Ann, the mother of Mary conceived immaculately. This is is common knowledge and is taught by Anglican, ORthodox, Catholic and more traditions.
So how far back does one go?
“Ann, the mother of Mary conceived immaculately. This is is common knowledge and is taught by Anglican, ORthodox, Catholic and more traditions.”
I was raised Episcopalian (Anglican) in a Low Church Evangelical tradition. We were taught no such thing.
But is it taught IN THE BIBLE? I know Catholics don’t believe it, but the Bible IS the authority of the Word of God. If it isn’t in there, it’s impossible to prove any of what you say.
“Ann, the mother of Mary conceived immaculately. This is is common knowledge and is taught by Anglican, ORthodox, Catholic and more traditions.”
From the Catholic Encyclopedia:
“The Blessed Virgin Mary...”
The subject of this immunity from original sin is the person of Mary at the moment of the creation of her soul and its infusion into her body.
“...in the first instance of her conception...”
The term conception does not mean the active or generative conception by her parents. Her body was formed in the womb of the mother, and the father had the usual share in its formation. The question does not concern the immaculateness of the generative activity of her parents. Neither does it concern the passive conception absolutely and simply (conceptio seminis carnis, inchoata), which, according to the order of nature, precedes the infusion of the rational soul. The person is truly conceived when the soul is created and infused into the body. Mary was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin at the first moment of her animation, and sanctifying grace was given to her before sin could have taken effect in her soul.
“...was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin...”
The formal active essence of original sin was not removed from her soul, as it is removed from others by baptism; it was excluded, it never was in her soul. Simultaneously with the exclusion of sin. The state of original sanctity, innocence, and justice, as opposed to original sin, was conferred upon her, by which gift every stain and fault, all depraved emotions, passions, and debilities, essentially pertaining to original sin, were excluded. But she was not made exempt from the temporal penalties of Adam — from sorrow, bodily infirmities, and death.
“...by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race.”