As we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception today, let us open ourselves to the fullness of God’s grace at work within us enabling us to do impossible.
https://www.lizziebernedegear.com/blog/2017/8/24/the-annunciation-and-the-gaze-of-grace-1
Catholic theologian Lizzie Berne Degar writes, "According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is the fact that Gabriel salutes Mary as "full of grace" that is at the heart of the notion of Immaculate Conception. (,para.490-493) The one who will give birth to grace is herself borne by grace. Mary's womb is the holding environment where Christ will come into being and grow....We see Mary as both womb-bearer and held within a cosmic womb. God's relationship to Christ is through Mary, and suddenly God seems less"father " of Mary's divine child than "grandmother." The
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