Replies

You can read an explanation right here.

QUOTE:

When discussing the Immaculate Conception, an implicit reference may be found in the angel’s greeting to Mary. The angel Gabriel said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" (Luke 1:28). The phrase "full of grace" is a translation of the Greek word kecharitomene. It therefore expresses a characteristic quality of Mary.

The traditional translation, "full of grace," is better than the one found in many recent versions of the New Testament, which give something along the lines of "highly favored daughter." Mary was indeed a highly favored daughter of God, but the Greek implies more than that (and it never mentions the word for "daughter"). The grace given to Mary is at once permanent and of a unique kind.Kecharitomene is a perfect passive participle of charitoo, meaning "to fill or endow with grace." Since this term is in the perfect tense, it indicates that Mary was graced in the past but with continuing effects in the present. So, the grace Mary enjoyed was not a result of the angel’s visit. In fact, Catholics hold, it extended over the whole of her life, from conception onward. She was in a state of sanctifying grace from the first moment of her existence.

What utter nonsense and injecting meaning that isn't there. No where in the word Kecharitomene can the word "filled" or "full" be extracted or inferred. The Holy Spirit did describe only two people to have been "full" of grace and they were Jesus and Stephen. If He had meant to infer that Mary was "full of grace" He would have used the same descriptive language and words as He did for Jesus and Stephen.

Nor was the grace given to Mary of a "of a unique kind" as we are "freely given" that grace as well.

Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

The construct that Mary was "full of grace" or special in any way regarding grace is a construct totally made up by the Catholic Church and is false.