The Immaculate Conception of Mary

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The Immaculate Conception, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, is the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary free from original sin by virtue of the foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church teaches that Mary was conceived by normal biological means in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne, but God acted upon her soul, keeping it “immaculate”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conception

b :a general idea :concept
We get the conception of an animal … by comparing different animals … —John Stuart Mill
 
I was just dumbfounded to realize that many many people go through a good portion of their lives without knowing the difference between ‘conception’ as a thought and ‘conception’ as a birth giving process.

There may still be many Christians and or Catholics that do not realize that Immaculate Conception has to do with the ‘conception’ or thought, that Mary was/is ever Immaculate.

Even I was shocked when I realized that ‘conception’ had both meanings also.

Another similar shock could be how many people go through a good portion of their lives not knowing that Christopher Columbus never set foot on the present day contiguous states land territory. He only set foot on South and Central America.
 
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This just goes to show the ‘fallibility’ of the Roman Catholic Church by not having all Catholics know of the doctrine of Immaculate Conception being related to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, rather than Jesus Himself.

Besides, wasn’t it Pope Francis that said that we all make mistakes but it is through working with God during those times that builds ‘faith’?

Pope Francis, or The Bishop of Rome, goes on to say that it is NOT the mistakes that need to be scrutinized but rather the concealing of such matters that leads to corruption.

Another question… The Apostle Peter was supposedly the first ‘pope’ or Bishop of Rome…

1 Timothy 3

1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
6 not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

And Peter did have a wife since he had a mother-in-law.

Matthew 8:14
“And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.”

Mark 1:30
“But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.”

All leadership positions within the Early Churches had prescriptions that their male leaders be married to one wife so that they would not be tempted to sin sexually.

The male body does have a propensity to have tensions needing to be released… Why God made males this way, I’m not sure but within the marriage of 1 man and 1 woman, these tensions could be dealt with Lawfully and with Godliness, rather than leading a group but denying the realities of life.

I cannot suppose to hope that all males will take the Celibate path that many others have even though The Apostle Paul says that to remain unmarried is better than to marry.

Speaking the Truth from the heart is of much more worth to others than speaking flatteries.

Psalm 15:1-2
"LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

2He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart."

John 14:6
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

Speaking the truth, Jesus Christ, in his heart…

Another note: The letter ‘J’. Old English did not have it. Latin did not have it… Greek does not have it.

Iesus
IESVS
Ἰησοῦς

So where do we get the letter ‘J’ from?
 
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What I have found on occasion is that some Catholics mistake the Immaculate Conception for the Virgin Birth. A coworker once said to me “why isn’t the Immaculate Conception celebrated 9 months before Christmas? I said, “Because it’s about Mary’s conception, not Jesus’.” (The Annunciation, celebrated on March 25th, is the date for the celebration of Jesus conception in the womb of Mary.)
 
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Immaculate Conception,
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491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, “full of grace” through God, 134 was redeemed from the moment of her conception. …
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That conception is celebrated since ancient times:
The Feast of the Conception of the Holy Mother of God was celebrated by the Byzantine Church as a miraculous event. St. John Damascene (d. 749), who faithfully reflects the Byzantine tradition, explained:
“Why is the Virgin Mother born of a previously sterile mother? Simply, because it was necessary that the way to what was to be a new thing under the sun and the greatest of all wonders (i.e. a Virgin Mother) had to be paved by some lesser wonders in order that a gradual ascent be made from lower to more sublime.

For the rest, I can advance yet another, more sublime and divine reason. Nature yields to grace and became indecisive, stopping to act.

Since the Mother of God was to be born as a virgin (i .e. without sin) of Anne, nature did not dare to impede the Bud of Grace but remained devoid of fruit (Anne’s sterility) , while the grace was bringing forth its fruit,” meaning Mary (cf. P.G. , 96, 663-664).
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