WHY THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (REASONS BEHIND IT)
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| Immaculate Mother |
“On
earth the Word shall have a Mother without a father, as in heaven He has a
Father without a mother. And in order that there may be the proper
correspondence, proportion and consonance in calling God his Father and this
Woman his Mother, We desire that the highest correspondence and approach
possible between a creature and its God be established. Therefore at no time
shall the dragon boast of being superior to the Woman, whom God will obey as
his true Mother. This dignity of being free from sin is due and corresponds to that
of being Mother of the God incarnate, and it is in itself even more estimable
and useful. It is a greater good to be holy than to be only mother; but all
sanctity and perfection is nevertheless due to the motherhood of God.
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| The dignity of being free from sin |
The human
flesh, from which He is to assume form, must be free from sin. Since He is to
redeem in it the sinners, He must not be under the necessity of redeeming his
own flesh, like that of sinners. Being united to the Divinity his humanity is
to be the price of Redemption, wherefore it must before all be preserved from
sin, and We have already foreseen and accepted the merits of the Word in this
very flesh and human nature. We wish that for all eternities the Word should be
glorified through this tabernacle and habitation of the human nature.”
“She is to be a daughter of the first man; but in the order of
grace She is to be singularly free and exempt from fault; and in the order of
nature She is to be most perfect, and to be formed according to a special
providence.”
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| The three divine Persons speaking to the angels |
This was the decree which the three divine Persons made known to the
holy angels, exalting the glory and honour of their high and inscrutable
judgments.
