Mary... meanings?

[PLAT]

What is the meaning of immaculate comception?
Is Mary bounded to original sin? (I … supposed no?)
Proof that Mary remained a Virgin? (like, Did Mary and Joseph sleep seperately?)
Had Mary ever sinned?

 

[Barbkw]

The Compendium of the Catechism vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html#I Believe in Jesus Christ, the Only Son of God
says:

"96. What does the “Immaculate Conception” mean?

487-492
508

God freely chose Mary from all eternity to be the Mother of his Son. In order to carry out her mission she herself was conceived immaculate. This means that, thanks to the grace of God and in anticipation of the merits of Jesus Christ, Mary was preserved from original sin from the first instant of her conception.

1. How does Mary cooperate in the divine plan of salvation?

493-494
508-511

By the grace of God Mary was kept free from every personal sin her whole life long. She is the one who is “full of grace” (Luke 1:28), “the all holy”. When the angel announced to her that she would give birth to “the Son of the Most High” (Luke 1:32), she freely gave her consent with “the obedience of faith” (Romans 1:5). Mary thus gave herself entirely to the person and work of her Son Jesus, espousing wholeheartedly the divine will regarding salvation.

1. What does the virginal conception of Jesus mean?

496-498
503

The virginal conception of Jesus means that Jesus was conceived in the womb of the Virgin solely by the power of the Holy Spirit without the intervention of a man. He is the Son of the heavenly Father according to his divine nature and the Son of Mary according to his human nature. He is, however, truly the Son of God in both natures since there is in him only one Person who is divine.

1. In what sense is Mary “ever Virgin”?

499-507
510-511

Mary is ever virgin in the sense that she “remained a virgin in conceiving her Son, a virgin in giving birth to him, a virgin in carrying him, a virgin in nursing him at her breast, always a virgin” (Saint Augustine). Therefore, when the Gospels speak of the “brothers and sisters of Jesus”, they are talking about the close relations of Jesus, according to the way of speaking used in Sacred Scripture.

1. In what way is the spiritual motherhood of Mary universal?

501-507
511

Mary had only one Son, Jesus, but in him her spiritual motherhood extends to all whom he came to save. Obediently standing at the side of the new Adam, Jesus Christ, the Virgin is the new Eve, the true mother of all the living, who with a mother’s love cooperates in their birth and their formation in the order of grace. Virgin and Mother, Mary is the figure of the Church, its most perfect realization.

 

[Barbkw]

Please also see under the title “Mary” the various explanations of the Blessed Virgin Mary at:

(Click on the underlined numbers on the Vatican website and it will take you directly to the explanation).

vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/index/m.htm

From the Catechism:

Mary

Christ’s Mother by the power of the Holy Spirit, 437, 456, 484-86, 723-26

the Church and
active example and type of the Church, 967
Church reaches towards perfection in, 829
place in the mystery of the Church, 773, 963-72
spiritual motherhood, 501

Mary in the economy of salvation
Annunciation, 484, 490
assent, 148, 490, 494
Assumption, 966
conception by the Holy Spirit, 437, 456, 484-86, 495, 723
the Immaculate Conception, 490-93
mediatrix of grace, 969
predestination of, 488-89, 508
preserved from sin, 411
virginity, 496-98, 502-07
visitation to Elizabeth as God’s visitation to His people, 717
works of the Holy Spirit, 721-26

Mary as exemplar
of holiness, 2030
of hope, 64
of obedience of faith, 144, 148-49, 494
of prayer in the “Fiat” and “Magnificat,” 2617, 2619
of union with the Son, 964
and witness of faith, 165, 273

titles of Mary
Advocate, Help, Benefactress, Mediatrix, 969
Assumed into heaven, 966
Eschatological icon of the Church, 967, 972
Ever Virgin, 499-501
Full of grace, 722, 2676
Handmaid of the Lord, 510
“Hodigitria” or “She shows the way,” 2674
Immaculate, 491-92
Mother of Christ, 411
Mother of the Church, 963-70
Mother of God, 466, 495, 509
Mother of the living, 494, 511
The New Eve, 411
“Panagia” or All Holy, 493
Seat of Wisdom, 721

veneration of Mary
faith concerning the veneration of Mary based on faith concerning Christ, 487
liturgical feasts of, 2043, 2177
in the liturgical year, 1172, 1370
not adoration, 971
prayer to, 2675-79
respect for the name of, 2146

 

[Purple_Junebug]

What is the meaning of immaculate comception?
Is Mary bounded to original sin? (I … supposed no?)
Proof that Mary remained a Virgin? (like, Did Mary and Joseph sleep seperately?)
Had Mary ever sinned?

The immaculate conception means Mary was concieved without original sin, therefore concieved immaculately, this answers your second question as well
Read Matthew 1: 24-25
“When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had comanded him and took his wife into his home. He had no relations with her until she bore a son, and he named him Jesus”
This proves she was a virgin when she concieved, carried, and bore the baby Jesus. There is no definite “proof” that she stayed a virgin after that, but that doesn’t really matter, the point is that she was ALWAYS pure and holy. Even if she DID have relations with Joseph after Jesus was born, which we don’t know for sure, she would still be holy because they are married.
Finally, to answer your last question, Mary never sinned because she was born without original sin. Original sin is what makes us vulnerable to keep sinning, since Mary never had this, she never sinned.

 

[adrift]

This proves she was a virgin when she conceived, carried, and bore the baby Jesus. There is no definite “proof” that she stayed a virgin after that, but that doesn’t really matter, the point is that she was ALWAYS pure and holy. Even if she DID have relations with Joseph after Jesus was born, which we don’t know for sure, she would still be holy because they are married.
Finally, to answer your last question, Mary never sinned because she was born without original sin. Original sin is what makes us vulnerable to keep sinning, since Mary never had this, she never sinned.

It is an infallible teaching that Mary ALWAYS remained a virgin. Yes we do know that she never had relations with Joseph.
The Catechism states emphasis is mine

499
The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary’s real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to the Son of God made man.154 In fact, Christ’s birth "did not diminish his mother’s virginal integrity but sanctified it."155 And so the liturgy of the Church celebrates Mary as Aeiparthenos, the "Ever-virgin."156