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The
solemnity of the Virgin Mary Conceived without Sin is celebrated on
December 8th. By a singular privilege, which was already a grace coming
from the death of her Son on the Cross, Mary was conceived in the womb
of Anne, her mother, without contracting original sin. It was necessary
that the Son of God would prepare a mother worthy of himself.
Being
immaculate, Our Lady received a full measure of grace (Luke 1:28),
enabling her for the dignity of Mother of God. Yet she was not unable to
sin like her Son, who was both God and man. Mary, for her part, could
have sinned, but she always perfectly consented to the fullness of grace
with which God never ceased to fill her.
... Mary is the
Immaculate Conception, according to the dogma defined by Pius IX in
1854, and according to her own statement to Bernadette of Lourdes in
1858.
Set apart to
become the Mother of God, she was able... to exercise maternal mediation
in the line of the mediation of her Son, for all mankind. Those who are
loyal and attached to her will join her in the Glory of God, once they
have become, with her, the Bride of Christ, "splendid, without spot or
wrinkle or any such thing, except holy and without blemish" (Eph 5:27).
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