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“Who are you, O Immaculate Conception?” asks St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe. The Knight of the Immaculata goes on:
Continued reading: Who Are You, O Immaculate Conception? - St. Maximilian Kolbe
High-level Mariology here, I had to read a few of these paragraph again several times to make sure I really got it, and I'll probably read it again to make sure it all really sinks in.
Not God, for God has no beginning. Not Adam, made from the dust of the earth. Not Eve, drawn from Adam’s body. Nor is she the Incarnate Word who already existed from all eternity and who was conceived, but is not really a “conception.” Prior to their conception the children of Eve do not exist, hence they can more properly be called “conceptions”; and yet you, O Mary, differ from them too, because they are conceptions contaminated by original sin, whereas you are the one and only Immaculate Conception.
Continued reading: Who Are You, O Immaculate Conception? - St. Maximilian Kolbe
High-level Mariology here, I had to read a few of these paragraph again several times to make sure I really got it, and I'll probably read it again to make sure it all really sinks in.