“”The Virgin Mary and Jesus share the SAME blessing here””
Very good,dear friend.Our Lord shared many things with His Mother
I love what Blessed Pope Leo XIII once wrote in His encyclical on the Rosary...
“Moreover, one must remember that the Blood of Christ shed for our sake and those members in which He offers to His Father the wounds He received, the price of our liberty, are no other than the flesh and blood of the virgin, since the flesh of Jesus is the flesh of Mary, and however much it was exalted in the glory of His resurrection, nevertheless the nature of His flesh derived from Mary remained and still remains the same (de Assumpt. B. V. M., c.v., among the Opera S. Aug).”Pope Leo XIII
Every Catholic needs to read this...
FIDENTEM PIUMQUE ANIMUM
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII
ON THE ROSARY
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_20091896_fidentem-piumque-animum_en.html
I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but I think Pope Leo XIII in 1878-1903 did not have all the facts concerning the makeup of the fetus. To say "the flesh and blood of the virgin, since the flesh of Jesus is the flesh of Mary", shows an ignorance of biology. The egg from the woman's ovary is a distinct cell containing her genetic code (DNA) having 23 chromosomes. The sperm from the father also contains DNA and 23 chromosomes and together they create a distinct individual that never before existed and never will exist again. The baby needs only nourishment and a safe environment (from the mother, of course) to develop to term. He has his own flesh and blood quite different from the mother's and is totally separate in form. They are "hooked up" through the umbilical cord through which the baby receives nutrients and oxygen.
With Jesus, there was no human father sperm to fertilize the ovum and that was the miraculous part, as well, but he still had flesh and blood that was different from Mary's - it was all his own. I don't blame Pope Leo for this, of course, because the scientific understanding of human reproduction and genetics was only in its infancy (no pun intended). But it also brings up the question of the infallibility of the Popes and whether or not they are influenced by the Holy Spirit when they make such statements. I doubt highly that God was not aware of the facts of life.