Macierzyńskie pośrednictwo Maryi w świetle encykliki Redemptoris Mater Jana Pawła II

Abstract

The encyclical Redemptoris Mater which encyclical has as its aim bringing people to Marian religiousness and spirituality, exposes the maternal mediation of Our Lady. The Vatican Council II interprets Our Lady's Christocentric mediation as a mediation in Christ. Such a mediation takes on a pneumatological completion and personalistic interpretation. That Christocentric and pneumatological understanding of mediation presents Our Lady as being clocely united with Christ and the Holy Spirit. It is thanks to the Holy Spirit that Mary's maternity exists in the Church as an intercessory mediation, which mediation is a subordinate form of Christ's acting towards us and in us. On the other hand, the personalistic interpretation of that mediation reveals Mary's personal influence on our persons, which influence consists in strengthening Christ's activity towards us and, at the same time, intensifies our ability to receive Christ.