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“Thou
art all fair … and there is not a spot in thee.” – Canticle 4:7
Our Lady, The All-Pure...
"Remember, My children, come to My Mother; for in Her memory of Her human days upon earth, She above all humans created--sinless, without the stigma of sin, a perfect life upon earth without sin, and assumed into Heaven, body and spirit—She above all can direct you because She is your Mother; She is the Queen of Heaven, and the Mother of every human being upon earth." - Jesus, August 14, 1979
The following is an excerpt from Our Lady: Queen of the Religious Life, by Fr. Louis Colin C.SS.R.
In regard to Mary, the liturgy shows itself lavish with titles reminding us of her candor, her innocence: she is all-beautiful, all-fair, all-immaculate; the virginal creature, inviolate, without stain, without spot, sinless; the sealed source, the enclosed garden, the closed door—in short, Purity itself.
This word, whose richness everyone senses, remains nevertheless in the minds of many, something vague, light and soft, imprecise. Let us try to analyze it and to grasp all that it contains.
The purity of a being consists in the absolute simplicity and the exclusive integrity of its nature. A substance is pure when it is all that it should be and nothing more, when nothing else is found in it, mixed with its essential bases, no dissimilar element, nothing which is contrary or foreign to its intrinsic structure or to its own particular qualities.
Purity, then, excludes all amalgam, all mixture, all alloy. Thus is it said that water is pure when it does not contain a single trace of detritus or miasma which can muddy or contaminate it. God is pure when it includes no trace of foreign mineral: tin, zinc, copper.
Likewise, thanks to certain chemical manipulations, one can analyze a compound, disassociate its different elements and reduce them to a simple state, a pure state.
A race remains pure as long as it resists all mixture of blood, all alliance foreign to its group, and keeps intact its distinctive features and its primitive virtues. Purity, then—as might be believed—is not something altogether negative, an absence of spot or blemish. On the contrary, it is a reality, a perfection of being: an immunity, an independence, a power of resistance against anything that might invade, disintegrate or corrupt it.
On this score, purity, like light, admits of infinite degrees. The more a substance maintains itself in its original integrity, safe from all destructive or harmful influence, the more pure it is.
And now, it will be easy for us to have an understanding, on a superior plane, in the more and supernatural domain, of purity of soul, particularly of the virginal and incorruptible purity of Our Lady.
Spiritual purity, which Saint Thomas holds to be the very foundation of sanctity (Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 81, a. 8c), would, then, consist in the absolute and permanent integrity of the supernatural life without any admixture of evil or foreign elements.
Baptism confers on the newborn, together with sanctifying grace, the infused virtues and the gifts of the Holy Ghost, a divine nature and marvelous powers of operation, which he must use in order to know God, to love Him, to serve Him, and by this means to merit eternal life.
It is this moral organism which it is of the utmost importance to keep intact in all its strength and splendor, dispelling all that might falsify, degrade, or debase our moral personality. Our first consideration is to remove anything that might destroy grace within us, that might soil our conscience, darken our faith, weaken our trust, cause charity to languish, sterilize our virtues—in short, anything that might form an obstacle to the fullness of our divine life an our perfect union with God.
Purity of soul in a Christian will spring from the soul’s fidelity in keeping the baptismal vows. Has this being not pledged himself to renounce Satan and the world, with its spirit, its maxims, its works; to live by faith as a child of God, as a living member of Jesus Christ in all things, in all places, and at all times bearing and glorifying the Most High in the holy temple of his body? (Cf. 1 Cor. 6:20.) This robe of innocence with which he was clothed at the baptismal font he will keep from every tear or spot so as to wear it immaculate before the tribunal of God.
To this fundamental purity of the Christian, the religious adds another which is deeper and more universal: a more complete and more definite separation from the corrupted and corrupting world, an irreducible opposition to everything that might fraudulently diminish his complete belonging and total subjection to the Lord, to all that might contaminate his spirit of poverty, chastity, obedience, all that might impoverish his interior life, prevent him from dying to self and being buried in Christ, from living henceforth only for God.
In brief, for a consecrated soul, purity would find its expression in this motto: “To be a religious, to be a religious completely, exclusively, and to be nothing but a religious.” Like Saint Benedict, he desired to be “alone with The Alone.”
Is it necessary to add that nobody here below possesses that spiritual candor in its fullness? How many distortions do we find in all men, even the most saintly, what weaknesses, what falls, what sins, what imperfections, what deficiencies! Who has ever been all that he should have been? Under the influence of multiple motives, every moral being becomes degraded and every life is contaminated.
A single creature is the exception: Our Lady. Alone, she was always, to the fullest extent of the term, integra et casta, she in whom all is pure. She was a virgin in body and in soul, a virgin in all her faculties and in all her senses, a virgin in all her thoughts, desires, affections, wishes, imaginings, memories; she was a virgin in all her activities, and in all her works. Having come forth immaculate from the Hand of the Creator, she was to remain so all her life.
The Immaculate Conception is a mystery of grace and, pre-eminently, of integrity. From the very first moment Mary possessed in the natural order and in the supernatural order, and in a becoming measure, all the perfections, virtues and gifts requisite for her future divine and human maternity and for her twofold role of co-redemptrix and universal mediatrix. She lacked nothing, absolutely nothing of what she should have, and she would continue to lack nothing throughout her life.
To this integrity was then added a grace of immunity: preservation from original sin. “We declare, pronounce and define that the doctrine according to which, by a special grace and privilege of Almighty God and in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, the Blessed Virgin Mary was preserved from all stain of original sin from the very first instant of her conception, has been revealed by God and must therefore be firmly and constantly believed by all the faithful.” (Denziger, Enchiridion Symbolorum, n. 1641)
Because Our Lady was exempt from original corruption, she escaped by that very privilege the lamentable consequences of the sin of Adam. In her intelligence, her will, her heart, there was not the slightest trace of slime from the first fall or of the millenary atavism. Her whole being is one of absolute rectitude with no moral deformation or evil tendency. There was no discord in her harmonious soul. “The brightness of eternal light—candor … lucis eternae” (Wisdom 7:26); mirror without spot—“speculum justitiae”; royal beauty without the appearance of a wrinkle—she is “the Immaculate.”
Was Mary able during the whole of her earthly existence to keep intact that original purity which was superior to that of the angels and which God alone surpasses? Did she live always rich in her moral integrity and clad in her primal innocence?
The entire body of tradition teaches and Christian understanding has always affirmed that all through her life Mary avoided every serious fault. No theologian has ever disputed or refused to ascribe to the Mother of God this confirmation in grace, this privilege of sinlessness, even of impeccability.
“If Mary, by committing only one venial offense, which does not really deprive the soul of divine grace, might be said not to have been a worthy mother of God, how much more so if she had been stained with original sin, which would have made her an enemy of God, and a slave of the devil! Saint Augustine says, therefore, in a celebrated passage of his writings (De Natura et gratia, cap. XXVI) that, speaking of Mary, he would make no mention of sins, for the honor of that Lord whom she merited for her Son, and through whom she had the grace to conquer sin in every way” (Saint Alphonsus).
There is the same unanimity in regard to venial sin, deliberate or indeliberate, and for the same reason. In the judgment of the Council of Trent, “Man once justified cannot continue throughout his life to avoid all venial sin, without a special privilege like that which the Church recognizes as having been given to the Blessed Virgin.” (Session VI, canon 23, in Denziger, Enchiridion Symbolorum, n. 833)
“All pure was the Blessed Virgin, and without a stain; for, since she was exempt from original sin she did not afterwards commit any actual fault, mortal or venial” (Garrigou-Lagrange).
And Bossuet says: “Is there any just man who can escape those sins of weakness which we call venial? Although this supposition is so general and so true, the admirable Saint Augustine does not fear to exempt the most innocent Mary from it.”
Our Lady was able to avoid even those semi-deliberate, half-venial sins, of surprise, of weakness, of circumstance, from which even the greatest saints were not exempt. There was no surprise in that woman, always so vigilant and always mistress of herself; there was no compromise in that valiant Virgin, stronger than an army in battle array; there was no occasion to fall in that soul which always lived a stranger to the world and was completely lost in God.
If we are to believe the voice of sanctity, of theology, and of the heart, the moral virginity of Mary excluded even the tiniest voluntary imperfection. “Mary never committed a sin, not even the least” (Saint Alphonsus). “It was sovereignly becoming that the Blessed Virgin Mary, who had been destined to reinstate us, should triumph over the devil to the point of never yielding an inch nor a line to him, ad modicum” (Saint Thomas).
“In truth, Thou Thyself and Thy mother art alone, in every respect, of perfect beauty, ‘for in neither Thee nor Thy mother is found the slightest stain’” (Saint Ephraem). This doctrine Pius XII made his own, affirming in one of his encyclicals on the Blessed Virgin: “The perfect innocence of her souls [was] exempt from every fault!”
“The Fathers of the Church and theologians, by the very way in which they treat of Mary, exclude even the slightest voluntary imperfection,” observes Father Garrigou-Lagrange.
As she was free from all concupiscence and was absolute mistress of her interior faculties, spiritual and sensitive, she never experienced a spontaneous urge of selfishness, she never needed to fight or to repress the first movement of passion. We always observe some alloy even in the purest of souls, “a slight warping, an attachment. Mary is
Rectitude pure and simple. She is all-Virgin. There is not a disturbance, not a shadow.” (“Notre-Dame de la Route,” Les Cahiers de la Vierge, Nov. 1935, p. 89)We would seek in vain for any manifestation in her of those faults of character or of temperament which are sequels of original sin or offshoots of heredity.
In that long, marvelously well-filled life, no time was lost, not a minute was squandered and barren. At every moment Mary was performing the work of sanctity and of divine glorification. “Mary did not cease to have her eyes fixed on the ultimate end of her journey, on God Himself, and she did not lose a minute of the time which was given to her. Every instant of her earthly life, through her accumulated and increasingly perfect merits, entered thus into the one instant of motionless eternity.” (Garrigou-Lagrange).
None of those half-acts of virtue (actus remissi) can be attributed to Mary which are so frequent with us, acts performed without eagerness or generosity, merely through routine or habit, without any great spirit of faith and love. With the Immaculate, the virtues bore only fruits that had reached their full maturity, and were juicy and savory. Everywhere and always Mary acted with the totality of the grace she had received, with the plenitude of her will and of her love, thus accomplishing all day long “the best possible,” “the most perfect.”
Thanks to her intimate and unbroken union with God, to her disengagement from all things created, her soul vibrated to every breath of the Holy Spirit with exquisite sensitivity and perfect docility. There was not a single call, a single invitation or desire of the Spouse which did not find a joyous echo and loving response in her heart.
Had she been questioned as to what she would have done if she could begin her life again, Our Lady would, without hesitation, have answered: “What I have done.” She had nothing to regret, nothing to repair. Like Jesus, she had done all things well: “Omnia bene fecit” (Mark 7:37).
A passage from the Bull Ineffabilis Deus of Pius IX seems to sum up very clearly the Catholic doctrine on the purity of the Virgin: “That is why, drawing from the treasure of His divinity, God lavished upon her more than upon all the angelic spirits, more than upon all the saints, an abundance of all celestial graces and enriched her with a marvelous profusion, in order that she might always be without stain, entirely exempt from the slavery of sin, all-beautiful, all-perfect, and have such a plentitude of innocence and of holiness that none could be conceived greater under God, and no mind but that of God could measure her greatness.”
"To give Me honor does not detract or take from the honor to My Son. I say this, My child, to you and My children in all humility. I, your Mother, I, too, am but an instrument of the Father in Heaven. My Son has chosen to send Me to you as a Mediatrix between your world and the world of the Father." - Our Lady of the Roses, December 24, 1974
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MOTHER OF GRACE
"My child and My children, I have come to you under many names in the past, but
I want you to acknowledge Me as the Mother of Grace. Because that is why I come
to you now, My children: to give you the graces necessary to remain upon earth
in a state of purity and perseverance, and knowledgeable to the truth that will
lead you and keep you on the narrow road to Heaven." -
Our Lady, September
14, 1985
CO-REDEMPTRIX
"You will not stop the words of My Mother. She is your Co-Redemptrix, and as
such, it is She Who has been given the mission to bring you back onto the road
to the Kingdom. Without Her you will be lost." - Jesus, August 5, 1974
PROTECTRESS
"I come to you as a Protectress of peace." -
Our Lady, October2, 1990
SHIELD
"I ask you for a constant vigil of prayer so that satan will not enter upon you.
You must now say when you arise: I will protect myself with the shield of
the Immaculate Conception. You will say before you enter your bed (which
will not be a bed of security and comfort now): I protect myself with the
shield of the Immaculate Conception. For, My children, when you sleep he
does not sleep." - Our Lady, July 1, 1971
MANTLE OF LOVE
"My children, as a Mother, My heart is torn for you. O mothers who come to Me,
hearts bleeding in sorrow, I will comfort you, for I, too, know the suffering of
loss. Come to Me, all you who sorrow and weep for your children, for I will
place My mantle of love and comfort upon you. Come to Me, and I will lighten
your burden." - Our Lady, October 6, 1979
SINLESS
"Remember, My children, come to My Mother; for in Her memory of Her human days
upon earth, She above all humans created--sinless, without the stigma of sin, a
perfect life upon earth without sin, and assumed into Heaven, body and
spirit--She above all can direct you because She is your Mother; She is the
Queen of Heaven, and the Mother of every human being upon earth." - Jesus,
August 14, 1979
NATIONS
"As a great Mother of great sorrows, She has opened Her heart to all mankind,
choosing of Her own free will to act as your Mother, the Mother of all nations,
the Mother of all children of earth--to guide you back to the road to Heaven." -
Jesus, October 6, 1979
BELOVED DAUGHTER
"You have witnessed, my child, the arrival of my beloved daughter, my first and
only child, one whom I cherished--a true miracle from the Father." -
Saint
Anne, September 7, 1973
BEAUTY
Veronica - Now within the light I can see Our Lady. Oh, She is so beautiful. She
is just so beautiful! Words cannot describe Her beauty. All I can say is, this
is something that is not earthly; it's the most heavenly sight that anyone could
see. Our Lady has on Her white gown, with the gold trim all about the edge. And
She has the mantle over Her head. I very seldom have even seen a wisp of Our
Lady's hair. It is so beautiful. - October 6, 1988
TRUTH
Veronica - She wants to give to all a simple truth from the Father. Our Lady
says that much has been questioned by man of Her immaculate conception of Jesus.
And also Her birth.
Now Our Lady said that the Father knew before Her birth and the birth of all
on earth what would transpire in time to come.
Therefore, Her birth was not by accident, because before time came, it was
all deemed to be. Therefore, the questioning also of the birth of Her Son would
be most easy to understand, Our Lady said, if you know the power of the Father.
For nothing is impossible with God.
The world needed to be saved. The gates of Heaven needed to be opened to a
sinful man. Therefore, the Father deemed to send His Son to earth and planned
before "My birth," Our Lady says--Her birth, that She should be there to bring
forth this heavenly Being Who would be known as the Son of Man and the Son of
God.
It was the plan of the Father to try to teach man and lead him back to the
road to the Kingdom which had been shut to him. And because of his evil ways and
his turning to satan, he had lost that road and the keys had been taken from him
temporarily.
Therefore, when, Our Lady said, She saw Her Son sacrificed upon the wood,
She suffered greatly. But Her suffering and Her joy was intermingled, for She
was given the knowledge before the birth of the Son that He would come to save
all mankind. Therefore, when He returned to the Father, Her heart was lightened,
knowing that She would remain but a short time and join Him in the Kingdom. So
the loss was but a temporary heartache to Her.
Our Lady knows that many question this. It is only because satan wishes to
place doubt and destroy the truth. So Our Lady asks that you keep in your heart
the truth and be not swayed by scientific minds that have been given great
knowledge, but never the truth. - December 30, 1972
ONLY CHILD
"I come to you as your God, and I also want to make this clear: I did not have
any brothers or sisters in My family. My Mother was Mary Ever Virgin. This was a
supernatural manifestation from Heaven and only those who are in the light, they
fully understand the existence of My Mother and the role She played in
establishing the One, True Church upon earth." - Jesus, October 2, 1987
GENTLEST
"I give you My heart, torn anew by My own. I give you My Mother, the gentlest of
creatures, human and sublime. I give you My Mother Who will be with you through
the battle until I return as I ascended into Heaven." -
Jesus, August 14,
1979
CONSECRATED
"My children, it is only because many years ago you consecrated your country to
Me* that you have not received the destruction that is gradually coming closer
to you from the outside world. But if you turn from Me now I no longer will be
able to shield you." - Our Lady, July 1, 1971
*In 1846, eight years before Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the Sixth Council of Baltimore formally chose the Blessed Virgin Mary conceived without sin as the Patroness of the United States.
MY HEEL
"I stand upon the head of the serpent. My heel will crush him, but not until man
and the world have been cleansed. I come as a Mediatrix of all graces,
representative through My Son in the Father." - Our Lady, March 18, 1973
INSTRUMENT
"To give Me honor does not detract or take from the honor to My Son. I say
this, My child, to you and My children in all humility. I, your Mother, I, too,
am but an instrument of the Father in Heaven. My Son has chosen to send Me to
you as a Mediatrix between your world and the world of the Father." -
Our
Lady, December 24, 1974
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"My children, My little humble children, I appeal to you as your Mother, go forward on foot, knock on the doors; bring the light to your brothers and sisters. For those who have been given great grace, much is expected of them." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 26, 1976
"As disciples of the latter days, My children, much shall be asked of you, but I assure you: all that you give in faith and charity shall be returned to you threefold." - Jesus, June 1, 1978
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