Did the Blessed Virgin ever sin?

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No sin against the Holy Spirit may be forgiven. The Virgin Mary is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. As sharing spousal unity with divinity, as we will when Christ returns for His pure and spotless Bride, the Church, Mary cannot have sinned. As “Full of Grace” she cannot have sinned. This is Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Triumph in all hearts, Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Any sin can be forgiven.

 

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If you believe that the “all have sinned” is absolute, then all we need do is find one exception to dispute the “absoluteness” of the claim.

Here are some examples that dispute the “absoluteness” of the “all have sinned” claim.

1. Jesus. He was like us in all things BUT sin.
2. Children before the age of reason. The very definition of sin precludes children before the age of reason (and infants) of sinning.
3. Mentally handicapped. Same reason as 2. Sin is saying, “No!” to God. If a person doesn’t have the capacity to understand what God asks, then they don’t have the capacity to say, “No!” to Him.

So, to say there are no exceptions to the “all have sinned” can easily be proven. Mary is just another exception. She was given this gift by God, not through her own power. She was created without original sin.

Right scooby.

The passage from Romans in context is speaking of Jews and Gentiles. St. Paul is denying any claim that Jews might be exempt from the need of a redeemer. No. They are in the same predicament as the Gentiles (or “Greeks”, as it is translated in the Douay-Rheims). “All have sinned”, or “there is not any man just”, in this context means that it will be of no avail to claim to be Jewish. This is explaining why anybody that a faithful Roman Christian should meet will be in need of grace and faith because neither the law of Moses nor the law of nature can deliver from sin. And even our Lady, as is explained in the text that I quoted from the collect for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, was delivered from sin by the future merits of God’s Son, her Redeemer.

The epistle to the Romans covers a lot of ground. But neither chapter 3, nor any other section of it approaches the question of whether the Mother of God was a sinner.

Do Protestants think that they will be sinners in heaven too? Do they not think it might be a trifle sanctifying to dwell in the clear presence of God? If that will sanctify a soul, how would it be to carry God in your body. There truly isn’t enough reflection by these Protestants on the implications of the Annunciation, the Visitation, and the Nativity of our Lord. Give them a Rosary and tell them to think about the mysteries!

They don’t appreciate what it means to be “FULL of grace”. The statement of the Angel is directly to our Blessed Mother. It carries a ton of weight in considering her complete innocence. Give them a Rosary! The Protestants are unimpressed that when our Lady went to see Elizabeth, the baby in Elizabeth’s womb leapt at the voice of Mary! Her voice and the physical proximity of the Son of God in Mary’s womb sanctified John the Baptist. Don’t look now, but the Protestants will be REALLY upset if they hear that Catholics have the liberty to believe that from this moment, the Baptist was cleansed of original sin. They need the Rosary!

If you ponder these mysteries, as the saints and doctors of the Church have done, it becomes theologically unthinkable to imagine that our Lady was a stained vessel. Ever. I have to go to work. Give them a Rosary, Country Steve! Of course, they will probably reject it. But you should know that this is the problem. Romans 3 is nothing. Your Protestant friends and family mean well but don’t have an appreciation for the meaning of grace and the mighty implications of God’s physical presence. When Moses wanted to see God’s “face”, Moses could only be shown a partial view of God’s glory. Our Lady gazed lovingly on the face of God for 33 years. It is because of the infinite sanctity of Christ that we teach the perfect sanctity of God’s greatest creation, the Blessed Virgin Mary.