La Immaculada Concepcion (The Immaculate Conception)

Was any human person ever preserved from original sin?

-The Blessed Virgin Mary was preserved from original sin in view of the merits of of her Divine Son, and this privilege is called her Immaculate Conception.

"And when the angel had come to her, he said, 'Hail full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women'" (Luke 1:28).\

1. From the very first moment of her conception the Blessed Virgin was preserved from all stain of original sin. She was conceived and born without original sin.

God, having ordained that Mary was to be the Mother of His Son, could not permit her soul to lack

for a single instant all those graces that would make her most pleasing to Him.

2. Our Blessed Mother's soul was created as pure and spotless as the soul of Eve. Where Eve committed sin and lost her spotlessness, our Mother Mary kept herself pure and spotless to the end of her life.

We commemorate the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on December 8.

3. St. John the Baptist was cleansed from original sin while he was still in the womb of his mother. He was born free from sin, but he was, like us, conceived in sin.

(From:Morrow, Bishop Louis LaRavoire. My Catholic Faith. N.P.: International Copyright Union, 1954.)