Mary was given the singular privileges of
being conceived without sin, conceiving and bearing the Incarnate God, and
being assumed bodily into heaven. We
know that in God’s wise plan, every great gift he gives always comes with a
great responsibility, and Mary was no exception. Being chosen, for a Jew, meant being weighted
down with the burdens of others to help bear them up with love to God. Mary is full of grace, but full for you and
for me; she is a vessel of God’s overflowing and particular love for all
mankind, and for each man and woman. God
gave her each of these particular graces so that she could become a universal
Mother to all those who are joined to her Son.
--Fr. Basil
Pennington
Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!
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