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Book Recommendation of the Day
Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J., author of the timeless classic Abandonment to Divine Providence (18th century).
This book beautifully captures the Catholic meaning of “stopping the force” not by drifting with life, but by fully trusting God’s will in every moment. It teaches that every duty, trial, and joy is a direct expression of God’s providence meant for the soul’s sanctification.
Here are a few lines that echo your episode’s message:
“The will of God is the life of the soul. The more the soul submits, the more alive it becomes.”
“We should accept the crosses that God sends us as so many precious gifts. They are the surest signs of His love.”
“Perfection is nothing but the faithful cooperation of the soul with the will of God in whatever happens.”
De Caussade’s work has inspired saints such as St. Thérèse of Lisieux and has been called “the layperson’s guide to sanctity in ordinary life.”

Folks practicing the Catholic faith in these modern times is very difficult and that’s when you know its real. Never give up and just keep pushing ahead. Learn your faith and live your faith day by day.
So first we hear that Rome is talking about condemning Marian Apparitions if they speak of condemnation of the Church and its actions and now today we hear they are going one again after the blessed mother by refusing the title mediatix of all graces and co-redemptorist.
Folks this once again shows the modern prelates of the church had improper formation. The simply do not know the faith and just knee jerk everything on modern sensabilities. If you thought the recking ball of V2 is over think again. They fired up the next round of distruction.
What you have been experiencing since Vatican II is that not only have they ignored all previous council as I wrote about but they have ignored all previous Popes and Saints prior to V2. They simply are creating a new church a sort of Frankenstein-Church as I spoke about in yesterdays episode. They simply refuse any and all tradition. But let me explain why the church referred to mary as the mediatrix of all graces and the co-redemptorist since these uneducated and simply ignorant prelates either have no clue or are intentionally going after the blessed mother and I will tell you anyone that attacks are blessed mother attacks the church.
The Church’s titles for the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces and Co-Redemptrix express profound theological truths about her unique participation in Christ’s redemptive work truths rooted deeply in Scripture, the Fathers, and centuries of Tradition. Let’s break down both titles carefully from a traditional Catholic perspective:
1. Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces
The word Mediatrix means “female mediator.”
In Catholic theology, Jesus Christ alone is the one and perfect Mediator between God and man as St. Paul says, “There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).
However, the Church teaches that others can share in Christ’s one mediation in a subordinate and participatory way never as rivals or equals, but as instruments through whom His grace flows.
Mary is called Mediatrix of All Graces because:
• She cooperated uniquely in the Incarnation, the moment when divine grace itself entered the world. Through her fiat“Be it done unto me according to thy word” (Luke 1:38) she gave flesh to the Redeemer, making her the channel through which the Author of all grace came into humanity.
• She intercedes continually for her children, presenting our prayers to her Son. As at Cana, she still says, “They have no wine,” and Christ still responds to her maternal intercession.
• All graces come through Christ, but Christ came through Mary. The same divine order by which God chose to send His Son through her remains the order by which He chooses to distribute His graces through her maternal hands.
Popes have affirmed this truth:
• Leo XIII wrote that “nothing at all of that immense treasury of every grace… comes to us except through Mary.”
• St. Pius X called her “the dispenser of all the gifts which Jesus acquired for us by His death.”
• Benedict XV reaffirmed that “she is the Mediatrix of all graces to men.”
Thus, Mary’s mediation does not compete with Christ’s but rather depends entirely on it as the moon reflects the sun. All her power of intercession comes from her perfect union with the Redeemer.
2. Mary as Co-Redemptrix
The title Co-Redemptrix means “with the Redeemer,” not “equal Redeemer.”
The prefix co- in Latin (cum) means “with,” not “alongside as an equal partner.”
Mary is called Co-Redemptrix because she uniquely cooperated in the work of human redemption:
1. At the Annunciation, she freely consented to the Incarnation, providing the Redeemer with His human nature the very instrument of our salvation. Without her fiat, there would be no Cross.
2. At Calvary, she united her sufferings to Christ’s. Standing beneath the Cross, she offered her maternal heart in complete solidarity with His redemptive sacrifice.
As Pope Pius X said, “She offered Him on Golgotha to the Eternal Father for all the children of Adam.”
3. Her suffering was interior but real, a “martyrdom of love,” as St. Bernard called it — the sword that pierced her soul (Luke 2:35). She consented to the immolation of her Son for our salvation, offering herself with Him as a secondary, subordinate participant in the redemption.
Popes have echoed this:
• Pope St. Pius X: “From her union with Christ in His sufferings she merited to become most worthily the reparatrix of the lost world.”
• Benedict XV: “She suffered and almost died with her suffering Son… and thus she may rightly be said to have redeemed the human race together with Christ.”
Again, her cooperation was entirely dependent on Christ’s infinite merits she added nothing to the value of the Cross but joined herself perfectly to it as the New Eve beside the New Adam.
3. Scriptural and Typological Foundations
• Genesis 3:15: God foretold enmity between the Woman and the serpent, between her seed and his. Mary is the New Eve, whose obedience and cooperation undo Eve’s disobedience.
• John 19:26–27: At the Cross, Jesus entrusts the disciple — representing all humanity — to Mary’s maternal care: “Behold your mother.” This reveals her ongoing maternal mediation in the order of grace.
• Revelation 12: The “woman clothed with the sun” who brings forth the Savior and wars against the dragon represents Mary as the spiritual mother of the faithful, mediating God’s victory to His Church.
4. Theological Balance
The Church carefully guards against misunderstanding these titles:
• Christ alone is Redeemer and Mediator by nature and merit.
• Mary participates by grace and association.
• Her mediation and co-redemption are subordinate, dependent, and entirely derived from Christ’s own saving work.
As St. Louis de Montfort summarized:
“God has decided to begin and accomplish His greatest works through the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
Thus, every grace that reaches us passes through her hands because God willed that His Son come through her, and that through her His blessings return to us.
When You Stop Forcing Life: Abandonment to Divine Providence
The False Calm of Modern Surrender
Welcome, dear listeners, to another episode dedicated to uncovering the truth behind modern philosophies that promise peace but lead us away from Christ.
Today we’ll examine a message spreading rapidly through social media videos inspired by philophers’ statement, “When you stop forcing life, everything changes.”
At first glance, such words sound soothing. Who doesn’t want relief from anxiety, conflict, and struggle? Yet the peace offered here is not the peace of Christ it is the counterfeit calm of detachment from truth. Philophers, influenced by Zen Buddhism and Taoism, urged people to dissolve their striving, to “go with the flow,” and to merge with the universe’s rhythm.
But for Catholics, life is not an impersonal stream. It is a divinely ordered pilgrimage a path toward Heaven directed by a personal, loving Father.
To “stop forcing life” without reference to God risks a subtle but deadly inversion: instead of conforming our will to God, we conform God to our will by making Him irrelevant.
Our peace does not come from surrendering to nothingness, but from surrendering to Someone.
That Someone is Jesus Christ, who said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)
Segment 1: The False Peace of Modern Philosophy
Modern philosphers teach that freedom and happiness arise when we cease trying to control life when we “let go.” But this teaching, though poetic, is spiritually hollow because it removes God from the equation.
To “let go” of the Cross, of moral discipline, of striving for virtue, is not freedom it is slavery to self.
philosophy stems from an Eastern worldview that sees suffering as illusion, self as illusion, and salvation as the dissolution of individuality.
Catholicism, by contrast, sees the self as redeemed, not erased.
St. Athanasius wrote, “God became man that man might become divine.”
Our destiny is not absorption into the universe but communion with the living God through sanctifying grace.
The modern world wants peace without penance, joy without judgment, and spirituality without submission. It wants the comfort of religion without the authority of Revelation.
But this is what Pope Pius X condemned as Modernism the synthesis of all heresies because it replaces divine truth with inner feeling and eternal law with momentary experience.
To “stop forcing life” philophers is to stop resisting sin and that is not enlightenment, but surrender to disorder.
Segment 2: The Catholic Way of Surrender Abandonment to Divine Providence
For Catholics, true surrender is not passive resignation but active trust. It is the soul’s joyful consent to the will of God, even when that will leads through the Cross.
Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade, in Abandonment to Divine Providence, teaches that every moment —even the most painful — is a sacrament of God’s will. He writes:
“The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams, but you will only enjoy them to the extent of your faith and love.”
To stop “forcing life” in the Catholic sense means to cease fighting against the Divine Will, not to stop striving for holiness. It means doing our duty faithfully, lovingly, persistently and leaving the results to God.
St. Francis de Sales said, “Do not look forward in fear to the changes of life; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God will sustain you.”
He did not tell us to stop working or caring, but to perform each act with calm confidence in Providence.
When we accept that God governs all things even the trials that perplex us we no longer “force” life. We live within the rhythm of grace, which is infinitely wiser than the rhythm of emotion or instinct.

Segment 3: The Modern Error of Self-Surrender Without God
Contemporary spirituality often uses language similar to Christian surrender words like “accept,” “trust,” “release,” “flow.” But these terms are emptied of meaning when detached from divine authority.
The soul cannot safely surrender to “the universe,” for the universe has no will, no love, no mercy.
To place our trust in impersonal energy is idolatry under a modern disguise.
The saints understood this difference well.
St. Teresa of Ávila did not surrender to “the flow of life.” She surrendered to the Sacred Humanity of Christ.
St. Ignatius of Loyola did not “stop forcing life.” He directed every moment toward Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam the greater glory of God.
Our Lady did not say, “Whatever happens, happens.” She said, “Be it done unto me according to thy word.” (Luke 1:38)
That is perfect surrender obedience born of love.
And love requires truth. There can be no authentic surrender without fidelity to the moral law and the teachings of Holy Mother Church.
To “let go” without God is despair;
to “let go” into God’s hands is sanctity.
Segment 4: Finding Peace in God’s Order
True peace pax Christi comes not from escaping life’s demands but from embracing them as the means of our sanctification.
The saints found serenity not in comfort but in conformity to the Cross.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux once said, “Everything is grace.”
She did not mean everything feels good; she meant everything is permitted by God for our salvation.
When a Catholic stops forcing life, he does not stop carrying his cross. Rather, he stops complaining about its weight and begins walking beside Christ, who carries it with him.
This is the peace of the saints the peace that comes from seeing every trial as the sculptor’s chisel shaping the soul into the image of Christ.
In a world obsessed with control controlling image, success, emotion, and outcome the Catholic is called to a deeper detachment: to surrender the illusion of control to the sovereignty of God.
To “stop forcing life,” in its truest sense, is to say with St. Paul, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” (Galatians 2:20)
Epistle – Hebrews 10:32–38 (Douay-Rheims)
"But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions.
And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.
For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you had a better and lasting substance.
Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.
For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.
For yet a little, and a very little while, and He that is to come will come, and will not delay.
But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul."
Reflection on the Epistle
This powerful exhortation from St. Paul calls us to remember to recall those early days of our conversion when our hearts burned with faith and zeal. The Apostle warns that the Christian life is not a passing enthusiasm, but a lifelong battle.
The early Christians faced ridicule, persecution, even confiscation of their property and yet they rejoiced because their true treasure was in Heaven. St. Paul reminds them, and us, that patience and endurance are the keys to victory.
How easily today we lose heart when the world mocks our fidelity to Christ, when our moral convictions are branded as “intolerant” or “outdated.” But the just man, says Scripture, “lives by faith.” Faith is not mere belief it is trust in God’s promise even when all visible hope seems lost.
When we suffer injustice, when we are stripped of worldly comforts or human respect for the sake of truth, we imitate Christ Crucified. Our endurance then becomes our greatest testimony.
Gospel – Matthew 16:24–27
"Then Jesus said to His disciples: If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for My sake, shall find it.
For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels: and then will He render to every man according to his works."
Reflection on the Gospel
In today’s Gospel, Our Lord gives us the path to eternal glory but it is a narrow and rugged road. “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross.”
These words cut against the grain of our fallen nature. The world says: “Seek comfort, pleasure, and recognition.” But Christ says: “Embrace suffering, humility, and sacrifice.”
To deny oneself is not merely to reject sin it is to surrender our will entirely to God’s. It means accepting even the crosses we did not choose, with love and trust that they purify the soul.
“He that shall lose his life for My sake shall find it.”
This paradox is the heart of Christian life: only by dying to self do we find true life in Christ.
How tragic it is that so many today chase after the fleeting treasures of this world success, pleasure, and self-fulfillment while neglecting the eternal destiny of their souls. Christ’s haunting question echoes across the centuries: “What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?”
At the hour of judgment, only our works done in charity, in conformity to God’s will, will endure. Every comfort we clung to, every sin we refused to abandon, will weigh upon us unless we have repented and borne our cross faithfully.
Saint of the Day – St. Charles Borromeo
Today the Church honors Saint Charles Borromeo, Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, one of the greatest saints of the Counter-Reformation.
Born into nobility, St. Charles renounced luxury and tirelessly reformed the clergy and laity alike. He established seminaries, corrected abuses, and called the faithful back to reverence and discipline in worship.
When the plague struck Milan, he did not flee; he stayed to comfort the dying, administer the sacraments, and feed the poor carrying the Blessed Sacrament through the streets barefoot, offering his own life in reparation for the sins of his people.
He embodied today’s Gospel perfectly: denying himself, taking up his cross, and following Christ. His perseverance amid opposition and trial mirrors the call of St. Paul in our Epistle to endure with faith and patience, knowing that “He that is to come will come and will not delay.”
May St. Charles Borromeo intercede for our bishops and priests today, that they may possess his zeal, his humility, and his unwavering fidelity to Catholic truth.
Conclusion and Prayer
Let us close with prayer.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
O God, who by the life and labors of Saint Charles Borromeo did renew the spirit of Thy Church, grant, we beseech Thee, that through his intercession we may courageously bear the cross of Christ and persevere with patience in every trial.
Strengthen our faith, O Lord, when the world grows cold and indifferent. May we, like St. Charles, burn with zeal for Thy glory and the salvation of souls.
Through the merits of Thy Passion, grant us the grace to deny ourselves daily and follow Thee faithfully unto eternal life.
We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.