Was Mary pre-incarnate?

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Was Mary Pre-Incarnate, that is, did she exist in spirit before she was Immaculately Conceived? A friend told me it was in the Catechism, and that we all exist as spirits before our bodies are conceived, but I can’t find it and just does sound right to me. Can you help?
 
Hi,

That is not a teaching of the Catholic Church. The Church teaches that the soul is directly created at the time of conception as in Gen. 2:7 (Catechism of the Catholic Church, # 362, 363, 364, 365). Mary was fully human and in this she was no exception.

Fr, Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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