Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.: On Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces

By Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., OnePeterFive, November 6, 2025

On Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

The Influence of Mary, Mediatrix

TAKEN FROM THE THREE AGES OF THE INTERIOR LIFE, VOL. 1, chapter 6
Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat, 1948
Original French edition © The Dominican Province, France.
English translation © Baronius Press Ltd

WHEN the bases of the interior life are considered, we cannot discuss the action of Christ, the universal Mediator, on His Mystical Body without also speaking of the influence of Mary Mediatrix. As we remarked, many persons delude themselves, maintaining that they reach union with God without having continual recourse to our Lord, Who is the way, the truth, and the life. Another error would consist in wishing to go to our Lord without going first to Mary, whom the Church calls in a special feast the Mediatrix of all graces.

Protestants have fallen into this last error. Without going as far as this deviation, there are Catholics who do not see clearly enough the necessity of having recourse to Mary that they may attain to intimacy with the Savior. Blessed Grignion de Montfort speaks even of “doctors who know the Mother of God only in a speculative, dry, sterile, and indifferent manner; who fear that devotion to the Blessed Virgin is abused, and that injury is done to our Lord by honoring too greatly His holy Mother. If they speak of devotion to Mary, it is less to recommend it than to destroy the abuses that have grown up around it.”[1] They seem to believe that Mary is a hindrance to reaching Divine union. According to Blessed Grignion, we lack humility if we neglect the mediators whom God has given us because of our frailty. Intimacy with our Lord in prayer will be greatly facilitated by a true and profound devotion to Mary. ….

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