"Mystical Rose, O Mystical Rose, pray for us.
Your Immaculate Conception means that the fullness of grace in you is incomprehensible to our limited minds. The angel Gabriel said in his greeting that you were the highly favoured one, and thus marked your singularity of perfection among human beings. 'The Lord is with you,' he said. How then could you not have been full of grace? The function of the Holy Spirit was to conceive the Word in your flesh, not to make you immaculate. Your were immaculate already, or, like Jesus Himself, the Holy Spirit could not have come to you in such a way. The Saints receive grace in varying measure, but you alone among humans were full of it. Aside from Jesus you are the most powerful mediator between us and the Father, and aside from the Holy Spirit, the most powerful support in our prayers for grace."
Copyright Jane Mossendew 2002
Tomorrow: Queen conceived without original sin; and 'I sing of a maiden'.
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