The Bible Proves that Priests are Mediators Between God and Man

David Martin | The Daily Knight

In Holy Scripture it states, “All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice,” so that “the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16)

The popes of the past two centuries have gone on to say that reading the Scriptures is not only profitable but necessary to fortify us against the errors of our time and against those who steal the Bible and try to make it their own so they can put their own twist on it to mislead others.

For instance, there are those today who say that we don’t need intercessors for our salvation, but the Bible says quite the opposite. St. Paul referred to himself and the apostles as Christ's "ambassadors" in their role to reconcile God to man. “For Christ therefore, we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us. For Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.” (1 Cor. 5: 20)

Priests Are Mediators

Hereby, the apostle calls himself an intercessor or mediator, which is what an ambassador is—an emissary or representative who represents one grouping before another. In this case, St. Paul is representing Christ before the world. He is saying that through the doctrine that many would receive through his intercession they could be reconciled to God.

Through the ages millions have been reconciled to God by hearing the intercessors that God sends them, i.e. the bishops and priests, and even lay people.

In St. Paul’s second letter to Timothy, he says, “I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men.”  (2 Timothy 2:1) Those who make intercessions for others are mediators just as the Virgin Mary and all the saints of history have been intercessors for mankind.

Many try to refute this by quoting St. Paul in this same chapter where it says:

“For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5)

In vain do they quote this passage. This verse of scripture refers specifically to Christ's redemptive act on the cross, which was needed to open the lines between Heaven and earth, since none but the Son of God Himself could have accomplished this. But we still need the intercession of teachers and preachers to bring Christ to man, since faith "cometh by hearing." (Romans 10:17) “And how shall they hear, without a preacher?" (10:14) The grace and truth of Christ is dispensed by those that are sent by Christ, namely, the preachers of the Faith, who are intercessors.

Mary’s Intercessory Role

What defies logic is how some deny Mary's intercessory role when she was used by the Almighty to bring the Messiah into the world. Her purpose in Bible history is to bring Christ to man, beginning with his Incarnation and continuing to this very day.

If it is proper to say that the apostles are mediators of Christ, how much more proper is it to say  Mary is the chief Mediatrix between Christ and Man? Without Mary the apostles wouldn’t have had a Messiah to preach. For while it was Christ who redeemed the world by His Sacrifice, it was Mary who channeled Christ into the world that we might have a Redeemer. And too, it is Mary who continues to channel his grace to us to this day. She truly is the Mediatrix of all Grace who dispenses the blessings of Her Divine Son to mankind.

What is sad is that Pope Leo through the pen of DDF prefect Cardinal Fernandez publicly denied two very important aspects of Mary’s intercessory role on November 4, 2025. The Vatican said it is ‘inappropriate’ to refer to Mary as co-redemptrix or co-redeemer arguing that this title "carries the risk of eclipsing the exclusive role of Jesus Christ" in salvation.

Is this not typically Protestant?

But too, the dicastery said that Mary, "the first redeemed, could not have been mediatrix of the grace that she herself received." Is Rome forgetting that the saints and doctors of the Church have referred to Mary as Mediatrix for centuries? Were the saints stupid and in need of the instruction of a heretic [Fernandez] who is known for his dirty sex-oriented writings that attempt to make a religion out of sex.

But too, is Leo and his hierarchy forgetting that Mary was blameless and did not need cleansing or redemption from original sin? Are they forgetting her Immaculate Conception?

By saying that Mary, “the first redeemed,” could not have been a mediatrix they also commit the error of saying that redeemed people like St. Paul and the Catholic bishops cannot be mediators. But as discussed above, they are. If the [good] bishops are mediators how much more the Mother of God?

Unfortunately, there are many priests and bishops of our time who dismiss and even deny Our Lady’s Mediatrixship, courtesy of Leo’s Vatican. They’ve been brainwashed and intimidated into pleasing the Protestants who dismiss Mary’s significance and role as Mediatrix.

Mary’s intercessory role is alluded to even in the Old Testament:

“Now all good things came to me together with her, and innumerable riches through her hands. And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom went before me, and I knew not that she was the mother of them all.” (Wisdom 7: 11,12)

Again we read:

“I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruit.” (Ecc. 24: 24-26)

The Intercession of the Saints

Holy Scripture also speaks of the intercession of the saints. In Apocalypse 8:4, it says,

"And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel."

These prayers of the saints are intercessory acts. The saints stand between God and man in our behalf.

In Apocalypse 5:8, we also read:

“And when he [the angel] had opened the book, the four living creatures, and the four and twenty ancients fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.” 

And who are the saints praying for but we poor sinners on earth?

If the angels and saints are our intercessors, how much more is the Mother of the Messiah? Are today’s Catholic bishops, cardinals, and pope so blind as to not see that Mary is the Mediatrix between Christ and man?