The universe was created by the Word of God (John 1:3) for the glory of God the Father. The Father's glory is to glorify the Son through the passion, death, resurrection and ascension into heaven, united to the human nature of Jesus Christ. The universe is then created for the sake of the Incarnation of the Word of God. But the Incarnation involves the Predestined plan that in God's providential plan, Mary would become the mother of the Word of God.
The universe is then made by the Word of God as part of a providential plan to glorify God the Father and God the Son through Mary as mother of Jesus, as the Word of God made flesh. In other words, the creation of the universe is analogous to a family action of God the Father, God the Son and Mary as mother of God the Son. For the Father wills that the Son create the universe within the divine plan, whereby Mary becomes the mother of God the Son. Through Mary becoming the mother of the God the Son, Christ is then able to complete His mission to redeem men and glorify the Father.
The Father and Son own the universe as the divine cause of the creation of the universe. The Father and Son also own Mary as the creator of Mary. But Mary has maternal authority over the Son of God and thereby has a maternal right to all that God the Son owns. As God the Son owns the universe, then so too, Mary as the mother of the owner of the universe also participates in the ownership of the universe. As Mary then owns the universe with God the Father and God the Son, Mary has a proportionate power over the universe as the mother of the creator.
Furthermore, as Mary owns the universe, she has an authority over all men and thereby has a genuine role in God's providential plan for all men. All men are then born, live and die under the authority of Mary as the maternal head of the human race. The power of God exercised to create each human soul and direct all human action is directed from the Trinitarian God, through Mary as from God the creator and preserver acting with power through Mary as the mother of all men. For just as God created the universe to cause Mary to become the mother of the universe and maternal head of all men, so too, God also acts with the mother of all men to move men to act in accordance with God's providential plan.
For when God caused Mary to become the mother of God, God then acts with Mary as mother of God, to convey the power of God, for God never acts in an inefficacious manner. So when God acted to cause Mary's divine maternity, He did so because God included Mary within the divine plan for all men. Consequently, Mary is not only the mother of Christ 2000 years ago, she is the human person as mother of God and all men, around which the divine plan of creation, redemption, sanctification and glorification is determined.
And, because God's providential plan is a plan that exercises God's prudence, and prudence is the practical act to order everything for an end, God's providence always acts to have Mary participate in the glory of God as the mother of the divine saviour and creator. All actions of all men are then within the divine providential plan to give glory to God through the glory granted to Mary, as mother of God, and mother of all men. Also, because Mary is the maternal cause of God's providential power, Mary is also the maternal cause of all miracles, and all sacramental grace. Therefore any healing and any sanctifying grace obtained by any man is through the mediation of Mary. All actions of all men are then in some manner Marian actions of men moved by divine power as through the mediation of Mary.
To deny that Mary has a causal role over the lives of all men is to conclude that God has acted to cause Mary to become the mother of God, but then to exclude Mary in the divine plan for all men. The contradictory inclusion of Mary within the divine plan for all men through Christ, and then exclusion of Mary in the divine plan for all men is not in accord with God the creator, who always creates creatures to act in accord with the office granted by God. As Mary's motherhood of God was perfect, and Christ is the divine head of the human race, then Mary is the mother of the human race.
As mother of the human race, she always acts with divine providence to have the divine power applied to move men in accord with the divine plan. Whenever a man uses his free will to make a moral act, he does so because Mary has acted with the power of God to enable that man to act. All merit of all men is then through the mediation of Mary along with the divine power, and divine grace merited by Christ. Also contrarily, Marian mediation to cause all human action does not conclude Mary being a cause of any human sin. For Mary is impeccable, just as her divine Son is impeccable and any sin caused by men is a defect in men and not in Mary willing the sin as a Mediatrix between God and men.
Conclusion - Mary is a Maternal Cause of all men's actions within God's Providential Plan of Salvation. Mary is the mediatrix of all grace and of all miracles.
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