09/12/2024

Why is Mary "The Immaculate Conception"?

The Resurrection is the most important event in History. In Scripture God reveals to us how he wants us to live in his creation. The Resurrection is not, however, the sole revelation about "being" made by the Father.

The Resurrection is the beginning of the completion of the Old Testament faith that Our Father revealed in order to rectify the disruption to creation caused by Adam's and Eve's misuse of human freedom.

We have always struggled to understand how it is that Ever-Greater, the all knowing, supreme being seems to be in need of human co-operation for it is this supreme being "IAMIAM" that he reveals to Abraham.

Throughout the ages and throughout my lifetime he has trusted mankind and me to become his willing partners in the "Good" that he saw in this Universe. 

The Apostles and others who saw the risen Lord were completely mystified for they knew empirically that he was who dead on Friday was walking  and talking with them on Sunday.

Since that time millions of us have tried to as it were to "reverse engineer" the "Resurrection" and explain how and why this unique event took place.

The complete sinlessness of Mary, the mother-to-be has to be assumed if we are to use our human minds to assimilate the Truth of the Incarnation; IAMIAM the ONE reveals that he is in fact FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and that it is as a normal human, SON, that he sacrifices himself to destroy death, and so open for us  the Way, Truth and Life.

Jesus is a natural human being but without any trace of sin. For him to be thus his Mother too has to be without sin as he is "begotten of the FATHER not made" and so she is entitled the Immaculate  Conception for this is her uniquely sinless "human being".

Dear Lord, you know how I am trying to prepare for  the feast of your Nativity. As a human it is easy for me to become overcome by sentimentality at this time of year. I always feel ashamed by this but I hope that a soft heart is not too sinful if it does not interfere with the sincerity with which I am always preparing for "The Last Things". In the above declaration of Faith, I now realise that I did not mention Love. It is out of Love for us that you reveal that we need to cooperate and avoid the defect that is our stubborn rejection / forgetfulness of our need to respond to Love and keep ourselves from being drowned by the oceans of  this worldliness that makes sin the dominate force in out lives. May the holiness epitomised in the Holy Families both old new become the goal for all human life and may my sins and all other sinners be forgiven by your mercy poured out on Calvary for us and the Holy Souls. Amen