Word: intercessor
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...wonderful to see Mary on TIME's cover. She is humanity's greatest friend and intercessor but never takes or shares the place of Jesus. Discussing her role as intercessor, however, without mentioning her apparitions and the miracles associated with her at Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, etc., is akin to discussing Christ without mentioning his Passion. Frank Buono New York City...
...divine person. Catholics revere Mary the same as they love an elder, affectionate and powerful sister, and that is enough to give them happiness. Jacques Euzeby Marcy l'Etoile, France It was wonderful to see Mary on TIME's cover. She is humanity's greatest friend and intercessor but never takes or shares the place of Jesus. Discussing her role as intercessor, however, without mentioning her apparitions and the miracles associated with her at Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, etc., is akin to discussing Christ without mentioning his Passion. Frank Buono New York City Yet another issue of time that made...
...WONDERFUL TO SEE MARY ON TIME's cover. She is humanity's greatest friend and intercessor but never takes or shares the place of Jesus. Discussing her role as intercessor, however, without mentioning her apparitions and the miracles associated with her at Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe and other locations is akin to discussing Christ without mentioning his Passion...
...pointedly awarding Mary the appellation "God bearer." The dramatic title pulled her center stage; at the same time, the new emphasis on Jesus' less knowable side caused his role as a kind of ombudsman for humanity to shift somewhat onto his mother's reassuringly human shoulders. Mary as intercessor percolated for several centuries in the Eastern church before exploding in the medieval West. There, fueled as much by folk devotion as by church leaders, her cult eventually can be said to have run wild ("Mary so loved the world...that she gave her only begotten son," ran one prayer), providing...
...wintertime in Cambridge comes again. Returns the unrelenting fluid flush, that sweeps along the walks and wets the well-healed souls of those who in the hour of peril venture forth. O, to be depourvu, bereft, and rid of that unwelcome intercessor in these parts, whose subtle liquid motions bring discomfiture and weight depressing on our hearts. O, to be witness and delighted benefactor of efficient snow removal would elicit nightingale-like our most heartiest approval. Banish then the ibis of the wood, return the hush; banish then the offal of the slopping through the slush...