I made the best chocolate and peanut butter chip cookies I’ve ever made in the new kitchen in the proverbial Van Down By the Crick just now. The oven is great. Every oven is different, and mine’s a winner. Whew!
Tomorrow morning the liturgical marathon begins! St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin are almost to Bethlehem!
Toe-tapping obligatory.
Over the transom just now. As long as they’re alive, it’s NEVER too late. God works in mysterious ways, and in His time. Never forget the parable of the workers. Those who rolled in at the last hour received the same wage as those who started at daybreak. And Our Lord said, “Or, is it not lawful for Me to do what I will? is thy eye evil, because I AM good?” Remember what we pray all day every day in the Pater Noster: THY will be done. Also, GO TO CONFESSION. —-AB
Ann-
A dear friend and my husband converted in the midst of the lockdowns in 2020. My friend subsequently discovered that her family were lapsed Catholics, something she had never known in the previous 50+ years of her life. Today, her father went to confession for the first time in 60 years. Hallelujah!
Merry Christmas and God bless you, Ann.
T
The Prodigal Son.
(A repost from two years ago. This can never be repeated enough. It is precisely the absolute authority and universal jurisdiction of the Papacy that we need, in FULL manifestation, potency and unapologetically virile exercise. In short, we need a saintly “Pope Pitbull I.” -AB ‘23)
All of the “Fwanciss is deffinetwee Pope, shut up, Stoopid!” talking head contingent are pounding daily the lie that the dogmatic definition of Papal Infallibility was clearly a huge mistake and that, essentially, the Papacy itself is a giant albatross that MUST be reduced to a meaningless figurehead position and nothing more. Further, these poor, poor people now argue that to believe in the words of Jesus Christ in the Gospel:
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. [19] And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
…that to believe these words is to commit the mortal sin of IDOLATRY, which they oh-so-cleverly call “papolatry”. Further, I have seen these Trad Inc grifters and hangers-on declare that the GOSPELS THEMSELVES ARE UNRELIABLE AND THAT THE PETRINE PROMISE RECORDED IN MATTHEW 16 WAS LIKELY A FABRICATION INSERTED BY POWER-HUNGRY MEN – aka St. Peter and St. Matthew working in cahoots, specifically – IN ORDER TO ASSIGN AUTHORITY AND EARTHLY POWER AND JURISDICTION TO PETER AND HIS “SUCCESSORS” WHICH OUR LORD NEVER CONFERRED NOR INTENDED.
Um. Isn’t this lie EXACTLY what the schismatic Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans and Freemasons have been trying to convince the world of all along?
Isn’t it ODD that NOT ONE of these Trad Inc. “thought leaders” EVER countenanced this thought BEFORE they decided to define their entire Christian identity by militantly embracing an Antipope? Isn’t it strange that these people have literally turned themselves completely inside out trying to avoid admitting that maybe – just maybe – they have been wrong about the identity of the Vicar of Christ, which has now become what can only be described as a blind rage of pride which prevents them from ever, ever, ever, even unto eternal damnation, admitting that maybe, perhaps Barnhardt (and others) have seen and understood something clearly visible and obvious that they, with their UNIVERSITY DEGREES (please, be kind, don’t laugh TOO hard, they actually think university degrees in theology mean something today, and most of them have massive outstanding student loans that they can never repay incentivizing this delusion) have not only missed, but have been beaten over the head with it for over ten years now? Odd indeed.
God, being omniscient, knew everything that satan and his mercenary body on earth, the Freemasons, were going to attempt to do. God knew that the luciferian plan was to attack and destroy The Church from WITHIN – because attacking from the outside was clearly a non-starter strategy. The luciferian plot, the entire purpose of the founding of Freemasonry in ARSH 1717, was to usurp the Papacy and install an Antipope who would completely dismantle and destroy The Church Militant FROM WITHIN – FROM THE VATICAN ITSELF, and replace The True Church with a satanic Antichurch without most people even noticing the switch. In fact, most people would be in favor of what they saw, because the Antichurch would abolish the notion of sin and hell, and ratify every depravity, and make MAN the center and object of worship.
So. God, knowing this and loving infinitely His Bride, The Church, moved and worked through an infallible Ecumenical Council to provide a 100% rock-solid means of positively identifying the Freemason’s Antipope when the True Pope was usurped and the luciferian imposter was installed.
If a man who claims to be the Pope starts spewing lies against the faith – like declaring that sodomites and other perverts, adulterers and fornicators can be blessed AS COUPLES DEFINED BY THEIR MORTALLY SINFUL ACTS, like ratifying divorce and “remarriage”, like denying the Divinity of Christ, like saying the Blessed Virgin was “just a normal girl” who wasn’t born a saint, and doubted God at the foot of the Cross, like denying the existence of hell and openly proclaiming the lie of soul annihilation, like declaring proselytism a sin and explicitly condemning The Great Commission, and LIKE ATTEMPTING TO ABROGATE THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS IN THE VENERABLE RITE OF ST. GREGORY THE GREAT, MADE CANONICAL BY POPE ST. PIUS V – when some chucklehead Jesuit moron with a BUNCH of super-close sodomite “friends” who is also in bed with the New World Order Malthusian oligarchy starts spewing this stuff on a near-daily basis… you might want to pause and ask a question or two.
Folks, it is PRECISELY because we have the declaration of Papal Infallibility in Pastor Aeternus that we can today, even as unlettered laynothing harridans (speaking for myself), look at the situation with Antipope Bergoglio and KNOW beyond ANY DOUBT that THAT piece of human detritus, Jorge Bergoglio, AIN’T THE POPE.
Okay. So we got that. The next question is, WHAT HAPPENED? Did anything hinky happen right before this evil apostate luciferian showed up and started calling himself the… Bishop of Rome?
WHY YES! The most completely bizarre thing in the 2000 year history of the papacy occurred DAYS BEFORE. The reigning Pope, who announced upon his election in no uncertain terms that HE WAS UNDER PRESSURE AND ATTACK AND MIGHT LITERALLY FLEE, proffered a substantially erroneous “partial resignation” of just the ministry of the active governance of the Church, while retaining the Petrine Munus, complete with the Papal White, the Papal Style and Name “His Holiness Pope Benedict”, continuing to reside inside the Vatican, and continuing to confirm the brethren, and continuing to give “MY APOSTOLIC BLESSING”.
Without Vatican I and the dogmatic definition in Pastor Aeternus, we might all be sitting here thinking, “Well, this SEEMS wrong, but we can’t know for sure because there is so little guidance on this contingency. Everything that has been written on this possibility has been highly speculative.”
WELP. The Divine Providence in His infinite kindness and incomprehensible love made ABSOLUTELY SURE that we could – ALL OF US – know, and know as a matter of DOGMATIC FAITH, what exactly it is that is going on here. No secret decoder rings needed. Quite the opposite. A dogmatic declaration is the exact opposite of any sort of gnostic secrecy because it makes a given article a make-or-break matter of holding the Catholic Faith.
And isn’t that EXACTLY where we are, right now? There is an Antipope that is openly telling people that they MUST embrace lies as truth, and that they MUST be in union with HIM and HIS HERESY in order to be “in The Church”. Antipope Bergoglio is telling the world that you MUST embrace HIS HERESY and APOSTASY in order to not be a schismatic. This is a clear violation of the Law of Non-contradiction: Antipope Bergoglio claims to be BOTH the standard of Schism in his person, and SIMULTANEOUSLY he is the vector of schism. He claims to be simultaneously a thing AND its ontological opposite.
You can parse Pastor Aeternus as fine as you like, but there is absolutely no way to claim that the Law of Non-contradiction vis-a-vis the Pope and Schism in se is NOT clearly within the domain of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility. NONE.
Finally, I’d like to mention a concept in the same vein as this piece, specifically the simply boundless and infinite love of God for us, but now in the context of TECHNOLOGY. Yes, technology. I know most of us look at the modern world and see the horrors of technology around us, such as the ubiquitousness of pornography, the tracking/Mark of the Beast dynamics now emerging in real time, the destruction of economy and community that springs from economy by Chinese slave labor and Amazon, and of course, the near-total control of the media that satan holds, propagandizing and warping reality in the minds of nearly all men today.
But I’d like to argue the other side. I’d like to postulate that maybe – just maybe – the Holy Ghost inspired men at an absolutely unprecedented pace in all of human history to advance technology for an overarching purpose that trumps all of the temporary negative aspects listed above for a reason.
I postulate that we have the ability to communicate with almost anyone on the planet in real time, the ability to record and disseminate information at the speed of light, precisely so that the Freemasons’ luciferian Antipope – Antipope Bergoglio – COULD NOT HIDE BEHIND THE VATICAN WALLS, could not hide behind the speed of information dissemination being limited to the speed of a horse or a sailing ship.
I think that we have this technology coupled with the dogmatic declaration of Papal Infallibility so that lucifer and his minions would have every bit of their hamfisted plot circling the globe being observed, hashed out and discussed, with every papal document and the whole of Canon Law available in every language, by unlettered lay nothing harridans who carry a baby television around in their pocket which gives them instant, unfettered access to all of it – down to Antipope Bergoglio’s raging tantrums as he eats his lunch, down to his physical assault of a Chinese woman begging for help for the Church in China, down to his ordering a demonic Pachamama talisman to be placed on the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the offertory of the Mass, thus desecrating the Basilica. IT’S ALL RECORDED. EVERYONE CAN SEE IT. Many will see it and ignore it. Pride. Greed. Cowardice. BUT, whoever the Divine Providence wants to see it will see it. And it is the technology that makes that possible, whether one lives in the Center of Rome, or in a Van Down By the River.
Never forget what Our Lord said to satan when satan declared his intent to destroy the Church, as overheard by Pope Leo XIII in ARSH 1884:
GO AHEAD AND TRY.
If you know Who God Is, and you believe it, those words are just about the most edifying possible. I AM Omniscient and Omnipotent, and I am saying to you: go ahead and try, because I will utterly crush and humiliate you, and manifest My Power and My Love. GO AHEAD AND TRY, AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.
The truth of the Bergoglian Antipapacy and the awesomeness of God can be appreciated AS IT IS HAPPENING. It’s not necessary for centuries to pass before anyone can appreciate what is happening RIGHT NOW TO US. What a tragedy that so many people are not only missing out, but being scandalized and even apostatizing, when they should be, in a certain sense, enjoying being able to see and even participate in this Holy War – even if only, for now, through a baby television that you carry in your pocket. Savor these days, friends. Savor these days. And DON’T squander the opportunity that you have been given to know, love and serve God in this world, so that you may be happy with Him forever in the next.
I hope this helps.
Our Lady of Copacabana, slayer of the Pachamama demon, pray for us.
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us, on your Holy Church in terrifyingly visible eclipse, and on the Petrine See, vacant now these 354 days.
For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things. Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves. Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.
Romans 1: 22-32
Use your brains, folks. If buttsecks can receive a “blessing”, then so too can straight vanilla fornication, self abuse, ANYTHING.
This is nothing less than satan’s attempt to completely destroy any notion of “sexual morality” whatsoever. Remember the satanic creed: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
I’m on the road this week, but will have plenty to say in the coming days. For now, if you’re the least bit “shook” by any of this, if you’re confused and thinking that nothing makes sense, let me remind you that I explain EXACTLY what has happened in the following video presentation from early October, in addition to two more videos, plus who-knows-how-many hundred thousand words in essay form, all openly accessible on this website.
Jorge Bergoglio is an Antipope. Pope Benedict XVI never validly resigned. The Petrine See has been vacant for 352 days and counting. Nothing Antipope Bergoglio says or does has anything to do with the Catholic Church or the Papacy. Antipope Bergoglio gives every indication of being the False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist – the ape of John the Baptist.
If you acknowledge the obvious truth of this situation, that Bergoglio is an Antipope, then not only are you NOT scandalized by any of this, it’s actually a positive to see the truth so openly exposed. Good. Let it be shouted from the rooftops. Let everyone see. Let everyone understand.
Visibility, visibility, visibility, folks. The hits just keep on a-comin’.
The current Antipope, the vomitous apostate wretch, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, just announced that when he shuffles off this mortal coil, he wants to be buried NOT out of the Petrine Basilica, but out of Santa Maria Maggiore – St. Mary Major.
BUT, but , but, the Bergoglian cultists will say, “He has such a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary!” To which I reply, “IN WHAT UNIVERSE??” His blasphemies against HER are COUNTLESS! He said that she wasn’t “born a saint, but became one.” He said that she “doubted and called God a liar at the foot of the Cross.” He despises the Rosary, and within months of his usurpation was openly laughing at people who had sent him a spiritual bouquet of Rosaries while talking to a group of religious sisters, saying, “Can you believe this? There are these crazy people who actually COUNT their Rosaries!”
Let me explain this. For those who haven’t been able to make pilgrimage to Rome, this maneuver is CRYSTAL, CRYSTAL clear to everyone who has been to Rome, and to all Romans.
The plaza in front of St. Mary Major is tiny. It only takes maybe three thousand people to fill it. Antipope Bergoglio has seen the EMPTY St. Peter’s Square, which holds 200,000+, for all of his sulphuric eruptions of verbal flatulence over the years, and knows that he is despised by pretty much everyone, ESPECIALLY work-a-day Italians, who have made up the vast majority of huge crowds at St. Peter’s. Folks, I was physically present at Pope Benedict’s “final audience” in St. Peter’s Square on 27 February, ARSH 2013, and when I tell you that we were packed in shoulder-to-shoulder, I’m not exaggerating in the slightest. I HAD to take off my backpack and put it between my feet because there simply wasn’t room to keep it on my back. There were, AT MINIMUM, 200,000 people in St. Peter’s Square that day. Most of them were local Romans, by practical definition.
Today, local Romans wouldn’t urinate on Antipope Bergoglio if he were on fire. The only reason a work-a-day Roman would show up to Antipope Bergoglio’s funeral would be to HECKLE. And rightly so.
Further, Antipope Bergoglio INCENSED the nobility of Europe and the world (such as it is) by the MASSIVE disrespect to Pope Benedict at his funeral in January. EVERYONE agreed that Pope Benedict WAS a sovereign head of state, a monarch, and the fact that he was buried with the level of disrespect that he was infuriated even non-Catholic nobles and aristocrats. Antipope Bergoglio knows that these people will probably not even show up to his send-off.
Finally, and most importantly, Antipope Bergoglio IS NOT THE POPE, and so, this is YET ANOTHER edifying and amazing manifestation of the Divine Providence, making the enemies of Jesus Christ and His Holy Catholic Church TESTIFY THEMSELVES to their own falsity. No, Antipope Bergoglio will most certainly NOT be buried out of St. Peter’s AS IF he were a Pope, because he is not, and never has been.
Ideally, Antipope Bergoglio will be buried in quiet obscurity in Argentina, after he is declared an Antipope and sent packing. Yes, I know this is a long-shot, but it is the IDEAL. And isn’t the history of Christianity and the Church just one spectacular long-shot after another… actually happening, actually coming to pass? Keep fasting and praying. KEEP THE FAITH.
And so let us add YET ANOTHER item to the “Visibility, visibility, visibility” list. NOTHING about this Antipapacy is hidden. No secret knowledge required. As the Gospel from Sunday, and the ferias of this week says, quoting Our Blessed Lord, speaking to the disciples of John the Baptist:
No, Antipope Bergoglio, most certainly shall NOT be buried out of the Petrine Basilica.
Psalm 117: 23
The plaza of St. Mary Major. Relatively tiny. Pray that antipope Bergoglio is removed and banished from Rome before he dies and can stain Our Lady’s basilica.
I just received an email from the son of a longtime reader who just died. She left no burial instructions and her son didn’t know what to do, but he did know from her browser history that she was a devout Traditional Catholic. To his great credit, he emailed me after seeing this website in her browser, asking for advice as to what his mother would have wanted. I informed him that Traditional Catholic teaching (pre 1963) is that voluntary cremation is forbidden, that she should have a funeral Mass with the body present, and then she should be buried in a Catholic cemetery (in Catholic cemeteries the ground is consecrated!) with clergy present for the final blessing at the graveside.
Folks, if you don’t have WRITTEN instructions worked up and left with your family and/or executors, do it. The Antichurch is now pushing cremation and scattering and even keeping ashes in homes, so you cannot assume that the fact that you are Catholic will ensure a proper burial.
Someone dear to me died this past year, and was buried, unembalmed (undertakers will know your state’s burial laws), in a pine box with a muslin lining in a dirt hole – no cement vault. I found the elegant simplicity moving, and it speaks to the belief in the resurrection.
In your charity, please say an Ave for the repose of the soul of CF.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.
Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Fidelium animae, per misericordiam Dei,
requiescant in pace.
~Amen~
Simple pine casket with muslin lining. Dignified and inexpensive.
This really was a fantastic program from start to finish. Dr. Mazza has kindly made it available to all for free. Supernerd has worked up the timestamps below.
“Is The Pope Catholic?” — a conference seeking the Truth about the “Two Popes.” This conference was recorded on Saturday December 9, 2023, and features the following speakers: His Excellency Archbishop Carlo Vigano, Fr. Paul Kramer, Dr. Ed Mazza, Ann Barnhardt, and Elizabeth Yore.
Links:
“On The True and False Pope: The Case Against Bergoglio” by Fr. Paul Kramer — amzn.to/3RexURq
“The Third Secret of Fatima & The Synodal Church: VOL. I Pope Benedict’s Resignation” by Dr. Edmund Mazza — amzn.to/3uUU83l
“Yore children” — www.yorechildren.com
Ann’s Bergoglian Antipapacy homepage
Chapters:
Pope Pius IX issued the Papal Bull “Ineffabilis Deus” on this date in ARSH 1854 in which the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was infallibly defined.
I wonder if Trad, Inc. “Fwanciss is definitely Pope and schism is virtuous!” partisans today believe that Pope Pius IX even had the authority to make such a dogmatic declaration, or if Catholics are bound to believe that the Blessed Virgin was, in fact, conceived without the stain of Original Sin? They have declared war on the Papacy itself (I guess they think the Freemasons have been right all along??) in service to their intransigent error, and have already openly declared that Vatican I was “wrong” in service to their money-and-human-respect driven campaign to refuse to investigate much less acknowledge the obvious truth that Pope Benedict never validly resigned, so it’s a VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE to schism, heresy and total apostasy from there. For what? A few bucks, and a few social invitations? Men without chests, indeed….
Here is the text of the declaration. Only SEVENTY-FOUR words, in English.
We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful.
To confirm this, God sent The Blessed Virgin herself to a tiny village in southern France called Lourdes to appear to an illiterate teenaged peasant girl – at the town garbage dump. Note that the Blessed Virgin did not appear to the theological faculty at Paris, or Leuven or Rome to confirm a nuanced and debated truth about her very existence. No. She appeared to an illiterate teenaged peasant girl who had just recently been reprimanded in her catechism class for not knowing THE THREE PERSONS OF THE TRINITY.
It is shocking to think: how could someone who didn’t even know the Three Persons of the Trinity be deemed worthy to converse with the Mother of God? First, because Bernadette Soubirous was 100% Catholic by virtue of the Sacraments, in which GOD IS THE ACTOR upon the person. But it is clear that Bernadette was deemed worthy because of her CHARITY and her HUMILITY. She went to Mass and Confession and prayed the Rosary and did these things WELL without being able to pass a catechism test because her soul was pure and filled with love of God and of her fellow man, and because she was filled with humility.
It is also one a species of miracle – which the local clergy and bishop eventually realized – that an illiterate peasant girl like Bernadette could report back to the Bishop, per his request, that the Lady said to Bernadette that the Lady was the “Immaculado Councepcioũ”. For an illiterate peasant girl who struggled to name the Three Persons of the Trinity, for her to drop this phrase – and not in French, and not in Latin, but in her own local dialect of the Occitan language, which is itself an interstitial branch between French and Spanish – was basically impossible unless Bernadette was taught the phrase by The Lady herself, exactly as Bernadette said. Bernadette even said that the Lady had her repeat the words multiple times so that she wouldn’t forget, and then Bernadette kept repeating them as she walked back to town to tell the Bishop so that she wouldn’t forget them.
But why does it even matter if the Blessed Virgin was conceived without the stain of Original Sin? Because the Immaculate Conception speaks directly to the Divinity of Our Lord.
This dogma and non-negotiable tenet of Christianity teaches that Mary was, by the grace of God, prevented from carrying the stain of Original Sin from the moment of her conception. To deny this is a deal-breaker. The logical consequences of denying the Immaculate Conception inevitably lead to denying the Incarnation and Divinity of Jesus Christ Himself. When the Blessed Virgin appeared to Bernadette and told her in no uncertain terms and in St. Bernadette’s local micro-dialect of the Occitan language, “Qué soï era Immaculado Councepcioũ” the Dogmatic Definition of just over three years earlier by Pope Pius IX was underlined by Heaven itself. All that remained was for science to progress sufficiently to confirm this – and that has now happened. More on that in a second.
Mary was saved from Original Sin by her Son, saved by Him like all of the other faithful, it is just that the timing of her salvation was different from everyone else. This is why Mary, sinless though she is, still calls God “my Savior” in her Magnificat in Luke 1:46-55. Instead of letting Mary fall in the mud puddle of Original Sin like the rest of us, God stuck out His Arm back through time from the Cross and kept her from falling in the mud puddle of Original Sin in the first place – but if it weren’t for God’s positive action of reaching out across time from the Cross and holding her from falling, she would have fallen. This is called “grace”, and is what the Angel Gabriel was referring to when he greeted Mary at the Annunciation with the words, “Hail! Full of grace! The LORD is with thee. Blessed art thou among women.” Luke 1:28
Full of grace means FULL. OF. GRACE. How full is full? Full is totally full. To the brim. Full does not mean half-full or mostly-full. Full means full. Mary was FULL OF GRACE.
And because Mary was FULL of grace, as we know directly from the inerrant words of the Gospel of Luke, there was absolutely no room for sin. Mary didn’t sin because God her Savior had filled her with grace and therefore she just COULDN’T sin. Most of us reading this have a tiny taste of what this is like. For example, I’m guessing that everyone reading this would be incapable of killing a baby. We just COULDN’T do it. No matter what threat was made against us, no matter what the adverse consequences to our own lives might be, we would take any adverse consequence before killing a baby. We are simply incapable of performing that act. Why? What is that internal force of energy that prevents us from committing acts of evil even when under intense duress and threat? It is grace. Pure and simple.
Sadly, most of us have a little grace, but are not in any way FULL of grace. I am personally much closer to being full of… detritus than of grace (which many of you have already pointed out to me – thank you very much), hence the daily, persistent, repeated sinning on my part. And I suspect it is a similar situation with you, dear reader, with the grace-to-detritus ratio being much higher for you than for me. I really am quite full of… detritus. With Mary there was no detritus because God her Savior had FILLED her with grace, and thus there was no room for detritus, and thus there was no sin. It’s really just 2nd grade math if you think about it. But WHY? Why was it essential for Mary to be sinless and sinless from the moment of her conception? That’s where the science comes in.
There are two phases to Mary’s existence. The first phase was from the moment of her conception until the Annunciation, which is when Jesus was conceived in her womb by the Holy Ghost. The second phase was from that moment of Jesus’ conception forward for all eternity. Each phase has its own physiological delight attached to it which required Mary to be a sinless vessel for Our Lord.
First, the pre-Annunciation period. As it has been discovered just within the last few decades, all baby girls have all of the eggs that are ever going to be in their ovaries fully formed not just at birth, but fairly early in their fetal development phase. Unlike men who are continuously producing new sperm, a woman’s eggs aren’t created and formed with each menstrual cycle. All that is happening during a cycle is that an egg, which has been fully formed in a woman’s body since she was a pre-born fetus, is released into the reproductive tract. What this means theologically is that the egg containing the 23 chromosomes that God would miraculously fertilize with 23 chromosomes that He miraculously supplied (including a Y chromosome) to become the Word Made Flesh, Jesus Christ, was physically present inside Mary’s body from the time that Mary was inside of her mother’s, St. Anne’s, womb. That egg, and those chromosomes, that physical constituent of Our Blessed Lord was present inside of Mary’s body, waiting to be . . . if I may use the word . . . consecrated. The word consecrate, when broken into its Latin components means:
Con: With
Secr: Holy
Ate: Territory of a Ruler
And so, Mary was, from the time she was inside St. Anne’s womb, already carrying a portion of Our Lord’s physicality, namely 23 of His chromosomes. And thus Mary was, from her very beginning, already a proto-tabernacle, already the Ark of the New Covenant, carrying within her what would be consecrated into The Law Incarnate, The High Priest, and The Bread of Life – just like the Old Ark, except perfected and fully fulfilled as God Incarnate. And as we know from the book of Exodus, the Old Ark had to be “perfect”. And thus, the Ark of the New Covenant was TRULY perfect, except this perfection was a perfection that only God Himself could accomplish: the perfection of Mary, full of grace and thus saved from all sin, including Original Sin.
The second phase is actually broken into two sub-phases. The first sub-phase is when Mary was pregnant with Jesus and His entire body was inside of hers.
The second phase is that phase from the time of Jesus’ birth forward into all eternity. Jesus is STILL, to this day, right now as you are reading this, physically inside of Mary in a unique way. It was discovered just a few short years ago that immune cells pass from a pre-born child to the mother across the placenta. Not only do these immune cells, which are the child’s and thus carry the exclusive and complete DNA of the child, pass across the placenta, but they persist in the mother’s body for the rest of her life. A woman who has carried a son has immune cells with Y-chromosomes in her bloodstream that can now be filtered out of her blood and observed. Female children also pass cells to their mothers.
And so now we see why Mary was and had to be filled with grace and thus saved from the stain of Original Sin from the moment of her conception eternally forward – because she was and is a perpetual Ark of the New Covenant.
This also explains why Mary’s body was assumed into heaven immediately at the end of her earthly life, because her body literally contained living cells of Our Lord and thus her body could not remain on earth in physical death to decay in any way.
Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over Him.
Scientes quod Christus resurgens ex mortuis jam non moritur : mors illi ultra non dominabitur.
-Romans 6: 9
She simply was afforded the same physical resurrection that all of the faithful will receive, albeit immediately for her, given her very special state, both spiritually and physically. This is what is doctrinally referred to as “The Assumption”.
St. Bernadette, pray for us.
Our Lady, conceived Immaculate without the stain of Original Sin, pray for us.
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.
The Immaculate Conception, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ARSH 1768 – 86 years BEFORE the dogmatic definition