Immaculate Conception of Mary

See also: Virgin Mary, Assumption and Dormition of the Virgin Mary, The "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria), Our Father.

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Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes

The Virgin Mary bears multiple titles of glory. Their study forms mariology. This article summarizes only one of these many aspects: the conception of Mary free from original sin.

The term "immaculate" applies to her birth, but also to her virginal flesh as well as to her Heart, often associated with the Sacred Heart of her son.

In this article, we focus on the first aspect, that of her birth intimately linked to her Maternity.

Eve mother of the living, Mary mother of the Living

In God’s plan, Maternity is the source of humanity: Eve mother of all the living. 

Likewise, the regeneration of Humanity through the abolition of sin is based on the Maternity perfect of Mary.

The whole history of Salvation sums up in these two titles:

- Eve, mother of the living,

- Mary, mother of the Living.

The Christ, God made man, was alien to sin by his divine nature and by his Mother, free from all traces of sin.

Pius IX even said, in the introduction of his encyclical proclaiming the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, that God:

Filled her, more than all the angelic spirits, more than all the saints, with the abundance of all the heavenly Graces, and enriched her with a marvelous profusion, so that she might always be without any stain, entirely free from the slavery of sin, all beautiful, all perfect, and in such fullness of innocence and holiness that one cannot conceive a greater, below God, and that no other thought than that of God himself can measure her greatness.

Already, in the 4th century, Saint Ambrose of Milan (340-397) proclaimed Mary free from all stain of sin: “free, by Grace, from any stain of sin”.

Thus, in Christ and in Mary, his source, not only is all sin abolished but all traces of sin. This seems indicated in the intent behind the definition given by Pius IX: Mary is exempt not only from the malice of sin, but from all traces of inclinations leading to sin.

This remarkable expression is intentional by the Pope who brought the dogma’s wording to this point, this limit. Just as the pope expressed, by a crucial word, that Mary was not purified but exempt from all sin, he seems also to have wanted to specify that she was preserved not only from all evil intentions or inclinations to sin, but also from the original movement that leads to sin, hence in theological terms of concupiscence, that is the imbalance of wounded nature that leads her to sin.

In the etymological sense, says the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "concupiscence" can denote any vehement form of human desire. Christian theology gave it the particular meaning of the movement of the sensitive appetite which opposes the work of human reason human. The Apostle Saint Paul identifies it as the revolt that the "flesh" wages against "The Spirit" . It comes from the disobedience of the first sin. It disorders the moral faculties of man and, without being a fault itself, inclines him to commit sins. Saint John distinguishes three kinds of covetousness or concupiscence: the covetousness of the flesh, the covetousness of the eyes and the Pride of life.

She is therefore in absolute purity. She is exempt from all tendencies or weaknesses leading to sin. Alexander VII (1655-1667), in the 17th century, defined the Immaculate Conception of Mary in terms later echoed in Pius IX’s encyclical:

Old is the piety of Christ’s faithful toward the Blessed Virgin Mary his mother, who think that her Soul, at the first instant of its creation and infusion into the body, was, by a special Grace and Favour of God, in consideration of the merits of Jesus Christ her son, Redeemer of the human race, fully preserved intact from the stain of original sin, and who, in this spirit, solemnly honor and celebrate the feast of her conception (December 8).

He concluded by defending this devotion against its detractors.

The expression used by Pope Pius IX ("exempt") indicates that he wishes to remove from Mary, not only original sin, which is the primary subject of the dogma’s definition, but also, secondarily, all tendencies to sin, all imbalance known by the barbaric term "concupiscence" which means this disorientation and fragility of bearings towards good.

This issue appears again in another concept and perspective used in subtle theological discussions on the matter: Was Mary exempt from all sin, but also from all tendencies to sin?

Some theologians have wanted to push the discussion further by asking whether Mary was exempt from all influences of sin not only near but far away, in a radical sense.

The very intention of the dogma seems confirmed by the violent repulsion of the Demon before the Virgin foreign to sin, exempt from all traces or tendencies to sin.

Eve, mother of the living is not a mere parallel with Mary mother of the Living.

Eve’s Maternity has no term, except a final cataclysm, since it is through the reproduction of man and Woman that the human race continues indefinitely. But there is a much greater difference between the original Maternity from which the perpetuation of the human family flows and Mary, mother of the Living.

If Maternity, at the starting point of the human race, perpetuates humanity by the indefinite chain of generations, Mary’s maternity, mother of the Living, on the contrary programs a regenerative end. For Mary, after the regeneration of Christ, there will be no other birth nor regeneration, for this regeneration is perfect.

Jesus, son of Mary, will not marry any Woman. He will be the repairful end of the sin that had created the rupture between Man and God: original sin.

Christ assumed the Incarnation to repair, in his divine person, original sin along with all sins that followed according to a proportional amplification to the expansion of Humanity.

Humanity is engaged in a cycle of sin from which no one escapes except Christ, who is God, and the Virgin Mary, exempt from all inclination to Temptations.

The Virgin Mary cooperated with his Passion by her total compassion: present at the foot of the Cross, she shared the horrible sufferings of her son, incarnate to suffer freely, in his human flesh, thus in his person, the ultimate consequence of sin.

It is now the hour of Mary

This immaculate conception in view of the divine Maternity of the Redeemer illuminates history.

The dictations of Jesus entrusted to Maria Valtorta actualize the prophecy of Saint LYess-Marie Grignion de Montfort, in perfect convergence with other contemporary mystics.

This prophecy linked the merits of the divine Maternity, and thus of the immaculate conception conditioning it, with the last times. In his Treatise on True Devotion to the Holy Virgin, he established this parallel:

It is through Mary that the salvation of the world began, and it is through Mary that it must be consummated […] Mary will consequently produce the greatest things that will be in the “last times”. The formation and education of the great saints who will be at the end of the world will be reserved to her.

Echoing, Maximilian Kolbe, apostle of the Immaculate Conception, announces in his Spiritual Writings:

The Modern Times are dominated by Satan and will be even more so in the Future. The battle Against Hell cannot be waged by men, even the most intelligent. Only the Immaculate has received from God the promise of victory over the Demon.

Maria Valtorta clearly affirms the manifestation of this Virgin in our time: "It is now the hour of Mary," dictates the Holy Spirit to her (Lessons on the epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans)

In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"

• "The Spotless one was never deprived of the memory of God".  
• Birth of the Virgin Mary 
• "Her Soul appears beautiful and intact as when God conceived her".
• You can well understand how God could not reside where Satan had placed his indelible sign. Power therefore worked to make her future tabernacle immaculate. And through two just ones, of advanced age and Against the usual rules of procreation, was conceived She in whom there is no stain. [...] With a cry of joy, he the Announcer who already knew the way to earth, because he had descended to speak to the Prophets, gathered from the Divine Fire the immaculate spark which was the Soul of the Eternal Child, and enclosing it in a circle of angelic flames, those of his spiritual love, he carried it to earth into a house, into a womb.
• The "that the Soul of Mary be made without fault" is a miracle of the Creator. It is to Him therefore that praise goes. But the "that it be made of me according to your word" is a miracle of my Mother.
• Yes, O Mother, God, the Immense, the Sublime, the Virgin, the Uncreated, was heavy with you and carried you as his very gentle burden, rejoicing to feel you stir in Him, giving you the smiles with which He made Creation! You whom He painfully bore to give you to the World, very sweet Soul, born of Him who is Virgin to be the "Virgin", Perfection of Creation, Light of Paradise, Counsel of God, such that by looking at you He could forgive the Fault, because you alone and through you alone know how to love as all Humanity gathered does not know how to love.
• (John, son of Zebedee) Now you have never had any stain of any sin on your Soul. Even the great sin common to all, inheritance from Adam for all humans did not strike you, because God preserved you from it by a singular, unique privilege, since you were destined from all eternity to become the Ark of the Word.

In other works by Maria Valtorta

The Notebooks of 1943

• June 23: It is generally believed that my Mother suffered only morally. This is false. The Mother of mortals knew all kinds of suffering. Not because she deserved it, she was immaculate and she did not bear in her the painful heritage of Adam, but because, being co-redemptrix and Mother of all the human race, she had to consummate the sacrifice to the bottom and in all its forms. That is why she endured, as a Woman, the inevitable sufferings of the Woman who conceives a child: she suffered the fatigues of the flesh weighed down by my weight, she suffered in giving me birth, …
• June 27: While Mary, you can all look at her. Not because she is like you. Oh! No! Her purity is so high that I, her Son, treat her with reverence. Her perfection is such that the whole Heaven bows before her throne on which descend the eternal smile and the eternal splendor of Our Trinity. But this splendor, which permeates and divinizes her more than any other creature, is filtered by the dazzling whiteness of the veils of her immaculate flesh, so that she shines like a star, gathering all the light of God and diffusing it as a gentle luminosity over all beings.
• July 4: The Eucharist is my Blood and my Body. But have you ever thought that this Blood and this Body were formed with the blood and milk of Mary? She, the very Pure one who housed Heaven in her womb, clothing in her immaculate white flesh the Word of the Father after the divine Weddings with the Holy Spirit, did not limit herself to beget the Savior. She nourished him with her milk. It follows that you, humans who feed on me, suck the milk of Mary which became blood in me. 
• July 6: When time will cease to exist, then Mary will cease to suffer, for the number of the Blessed will be complete. She will have begotten, with unspeakable pains, the body that does not die, whose First-born is the head. If you consider this, you will understand without doubt that Mary’s pain was the supreme pain. You will understand that, great in her immaculate Conception, great in her glorious Assumption, Mary was very great in the cycle of my passion.
• September 1: Holiness does not abolish pain. Mary in her immaculate holiness suffered cruelly at the death of her parents whom she could not console with her kisses. Do you see how much you resemble her?
• September 5: I said: "Mary found in this the principal strength to render herself untouchable". Do not misunderstand. Mary, the very humble, did not dare for a moment to think she was the perfect creature. She ignored her destiny and her immaculate nature. She knew the mystery from Gabriel’s words and in the nuptial embrace with the Eternal Spirit. But, during her youth, a time full of traps, she found strength, I repeat, in union with God. She wanted to find it at all costs because she would have preferred to die a hundred times rather than to leave for even a moment the halo of God.
• September 7: The Heart of my Mother knew the bite of the swords of pain from the moment the Light, leaving the center of the Unique and Trin Fire, penetrated her, initiating the Incarnation of God and the Redemption of humanity; and this biting grew, hour by hour, during the holy gestation in which divine blood was formed from a source of human blood, the Heart of the Son beat to the rhythm of the Heart of the Mother, the eternal flesh was formed with the immaculate flesh of the virgin.
• September 12: It was granted to my holy and blessed Mother to be bearer of the Word, not so much because of her immaculate nature but because of her super-perfect humility. All acts of human humility do not rise to the treasure of humility of the Very Humble who always remained such, even, you understand, when she learned that she was destined to be the highest of all creatures. Mary consoled the Three Divine Persons, wounded by the Pride of Lucifer and the first Couple, by her humility, surpassed only by that of the Word.
• September 15: It is a very widespread opinion among Christians, and Catholic Christians, that my Mother never suffered like mortals usually suffer. They believe that pain came to her, but that, given her immaculate nature, she could bear it easily because Grace lessened it. In short, they believe she had the shock of pain, but it could not penetrate her, because her immaculate nature and Grace, like an impenetrable armor, protected her. But this is a serious error.
• Catechesis of September 18, 1943: Mary who therefore came after me in her capacity to love, adhered to the will of God until the sacrifice of her vocation, which was to devote herself solely to the contemplation of God, and of her Heart which God asked her to crush. The divine Maternity of Mary is the living proof of her adherence to God’s will. I, the Son who did not take from the Mother her immaculate whiteness of inviolate lily, am the testimony of Mary’s assent to God’s will. She defied the opinion of the world, the judgment of her spouse, as well as embracing her scaffold of Mother of the Redeemer, without hesitation.
• October 15: It is the spirit of Mary, which surfaces from the veils of her immaculate flesh, that you cannot describe, O children of Mary and my brothers and sisters. Sanctify yourselves to see Mary. Even assuming that in Paradise you only have her to see, you would already be Blessed. For Paradise means a place where one enjoys the sight of God, and he who sees Mary already sees God. She is the spotless mirror of Divinity.
• November 25: When you celebrate the day of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, sweet fruit of our love and bearer of the Fruit of infinite love that I am, consecrated to your salvation, keep in mind, not only Mary, conceived once, but her origin, thrice holy because our three loves conspired to create her; and her special dignity as initiator of the eternal forgiveness to mankind.
• November 26: There is not a month of the year which does not have, like a precious stone in the setting of its days, a feast of Mary. But December is the Marian month par excellence because it contemples the two highest glories of Mary: the Immaculate Conception and the divine and virginal Maternity. I want to open you glimpses of reflection on this Maternity.
• December 8: To the supreme gift of the spotless Conception had to correspond from me that of being the Mother of the Redeemer, that is to say Woman of Pain. And the torment of Golgotha is the crown placed on the glory of my immaculate Conception.
• December 18: The eternal Paraclete had already been my Spouse for thirty-four years and his Fire had so possessed and penetrated me that it had made of my immaculate whiteness a Mother's body. Even after the divine Weddings, he had left me filled with himself, and he could not add perfection to perfection since God cannot increase himself, being very perfect and unsurpassable in his measure, and having given himself to me without limits, in order to make of my woman’s flesh something so holy that it could serve as a dwelling for the Divine who would descend and incarnate in me.
• December 29: As soon as I began with the invocations of Fatima: "Jesus, it is for your love, for the conversion of sinners, for the holy Father and to repair the insults made to the immaculate Heart of Mary. Jesus, forgive us our faults, preserve us from the Fire of hell, bring all Souls to Heaven and especially those most in need of your mercy", I saw the two look at each other, shining with mutual love. Shining is the right word and hardly expresses the splendor of the two Faces.

The Notebooks of 1944

• January 18: It is for my glory and my joy that the Father created everything, and, like a divine magnet, I attract to myself all created things that recognize me as that for which they live. First in life, I am also the first to rise from death, at the dawn of the third day, when the corruption of my flesh had not yet begun, since it would not have been fitting for my nature to know decay. My flesh was divine by my Father and immaculate by my Mother.
• February 4: Vision of the apparition of Lourdes: I am the Immaculate Conception.
• March 12 to 15: Tell this to those who deny that Mary could suffer in her Soul, in her spirit and in her flesh at the Hours of the Passion's expiation […] how could I not have associated her to those sufferings and made her participate in them, so that the value of the suffering of the Son of God would be increased by the value of that of she who is full of Grace, my Mother, Mary the Holy, Mary the Charity, she who is only inferior to God, she who loved me perfectly as Mother, since, being immaculate, she possessed perfect feeling, and as believer since, in her holiness, she loved me as no one else?
• August 3: I took refuge on her breast which seems to be that of a slender young girl, and I stayed there caressing her hands, those hands so beautiful and delicate, delicate and scented like flowers, with her Immaculate scent. This is nothing human fragrance. It must be the scent of heaven.
• August 19: Crying is not a sin. It is the tribute paid to our condition. I say well “our”, because your God was man and cried, just as Mary, who was free from all misery by her immaculate conception, cried: as co-redemptrix, she had to live the Suffering, which she nevertheless should not have known. Man and Woman cried. You can well cry too, who are certainly a Soul closely united to God, but not divine nor immaculate.

The Notebooks from 1945 to 1950

• June 2, 1946: The measure of the infinite goodness of God, of his power, of his forgiveness really begins with the formation of the Immaculate in Anne’s womb. It is in the first beat of the embryonic Heart of Mary, daughter of Joachim and Anne, that the Good News finds its first thrill. As for you, servants of Mary, you should more than anyone understand and firmly To Believe that the knowledge of Mary prepares for the knowledge of Christ.
• April 18, 1947: It would have been a round trip of Love to man, like a divine wave from God's ocean to the shore that invokes Him and stretches toward Him to be bathed and covered in a continual Kiss, a new virginization ever higher of the Soul already virgin; it would have become more and more virgin, of a whiteness that is no longer color but Fire, the same incandescent and virginal whiteness as Mary Immaculate, this Mirror of God that shines in her and is perfectly reflected outside. This is what your communion would have been if you had remained pure as the Eternal created you.
• May 8, 1947: I understood why Our Lady of Fatima attracts me so much, more than that of Lourdes which, nevertheless, I love very much: because she is more ours, more Mother. That of Lourdes looks at the sky... one would think she wishes to return there, to be lost in God: she is the Immaculate Conception, the Woman of heaven. That of Fatima looks at us, she looks at the poor earth where she was Woman like any other creature and whose sorrows and needs she knows, this poor earth that needs her so much, and she is all pity for us: she is our Mother.
• May 16, 1947: It is from this Heart (that of Mary) that come the drops that formed the Heart of the incarnate Word. From this whiteness had to come the blood necessary for the formation of the human embryo of the Son of God, a very pure blood from a very pure source. This purity springs from an immaculate source to surround with purity the Soul created for the Word conceived by Love with Purity.
• December 28, 1947: Mary filled this month of December with herself by always being present, alone from the 8th onward, all beautiful, Lily of Paradise, in her form of Immaculate, Indescribable Light which is flesh and has immaterial purity... no, not immaterial, because she has a true body... I would say that she has the ideal, transfigured purity of glorified bodies; today, on the day of the Holy Innocents, she descends from her light niche (the light emanating from her Blessed body) and becomes Mary of Nazareth.
• March 1949: Have I therefore lacked charity towards my Mother by practicing this heroic justice that consisted in doing all the will of my Father? No, indeed not. On the contrary, by acting thus I made the Immaculate the Co-redemptrix. I placed the second glorious crown on her head which she would not have had without that. She did not refuse it either, even if it was a crown of disproportionate suffering.
• June 3, 1949: I offer myself and I offer (it is Mary speaking). I implore the Father, and the mercy of the Father. I comfort the faithful by my Graces. I collect their prayers and reparations. I offer them to console the Love of my Heart. And to give them increased power, I offer myself with you, I who am Mother victim of humanity and for it. Maria, greet me like this: "Hail, Mary, Victim Mother for the sins of men, pray for us." Here is my new title: Immaculate Mary, victim pierced by the sins of the world."
• Apocalypse, chapter 1: She: She is firstborn daughter by election of the Father who possessed her, his holy Ark, since his Thought conceived her and established that it would be through her that Grace would come to restore Grace among men, and also since, after having created her full of Grace, he ceased to rest in her, before, during and after her Maternity. She was truly full of Grace since immaculate, always full of Grace, made fruitful by Grace; it is in her and through her that the incarnate and infinite Grace took flesh and human blood, and was formed in her virginal womb, by her blood, by her work exclusively and by the operation of the Holy Spirit.
• Apocalypse, chapter 4: For this work of infinite love began with the immaculate conception of Mary, with the fullness of Grace granted her, with the continual communion of Mary with her Lord who, after having created her, as Father, with a unique perfection compared to all bodies born of a man and a Woman, as his beloved daughter, then filled her with His light: the Word. He had revealed Himself to her through divine and intimate lessons that allowed her to become the seat of Wisdom from her earliest years, while the Holy Spirit, in his eternal love for the pure, poured into her the Fires of his perfect charity and, making of her an altar and an ark holier and more beloved than those of the Temple, found his rest in her and radiated there with all the splendor of his glory.

The Book of Azarias

• Pentecost Sunday: Look! Meditate! He who presided over all the actions of the Creator, and therefore also over the thought to create the Immaculate, the future Mother of the Redeemer, here he is now descending to wed her, and he finds her more beautiful than paradise itself because beautiful of justice by her own will, as well as by the will of the Lord of paradise!
• Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, 13th Sunday after Pentecost: Mary is the true Eve, the root and tree of the living. The Father created her, Love fertilized her, and from her marrow came the sap of Grace that gave you the Fruit which is Grace itself. Her virginal and immaculate roots never left her native soil, that is to say the resplendent womb of The Holy Trinity. She always bathed in the bright gold of paradise.
• Feast of Christ the King, 20th Sunday after Pentecost: Who is the Lamb? It is the Son of God and of immaculate Mary. From all eternity he holds his life from the Father, at the right time he received his humanity from his mother, and he became Jesus Christ. Being Jesus Christ, did he cease to be God? No, he did not cease to be so, but he went as far as to assume human nature, really becoming man to be the Savior, that is Yehoshua.
• Immaculate Conception and 2nd Sunday of Advent: The liturgy of the mass of the second Sunday of Advent harmonizes very well with the proper mass of the Immaculate Conception, because it is still through Mary that the Savior comes To Save the peoples, and to be the Lamb who is the good shepherd and the guide of the just in the Lord’s pastures.
• Sunday of the Holy Family, 1st Sunday after Epiphany: Here is a God who begets his Only Son from himself and who makes one day of this Son a man, without forcing the Divine to use carnal desire to give flesh to the infinite! A man formed by love as the diamond by the fiery heat of the depths! Here is the love of Divinity and the love of the immaculate creature united, and, in the furnace of charity, produce the Love of loves, the Redeemer of all humanity! And while the Firstborn is formed in the inviolate womb of the Immaculate, the Almighty creates for him, at the right moment, the perfect and spotless Soul which can descend to merge, at the right moment, into the flesh conceived by the will of the eternal Spirit and the obedience of a creature: the God-Man is in the living Tabernacle worthy to receive him until the day of his birth.

Lessons on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Romans

• Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans Lesson no.1: Like a basin in which Waters circulate without ever flowing to the mouth, so Mary, very pure Water of a sealed fountain, was born from the incandescent ardor of eternal thought, and passed through the shores of Peace, carrying purity and Peace with her. She entered God to Homelit God and beget the Son of God. She returned to the wild arenas to bring Light, Truth and Life to the deserts of Hearts. Once her Mission accomplished, like water drawn by the sun, she rose again in the mystical womb that had conceived her and that had given her to you so that she could bear you Salvation. There, she is: Unviolated fountain of purity, the only mirror truly worthy of Perfection. And this Perfection, by looking at the Immaculate, forgets all that is offense.
• on the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans Lesson no.11: He who possesses the perfect fear of God from eternity, it is the Word of God, he by whom and for whom all was created, including the marvel of Heaven and Earth: the Immaculate Virgin, Daughter, Mother, Spouse of God.
• Lesson no.14: Mary is the one whom divine Thought – Perfect Will and Power – conceived Immaculate and full of Grace: Daughter, Spouse, Mother of God from all eternity. Mary is the one who fully corresponded to the divine Will with her free will, as free as that of Jesus. Mary is the one who chose to use her free will to constantly walk in the Presence of God, and be perfect. Mary too "did not sin because she did not want to sin". Second Eve, she did not imitate the first. She crushed the Serpent. Completely lost in God who sat enthroned in her spirit and embraced her with love, she was deaf, blind, absent to all that was not God and love for Him.
• on the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans Lesson no.16: The first Eve, for having wanted to be "like God", lost what makes man animal a son of God. You, without greed of any kind, and for having only wanted to be the servant, you became divine. Divine by the nuptials of divine love and by divine Maternity.
  You felt the smallest and poorest of all Women. Pain, constant companion of your life, you found it just. You found it right to endure the fatigues, sufferings and death, consequences of Sin. O beautiful, humble, chaste, patient, obedient, loving Virgin, new Eve, Immaculate by God’s will, Immaculate by your faithful adherence to Grace, this is what God decreed for you: "You shall not die. She who gave Life to the Earth cannot die". This is what God gives you for having given the Fruit of your womb, for having given it so that it be picked, taken, eaten, pressed, and become Bread, Wine, Blood, and Redeemer; your eyes shall open, and you will be like God knowing Good and Evil: the Good, to love and teach to love, O lovable Mistress; the Evil, to employ your weapons Against it.
• on the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans Lesson no.20: This powerful love, which despite its strength never oversteps the bounds of the just respect that the creature must always have for its Creator, is a flower of perfection that God loves with predilection. It is no longer found anywhere else than in Jesus and Mary. The Son of man and the Immaculate have been the new Adam and the new Eve. They repaired the offense of the first Couple and consoled God the Father. They made perfect use of all the gifts received from God. Never did the fact of feeling the favorites of all creatures push them to the prevarication of Pride.
• on the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans Lesson no.23: Let me celebrate here this truth about the Immaculate, who has been and still is mine (it is the Holy Spirit who speaks). Thanks to our joint love, she gave the world the Word who became Flesh: Emmanuel. By the unfaithfulness of the Woman, the human race knew sin, pain, death. By the faithfulness of the Woman, the human race could be born again to Grace, and thus to forgiveness, to pure joy, to Life. Through concupiscence came death, all deaths. Through the purity of a triple virginity of body, thought, and spirit came Life, the true Life, in the just resurrected to eternal life…

In fundamental Christian texts

In the catechism of the Catholic Church

• Over the centuries the Church has become Aware that Mary, "filled with Grace" by God, had been redeemed from the moment of her conception. This is confessed by the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, proclaimed in 1854 by Pope Pius IX.
• The established feast of the Immaculate Conception

In other sources

• Dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
• "Lumen Gentium" on the Vatican site – Chapter eight

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