Feast of the Immaculate Conception BVM

Some thoughts on Mary's Immaculate Conception.
I hope she doesn't mind me comparing her to a fashion model.
But the beauty and attractiveness of Mary as a model is her littleness and closeness to us.
God bless,
Fr Raymond

GOD-Armani
Feast of the Immaculate Conception BVM
Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception is, one of her great privileges of grace. But these great privileges are not meant to separate her from us. They are as much ours as hers in that they are meant to inspire and entice us upwards and onwards to take hold of them, each of us in his own measure.

In this, God is like a great fashion designer, Armani, for instance, designing a beautiful wedding dress for a bride. And here we must remember that God calls each soul his Bride. And what young bride wouldn’t be drawn to a wedding dress designed by Armani? If only she could afford it!

Yes, Mary’s Immaculate Designer Wedding Dress is a priceless Armani indeed, fashioned in the heavenly Milan emporium. Whereas our garments of grace are of the heavenly Marks and Spencers variety, off the peg, as it were. But just like every good and successful designer God takes his original masterpiece of design and makes copies of it for the general market. They are not quite, of course, of such exquisite material or finish, but nevertheless they are the genuine God-Armani article and each one is cut to measure and, what is best, each one is priced at only what the wearer can afford.

In other words, when we consider Mary’s Immaculate soul we can be sure in faith that one day, if we are faithful, we too, no matter how sinful our past, can stand before God as a ravishing bride without spot or stain or wrinkle; utterly beautiful and pleasing and desirable to him who has called us all his brides.

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