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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Immaculate Conception
DESCRIPTION:IMMACULATE MARY \nBy Fr Hugo Rahner \n◊◊◊ \nFrom the first instant of Mary’s human existence until her assumption \ninto heaven\, every detail of her life that Revelation has provided is a ‘type of \nwhat is to come.’ The Church is symbolized in Mary. \nThat is true of the first and underlying mystery of her life\, which we know \nfrom the sources of Revelation and from the solemn declaration of the Church\, \nnamely that Mary in the first instant of her conception\, in virtue of the \nredemptive death to come of her divine son\, was preserved free from all stain of \noriginal sin. She possessed from the beginning also\, precisely as a member of \nthe human race redeemed by Christ\, that gift of sanctifying grace which was \ndestined originally for the whole human race from Adam and Eve\, and restored \nto every believer by the death of Christ\, the son of Mary. Thus it is that Mary \nImmaculate is already an essential symbol of the restoration to grace\, a work \nwhich began on the Cross and will have its entire fulfillment at the end of time \nby presenting to the eternal father the family of our first parents\, redeemed into \nthe one glorified Body of Christ: a symbol therefore of the Church. This is how \nthe early fathers saw in Mary Immaculate the Ecclesia Immaculata\, and in this \nfigure of the Church Immaculate the glorious conclusion of the work of \nredemption\, which will be revealed on that day when God who is able to \npreserve you without sin will present you spotless before the presence of his \nglory with exceeding joy\, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. \nGod’s first word of salvation\, spoken outside the locked gates of Paradise\, \nalready indicates a woman\, a single woman\, who could never be overcome by \nSatan: I will put enmities between you and the woman\, and your seed and her \nseed. This woman was first of all Eve\, to whom the astounding promise was \nmade that the Redeemer should come from her race. But the full meaning of the \nprophecy is only realized\, when we see foreshadowed in Eve the other Mother of \nall the living\, who herself should actually give birth to the Savior. But already \nthen\, said Augustine\, Mary was included in Eve; yet is was only when Mary \ncame\, that we knew who Eve was. The woman who crushed the serpent’s head \nwas the mother of God Incarnate. From the beginning of catholic theology the \ntext has been thus interpreted. Christ\, the son of the woman of the promise\, \nwould conquer Satan\, and therefore God put enmities between the serpent and \nthe woman\, until the promised seed came to crush its head\, the seed of Mary.
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