[Mad Dawg]

This is why Mary is an eschatological figure, um, modo proleptico, um, so to speak. I mean that in Her assumption she "currently" enjoys what is promised to all the saints, and in her immaculacy she then enjoyed what is promised to all of us. As our Lord is THE archetype of God the redeemer, Our Lady is the archetype of redeemed humanity. The future 'end' breaks into the present 'now' in her. Or so it seems to me.

[Jvette]

LOL, I had to look up modo proleptico and am still not sure what it means. But, I do understand the premise of your post and think it is an apt way to explain Mary. I have said often that in her, we see the promises of Christ to us all fulfilled.