Day 71: Mary’s Virginity
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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The Virginal Conception of Jesus
Gospel accounts understand the virginal conception of Jesus as a divine work that surpasses all human understanding and possibility. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit, said the angel to Joseph about Mary his fiance. The church sees here, the fulfillment of the divine promise given to the prophet Isaiah: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son. Christ's birth did not diminish his mother's virginal integrity, but sanctified it.
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