one heart to the redemptive Sacrifice.52

She was also victorious of the Devil before becoming Mother of God. "Blessed among women" means female defeater of an enemy of the people of God, of Israel, as with Jael and Judith.

The only candidate for Her Sisera or Holophernes is Satan as was made clear to Her when Elisabeth completed the allusion to Genesis 3:15. But She was already Jael and Judith, or Blessed among Women, before Her pregnancy started, because She was called this in verse 28 and it is only in verse 31 that Gabriel says:

Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus

Not only sinlessness, but consequently also releasing Man from Satan starts before She actually becomes Mother of God. A Protestant has said "Mary Delivered Jesus, Jesus Delievered Mary" ... while He died for Her too on Calvary, He gave Her this delivery beforehand, so it is as true to say "Jesus Delivered Mary, Mary Delivered Jesus."

And as He was both God and a pious Son, He did so before She was even there, in the first moment of Her existence.

50. I profess that, thus united to her Divine Son, she merited by congruity in her Compassion what Christ merited by strict justice in His Passion; not as the principal cause of the Redemption, but as a subordinate associate, dependent upon and wholly relative to her Son, in one and the same act of the Redemption of our souls. It is in this sense that Catholic piety, supported by the traditional teaching of Popes and theologians, rightly calls her, by reason of this Compassion, ‘Co-redemptrix’, and consequently ‘Universal Mediatrix’.53

Rather, Co-Redemptrix is accounted for here, but Universal Mediatrix only starts here, at Calvary. Since She was assumed into Heaven, no grace has been given without Her intercession.

Precisely as Jesus, already comprehensor in this life could on Calvary itself through the Beatific Vision, be an elector of each elect man. Now, Mary reached the Beatific Vision on one August 15. Hence, She is universal Mediatrix since assumed.

52. I believe that at the end of her earthly life, she was taken up, body and soul, into celestial glory, where she reigns beside the throne of God, alongside the holy humanity of her Divine Son, over angels and men, exercising her maternal role as Dispensatrix of all Graces.54

Oh, my bad. They actually said the same thing, I was just confused by their terminology, taking "Universal Mediatrix" as "Dispensatrix of all Graces." I think St. Alphonsus uses the term "Mediatrix of all Graces" ... I found Garrigou-Lagrange** joins both Calvary and Her presence in Heaven in the term. What about St. Alphons? Not exactly in this section*** and still not exactly not:

St. Bernardine of Sienna says, that God did not destroy man after his fall,because of the peculiar love that he bore his future child Mary. And the saint adds, that he doubts not all the mercy and pardon which sinners receive under the Old Law, was granted them by God solely for the sake of this blessed Virgin.

Therefore St. Bernard exhorts us, if we have been so unfortunate as to lose divine grace, to strive to recover it, but to strive through Mary; for if we have lost it, she has found it: and hence she is called by this saint, "The finder of grace." This the angel Gabriel expressed for our consolation, when he said to the Virgin, "Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace!"But if Mary had never been without grace, how could the angel say to her that she had found it? A thing is said to be found when it has been lost. The Virgin was always with God and with grace; she was even full of grace, as the Archangel himself announced when he saluted her, "Hail! full of grace, the Lord is with thee." If, then, Mary did not find grace for herself, for whom did she find it? Cardinal Hugo answers,when commenting upon the above passage, that she found it for sinners who had lost it. ...

Well, no problem there. Wonder if Michael II will approve?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Ss. Peter and Paul
29.VI.2026

It's also St. Marcellus (patron of their founder) and St. Cassius of Narni:

Narniae sancti Cassii, ejusdem civitatis Episcopi, de quo sanctus Gregorius Papa refert quod nullus ferme dies vitae ejus abscedebat, quo placationis hostias omnipotenti Deo non offerret; cui et concordabat vita, quia, cuncta quae habebat, in eleemosynis tribuens, in hora sacrificii totus in lacrimis diffluebat.° Demum, natalitio Apostolorum die, quo singulis annis Romam venire consueverat, in eadem Narniensi urbe, cum Missarum solemnia celebrasset, et corpus Dominicum pacemque omnibus dedisset, migravit ad Dominum.

* Profession of Catholic Faith
of the Society of Saint Pius X
to enlighten souls in the face of modern errors
https://fsspx.news/sites/default/files/documents/profession_of_catholic_faith_en.pdf

** On Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. | November 6, 2025
https://onepeterfive.com/on-mary-as-mediatrix-of-all-graces-by-fr-reginald-garrigou-lagrange/

*** SECTION I. MARY IS OUR LIFE, BECAUSE SHE OBTAINS FOR US THE PARDON OF OUR SINS.
https://www.ecatholic2000.com/liguori/glories/glories11.shtml

° Sounds a bit like St. Ignatius of Loyola.