The Fruit of the Coronation: Greater Trust in Mary’s Intercession for Us

We have arrived at the final mystery of the Rosary: the Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth.  At last, Our Lady has come to the end of her earthly pilgrimage and received the glorious crown that signifies the fulfillment of her destiny.  As she takes her place as Queen-Mother beside the throne of Christ the King, Mary foreshadows the Church in its heavenly glory: Those who are joined to Christ will reign with Him forever.  Mary reigns from above not only with her soul, but also with her resurrected body, in anticipation of our bodily resurrection on the last day. 

Could Mary of Nazareth – a humble Galilean girl – have possibly imagined the heights to which God intended to raise her?  True, she witnessed incredible miracles, yet most of Mary’s life was strikingly ordinary.  Drawing water from the village well, laundering a garment, kneading dough – these were the tasks of the Queen of Heaven as she walked the earth.  In the days of her earthly pilgrimage, Our Lady wore no crown.  Rather, she belonged to the company of Israel’s poor, and it was her poverty of spirit that attracted the delight of the Almighty.  In most of her life, she was a lowly nobody.  Later, alongside her Son in His public ministry, she was subject to suspicion, misunderstanding, and even cruel ridicule as His redemptive mission became her own.  Few recognized her as the Immaculate Conception and Mother of God – the most favoured human person to ever walk the planet.

We have yet to fathom the heights to which God intends to raise His beloved children!  As with Mary, what God has planned for our lives is so much greater than what we have planned for ourselves, and in His great Mercy, God has given us Mary to mediate the realization of those plans in her unique position as Queen of Heaven and Earth.  As Queen, her mission is to bring us to our own royal crowning through the power of her maternal intercession and advocacy in our lives.  Through her powerful presence beside the Divinity, we have access to God’s Heart.  Thus, the fruit of the Fifth Glorious Mystery is greater trust in Mary’s intercession for us.

Mary’s Coronation reminds us that fidelity to Jesus in the humble paths of our earthly pilgrimage is the way to our heavenly crowning.  Mary knows the way to Heaven – the way of faith.  Mother of God though she was, Mary walked by faith, not full vision.  Faith involves a kind of darkness: Choosing to hold fast to what lies hidden beneath a veil.  Let us return to the First Joyful Mystery, the Annunciation, where we began our journey with Mary through the mysteries of the Rosary.  After asking her consent to be Mother of the Saviour, the angel Gabriel told Mary, “For with God nothing will be impossible” (Lk 1:37).  Mary kept these words alive in her heart throughout her pilgrimage of faith.  Mary was the Woman who said “I believe in God” at all times – even the most troubling.  She believed when Joseph was stupefied at the news of her pregnancy.  She relied on God when she had to flee to Egypt with a new baby, leaving home and family far behind.  She trusted when the Nazoreans drove Jesus out of town, intending to throw him to his death.  She clung to faith when death claimed her Son, whose pierced and lacerated body lay limp in her arms on Calvary.

As our spiritual mother, Mary wants to walk with us in all of our needs, perplexities, and sufferings.  Now seated beside her Son on His glorious throne, she says to us as we traverse the darkness of faith, “with God nothing will be impossible”! 

How crowned is Mary in your life?  Have you entrusted yourself wholly to her maternal intercession, both in your spiritual and material necessities?  If you lack something, make it known to the Queen.  If your faith is weak, ask Mary to strengthen it.  If your family is falling apart, ask Mary to come to your rescue.  If you are afraid of the future, ask Mary to obtain the Lord’s protection over it. 

Mary may be enthroned above the cherubim and seraphim, but that doesn’t mean she has been enthroned in the hearts of all her children.  If she was, the Kingdom of God would already be established on the earth…

… But in the hearts of those who enthrone her, the Kingdom of God has come.  For wherever Mary is,  there is Jesus her Son. 

May your 2026 be spent under the Queenship of Mary!