Wednesday, October 25, 2006



MARY IMMACULATE

HER GREATNESS

3. Mother of God the Son.
From Mary, Jesus took flesh and blood and offered them as pure and holy Host on the Cross for the redemption of mankind. How could that Host be pure and holy if its origin had been stained with sin?


Furthermore, none of us can choose our mother. We just receive the one given us by God. But it was not so with Our Lord. He chose and shaped His Mother just as He wanted. Now, Christ being able, as He was, to shape Her most beautiful, pure and holy in Her conception, could He allow Her to be stained and enslaved by sin? Christian people, already many centuries ago, used to chant:

If He could not make Her Immaculate He is not God; if He could and would not, He is not Son; let us, then, rather say that He could and would,
which is equivalent to saying that there was no power wanting in God, neither was will wanting. Consequently, the Lord Who created Adam and Eve in grace, would certainly do the same with Mary.

If He could but would not make Mary Immaculate, He would not have shown for Her a love befitting a good son towards his mother, since He would have deprived Her of a beauty that was to be Her most cherished treasure. Thus, there is no other way: He had to make Her Immaculate.
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]


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