I Am The Immaculate Conception
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I watched The Song of Bernadette again about a year ago. I was in tears. One of the best Catholic movies ever made. I emphatically recommend that if you haven’t seen it to watch it! If you have, watch again.
It truly strengthened my faith during these precarious times!
Or, read ‘The Song of Bernadette’ by Franz Werfel. Wonderful!!!
When profiteers told of the plans they had to cart St. Bernadette around Europe, like an oddity in a cheap circus, the family, very poor, looked at Bernadette for a reply.
“I wish to remain poor and do the Father’s will.” Joining the convent and making sacrifices for souls in her time and souls in our time. Still participation in saving souls with the Redeemer. Mini-coredeemers.
The richest Saints are these chosen souls. Humble, not sophisticated and open to the promptings of The Holy Spirit.
St. Bernadette…pray for us.
Our Lady conceived without sin..pray for us who have recourse to thee.
Our Lady of Victory, crush that serpents head once and for all.
Amen.
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“I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION”
When the Blessed Virgin Mary proclaimed the Magnificat to her cousin Elizabeth and all peoples of all time. Mary tells Elizabeth and all persons how to maintain our original innocence, preserve our intimate relationship with our Creator and sublimate our will to the infinite goodness of God as she did sublimate her will to the will of her Creator in perfection from the very first instance of her existence and now, in eternity, forever and forever.
In the very first instance of her existence the immortal soul of The Blessed Virgin Mary with fully informed consent, without any darkness of the devil, asked her Creator for perpetual virginity in body and soul. Perpetual virginity in body and soul was granted to Mary and Mary’ soul retained her fullness of grace and her original innocence into which Mary’s soul was created.
All sovereign persons’ souls are created in original innocence and full of grace. God does not make sin nor evil. God forces no one into heaven nor to do his will. God gives man free will and freedom. God asks for our love in return.
When we have breeched God’s infinite love and creation and guilt and shame fill our souls, Jesus Christ gives us the Sacrament of Reconciliation to reutn us to our original innocence. This does not mean that our bodies will be healed of the damage done by sin. Sometimes our bodies are healed.
Our souls will stand before God in judgement and our sins will be marked on our bodies and our souls in testimony of our evildoing and the mercy of our loving Creator.
Mary testifies to Elizabeth and bears witness of God’s creative love for her and for all mankind in her Magnificat.
“My soul magnifies the Lord
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
Because He has regarded the lowliness of His handmaid;
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed;
Because He who is mighty has done great things for me,
and holy is His name;
And His mercy is from generation to generation
on those who fear Him.
He has shown might with His arm,
He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and has exalted the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich He has sent away empty.
He has given help to Israel, his servant, mindful of His mercy
Even as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his posterity forever.”
Mary spoke to Elizabeth of God’s infinite love for mankind and for herself. Mary spoke of her immortal human soul and of her immortal human soul who will fashion her immortal human body in the fulness of grace.
All mankind have the same access to their infinite Creator if we have the humility to sublimate our wills to the will of our eternal Father in heaven as Mary and Jesus Christ did.
This is why Jesus could say that His Father in heaven is greater than He. Jesus set Himself at the service of His Father in heaven by sublimating His will in perfect conformity to His Father’s will.
Mary said: “I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION” because Mary’s Creator and Redeemer are always present to her as is perfect Love and Grace and Mercy.
Oh, Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to you.
I watched the Mass from Lourdes on EWTN. Some many females in the sanctuary who did not know that they are not men. If God wanted females in the sanctuary they would have been born male.
No, Philip.
“Mini-coredeemers.” Neither Mary nor any saint will accept the title co-redeemer. Only the Son of God, Jesus Christ, in sublimation of His will to His Father’s will in heaven is Redeemer.
Mary will not accept worship or any title which she is not given by God. The Mother of Sorrows is not given to sentimentality.
An invitation to suffer and give the suffering to the Father United in Christ’s sufferings. Victim souls.
Redemptive suffering was taught and lived by many saints.
Our late beloved pope, John Paul II, used more than once the word “coredeemers” in his addresses to the sick. In an audience for the sick on September 8, 1982, he calls Our Lady “Coredemptrix.” He said:
My word goes out to you too, dear sick ones. I invite you to rejoice about the birth of the immaculate Mother, the Immaculata. Mary, who was conceived and born without any stain of sin, participated in a wonderful way in the sufferings of her son, in order to become Coredemptrix of mankind. You know that every pain which is united with the pain of the Redeemer has a great and irreplaceable value for the salvation of souls. Therefore, recognize the inestimable value of your great mission, for which I invoke the consolation of Mary, the deepest joy which the purest Mother’s heart has prepared for you.
John Paul II, who knew from personal experience the value of suffering, called on the Mother of God several times during his pontificate as “Coredemptrix of the human race.” In the light of the Gospel, we understand that we, too, can become coredeemers along with Mary, if we offer up our sufferings.
St. Paul spoke of a lacking in Christ suffering, not that he lacked anything, but that he welcomed souls to help in His mission. An invitation to give a personal hardship to God for numerous intentions, but completely united to Christs suffering.
Mary would never point to herself but would always direct souls to her Son.
It is a fact that Our Lady had to make a decision in the very beginning of redemption history, by giving her Fiat.
God did not force her.
She had to cooperate with God.
That co operation would usher in the Redeemer of mankind.
We too can co operate with God throughout our lives and in doing so help the body of Christ. Christ doesn’t need us. He allows us in His work.
Incredible and beautiful.
We are not elevating ourselves or Mary with titles of co redeemers, but simply expressing a element of our brotherhood which will never be taken away from us as long as we remain humble and committed to our love for God and neighbor.
Saint Paul too offered his suffering to God in Christ. Only God can make expiation to God for sin. Jesus Christ is God and Redeemer.
Co-redeemer is overreach and makes our suffering equal to the suffering of Christ, the God man. We, the people are not divine and only in God, the Creator, who is not the Redeemer can sovereign persons achieve implicit baptism at conception and implicit infinity after death.
Co-Redemptrix is wrong as is Saint John Paul II’s teaching on capital punishment.
St. John Paul II forgave his assassin. That he can do and as a priest John Paul II can forgive my assassin but John Paul II cannot order my forgiveness as I can forgive my assassin, but I cannot forgive your assassin without becoming an accessory after the fact, giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Without repentance suffering is in vain.
Without Christ as Redeemer to His Father in heaven all is in vain.
Mary is an humble ordinary human being, the Mother of God. Mary is the daughter of the Father and spouse of the Holy Spirit. Mary is the Mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Only Jesus Christ can expiate for our sins and redeem mankind.
Mary does not act “in persona Christi” and offer the sacrifice of the Mass. Mary is not given these Holy Orders. Mary became our Mother at the death of Christ on the cross. Mary brings us all to her Son, but Mary cannot act “in persona Christi”
Yes…only Jesus Christ can expiate for our sins and redeem mankind.
Why would our Lady ask for prayers, sacrifices and make reparations for mankind and the loss of souls if it wouldn’t in some way help them and us?
Multiple Pope’s, Saints and Blessed’s fear nothing in the use of the title, co-redeemer.
St.Maximilian Kolbe gives the best explanation based upon her Immaculate Conception.
I’ll provide his reasonings tomorrow.
I just finished a holy hour and need some sleep.
The other saints in the link give good cause as well.
We may differ in opinion but my respect for you will not diminish.
God bless you dear Mary.
https://www.motherofallpeoples.com/post/the-saints-witness-to-mary-coredemptrix
Here it is Mary De Voe.
God bless.
https://www.piercedhearts.org/hearts_jesus_mary/heart_mary/immaculateconception_coredemptrix_miravalle.htm
Philip:
The Redeemer is Jesus alone. Jesus is the principal Mediator by office; Mary is the secondary and associated Redemptrix to this great work by the divine will. (42)
When we get to heaven, Philip, then we can ask Mary what she thinks of being named Co-Redemptrix. Co-operatrix yes. Co-redemptrix no.
If Mary is Co-redemptrix in the hypostatic union then where is Mary’s divinity? Mary’s divinity would make the Holy Eucharist, the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ unnecessary.
The writings conflate the Immaculate Conception with Co-redemptrix. Mary is the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, co-operator with God and Christ in the redemption of herself and mankind. Co-redemptix needs to be divine and Mary does not claim to be divine, even as Jesus emptied Himself of divinity. Jesus emptied Himself of divinity. Jesus and Mary met as human beings, only human beings.
One of the writings claimed Mary to be part of the Hypostatic Union. From the time Jesus became man, He never claimed divinity.
God, the Father in heaven is Co-redeemer.