JMJ. It's a fact that Protestants have little use for the Blessed Mother. If they think of Her at all it is to relegate Her to some dark, easily forgotten corner of the room, there to collect cobwebs and dust bunnies, at least until Christmas rolls around. Then they bring Her out, dust Her off, and set Her next to the manger in the stable, there to await the advent of our Lord.
What we Catholics await, though, (since we know better!) is the pronouncement of the doctrine of the Blessed Mother as Mediatrix of all Grace. I'm sure that there are profound theological arguments in favour of this doctrine but really, we can prove this is so with simple logic. I doubt if many, if any, Christians would deny that the most stupendous of all graces of all time, the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, as a man, came to us through the express consent and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Why then, I ask, should any lesser grace come to mankind in any other way?
