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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Immaculate Conception
DESCRIPTION:MARY REVEALS HER NAME \nFrom the final writing of St Maximilian Kolbe6 \n◊◊◊ \nIMMACULATE CONCEPTION. These words fell from the lips of the Immaculata herself. Hence\, they must tell us in the most precise and essential manner who she really is. Who then are you\, O Immaculate Conception? Not God\, of course\, because he has no beginning. Not an angel\, created directly out of nothing. Not Adam\, formed out of the dust of the earth. Not Eve\, molded fromAdam’s rib. Not the Incarnate Word\, who exists before all ages… You\, O Mary\, are different from all other children of Eve. They are conceptions stained by original sin; whereas you are the unique\, Immaculate Conception. \nIf the fruit of created love is a created conception\, then the fruit of divine Love\, that prototype of all created love\, is necessarily a divine “conception.” The Holy Spirit is\, therefore\, the “uncreated\, eternal conception\,” the prototype of all the conceptions that multiply life throughout the whole universe. The Father begets; the Son is begotten; the Spirit is the “conception” that springs from their love; there we have the intimate life of the three Persons by which they can be distinguished one from another. But they are united in the oneness of their Nature\, of their divine existence. The Spirit is\, then\, this thrice holy “conception\,” this infinitely holy\, Immaculate Conception. \nIn what does this life of the Spirit in Mary consist? He himself is uncreated Love in her; the Love of the Father and of the Son\, the Love by which God loves himself\, the very love of the Most Holy Trinity. He is a fruitful Love\, a “Conception.” Among creatures made in God’s image the union brought about by married love is the most intimate of all. In a much more precise\, more interior\, more essential manner\, the Holy Spirit lives in the soul of the Immaculata\, in the depths of her very being. He makes her fruitful\, from the very first instant of her existence\, all during her life\, and for all eternity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis eternal “Immaculate Conception” (which is the Holy Spirit) produces in an immaculate manner divine life itself in the depths of Mary’s soul\, making her the Immaculate Conception\, the human Immaculate Conception. And the virginal womb of Mary’s body is kept sacred for him; there he conceives in time…the human life of the Man-God. And so the return to God (which is love)…by the Spirit the Son becomes incarnate in the womb of the Immaculata; and through this Son love returns to the Father. In the Holy Spirit’s union with Mary we observe more than the love of two beings; in one there is all the love of the Blessed Trinity; in the other\, all of creation’s love. So it is that in this union heaven and earth are joined; all of heaven with all the earth\, the totality of eternal love with the totality of created love. It is truly the summit of love… \nIf among human beings the wife takes the name of her husband because she belongs to him\, is one with him\, becomes equal to him and is\, with him\, the source of new life\, with how much greater reason should the name of the Holy Spirit\, who is the divine Immaculate Conception\, be used as the name of her in whom he lives as uncreated Love\, the principle of life in the whole supernatural order of grace \n\n\n6 H.M. Manteau-Bonamy\, OP. Immaculate Conception and the Holy Spirit. Trans. Richard Arnandez\, FSC. Libertyville\, IL: Franciscan\, Marytown Press\, 1977. 2-5. \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n 
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