The painting manifests the objective and subjective redemptions. The objective redemption by Jesus' death made full reparation for the sins of the world and merited for us grace and mercy which are distributed to us in the subjective redemption by the mediation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

     Our Lady appears as the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary symbolizing her role as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all Grace. She suffers in union with Jesus as our Co-Redemptrix and offers us the grace and mercy merited by Him through her heart as Mediatrix and begs us for our reparation and consecration in the subjective redemption.

     This vision is re-presented at every Mass when Jesus as Mediator consecrates Himself to His Father and truly gives us His Real Body and Blood under the appearances of bread and wine. Our Lady stands beneath him as Mediatrix and mediates His grace and mercy to us.

     As we gaze at and mediate upon the painting we see that Jesus Christ is Mediator between the divine nature of the Holy Trinity and our human nature. The divine nature of the Holy Trinity is symbolized by the gold triangle which over-laps the Cross. Jesus hangs from them both symbolizing His sharing of the divine and human natures.

     From the Cross proceeds a red triangle. This symbolizes the blood of Christ and the grace and mercy that He merited. Jesus and Mary are within this grace and mercy. Our Lady is a gift of God's mercy. She stands at the foot of the cross as Mediatrix of All Grace. The faces of Jesus and Mary are blank so that we may substitute ours in their places in the hope of becoming like them.

     The Sacred Heart of Jesus shows a white dove and the cross-shaped wound caused by the soldier's spear. The Heart itself is in the form of a dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit which descends upon Our Lady's head (Lk 1:35).

     Her Immaculate Heart likewise shows a white dove and is pierced by a sword of sorrow (Lk 2:35) which proceeds from her heart through the Word of God which she holds in her hands. This Word is her Son the Word made flesh, is living, effective and sharper than any two-edged sword (Heb 4:12). The sword sets the earth on fire as Jesus came to do (Lk 12:49).

     The Cross becomes a part of Our Lady's clothing in the habit of the Brown Scapular because she shared her Son's Cross as our Co-Redemptrix. Her Brown Scapular proceeds from her and envelops the whole world as does the grace and mercy of God which she mediates to us. This is symbolized by the red-colored inside of the Scapular. The brown-colored side is the sign of our consecration to her. She promised St. Simon Stock that "whosoever dies clothed in this shall never suffer eternal fire."

     She calls us to consecrate ourselves to her as Mediatrix of all Grace so that Jesus may reign as King in every heart. Let us respond to her call now!