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The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. [2] Debated by medieval theologians, it was not defined as a dogma until 1854, [3] by Pope Pius IX in the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus . [4]
- Original Sin
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- The Church Fathers
- The Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary
When Catholics talk about Original Sin, we’re referring to the inherited wound all men and women have in their souls. That wound was inflicted by the sin of our first parents (Adam and Eve), has been passed on since that Fall, and will continue to be passed on until the end of time. The effects of the wound are known all too well. We don’t even ha...
Thanks to her Immaculate Conception, Mary never suffered the deprivation of grace to begin with. She was full up from the start. That fullness of grace enabled her to choose the good and the right every day of her life. Like our first parents, who also were created with a certain fullness of grace, she could have sinned. But she didn’t. Not once. ...
The early Church Fathers also compared Mary’s sinless state to Eve’s sinless state before her fall. Mary, as the “New Eve,” was believed to have enjoyed the same state of original grace and justice that Eve was granted in the Garden. Since Eve was obviously created in a state of grace, without the fallen nature the rest of us have inherited from ...
In the end, though, it really shouldn’t be all that hard to believe in Mary’s Immaculate Conception. After all, God originally intended for all of us to be immaculately conceived. His first plan was that every man and every woman would begin their life in the family of God. Only because of the Fall are we now conceived without that fullness of gra...
May 21, 2024 · Immaculate Conception, Roman Catholic dogma asserting that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was preserved free from the effects of the sin of Adam (usually referred to as “ original sin ”) from the first instant of her conception.
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Finally in 1854, with the Bull Ineffabilis, Pius IX solemnly proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception: "... We declare, pronounce and define that the doctrine which asserts that the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God, and in view of the merits of Jesus Christ ...
Sep 1, 2023 · The Church’s teaching on the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Conception was defined only after centuries of tense theological debate. It was proclaimed to be dogma — doctrine pertaining to divinely revealed truth, which Catholics are obliged to believe — in 1854.
5 days ago · More specifically, the dogma of the Immaculate Conception states "that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege from Almighty...
May 17, 2022 · Edward Dennis O'Connor, C.S.C., a specialist in mediaeval theology, notes in his preface that the subject of the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Conception was first discussed about the year 1100. The doctrine was defined by Pope Pius IX in 1854 after about seventy-five years of "what was perhaps the most prolonged and passionate debate that has ever ...
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