Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Catholics recite “The Hail Mary” which says, “Hail Mary, full of grace. “Full of grace”, Mary is “the most excellent fruit of redemption” ( SC, 103): from the first instant of her conception, she was totally preserved from the stain of original sin and she remained pure from all personal sin throughout her life,” (CCC, 508).Ĭ says under “Full of Grace” that “These blessings included her role as the New Eve (corresponding to Christ’s role as the New Adam), her Immaculate Conception, her spiritual motherhood of all Christians, and her Assumption into heaven.” As you can see, Mary is greatly exalted even to the point of having “spiritual motherhood of all Christians”–whatever that means.Īlso, since she has been so highly exalted, prayer is also offered to Mary.

“From among the descendants of Eve, God chose the Virgin Mary to be the mother of his Son.That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin, (CCC, 491) “Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, “full of grace” through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception.That she was redeemed from conception and was without sin.“…It was fitting that the mother of him in whom “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” should herself be “full of grace.” She was, by sheer grace, conceived without sin…” ( Catechism of the Catholic Church, par.According to The Catholic Encyclopedia ( TCE) under the topic of Hail Mary, it says, “Hail (Mary) full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women” embodies the words used by the Angel Gabriel in saluting the Blessed Virgin (Luke, I, 28).” The Roman Catholic Church derives all sorts of teachings concerning Mary from the phrase “full of grace.” Two of them are…

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