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Mary, The Cause of Our Joy! - Advent 2022 - Stone - 12-06-2022
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RE: Mary, The Cause of Our Joy! - Advent 2022 - Stone - 12-06-2022
Letter from Father Hewko
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Advent 2022
Dear Friends of The Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Cause of Our Joy!
The great and sublime dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary pierces through the lies of Evolution, the Pro-choice and the Eugenics crowd like a knife through an inflated balloon. Indeed, God’s words to Satan echo through the centuries, “She shall crush thy head” (Genesis 3:15). And He chose this most beautiful Virgin and tender Maiden to do it!
“Immaculate” literally means “in” which is “not” in Latin, and “maculatus”, that is, “stained.” “Immaculate” literally means “not stained”.
The Immaculate Conception therefore means that before Our Lady was conceived in the womb of Her mother, St. Anne, the Precious Blood of Jesus blocked the transmission of original sin that would have normally passed down through Her father St. Joachim, by the Preventative Redemption. The Precious Blood of Our Lord prevented Her from being conceived in original sin before the matter of conception joined, so that, at the precise moment of Her conception, Mary was miraculously freed from contracting any stain of the sin of Adam. Thus, “...The Most Blessed Virgin Mary, at the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of Almighty God and in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved immune from all stain of original sin” (Definition of the Immaculate Conception, Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX, December 8, 1854).
How fitting then, that the feast of St. Andrew (November 30) and the holy day of obligation of the Immaculate Conception (December 8), both theologically prepare the way for the Infant Christ at Christmas! It was the very apostle, St. Andrew that praised the Immaculate Conception of Mary when he proclaimed, just before he was crucified: “As the first Adam was formed out of the earth before it was cursed by God, so the Second Adam was formed from the virginal flesh never sullied by the malediction of Heaven!” (cf. The Admirable Heart of Mary, by St. John Eudes, p. 202).
The perverse teaching of Calvin and a plethora of contemporary Protestant preachers have consistently attacked this dogma of the Immaculate Conception. But they who claim to adhere so strictly to the literal words of the Bible fail to believe what the Bible really teaches!
To deny the Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Lady is to accuse the infallible Word of eternal Truth of error, Sacred Scripture, which calls Mary the one “dove” without sin or poison, the “all fair” and the “immaculate one” in whom “there is not a spot.” The Scriptures venerate Mary by posing the question: “What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most beautiful among women? What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us? My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands” (Canticle of Canticles 4:7, 5:9,10 & 6:8).
To hold that Mary was not preserved from original sin is to oppose the divine pronouncements of the Holy Ghost, Who guides the great Councils of the Catholic Church, especially of Trent and the Infallible Definition of Pope Pius IX, which declare Mary never incurred the stain of original sin.
Another proof that such deniers prefer private opinion to the very teaching of the Apostles themselves, is taken not only from St. Andrew (as quoted above), but also from both Apostles St. James the Less and St. James the Greater! St. James the Less hails Mary as: “Most holy, immaculate, blessed above all creatures, more honorable than the Cherubim, more glorious than the Seraphim, always blessed and altogether irreproachable! (Liturg. S. Jacobi in Bibliotheca Patrum, tom. 1. & cf. The Admirable Heart of Mary, by St. John Eudes, ibid.).
St. James the Greater’s disciple, St. Thesiphon, who some called the “mouth” of St. James, has left us the doctrine taught by the Apostles themselves, who personally knew Our Lady, “This Virgin, this Mary, this holy one has been preserved from original sin from the first moment of Her conception. Never would the Angel have said to Mary, ‘Ave, gratia plena!’ (‘Hail, full of grace!’) if She had been conceived in original sin” (Cf. Vega, Theol. Mar. Paul. 3, cert. 5, no. 258 & cf. ibid.).
Besides, even before Pope Pius IX, many Popes taught Mary’s exemption from original sin: Popes Alexander IV, Julius II, Leo X, Paul V, and Gregory XV. These holy Popes instituted liturgical feasts and Breviary prayers to honor Her. Some of these Popes even went so far as to forbid under pain of excommunication any opposition to this teaching either by word of mouth or in writing, in public or in private!
Against the many errors of our day, the Immaculate Conception of Mary was reaffirmed in Lourdes, France, when She, Herself, appeared in 1858 to St. Bernadette, saying, “I am the Immaculate Conception!” Truly this dogma refutes the very errors of our age! Against Evolution, reaffirming that a soul is truly infused at the very moment of any man’s conception, that mankind didn’t evolve from some “primordial soup” into squids and monkeys. And against the pro-abortionists, it reaffirms the fact that the complete, living human soul and body are created at conception and fully encoded with all its information in the DNA. All that is packed into a newly conceived child at the instant of his/her conception! What a gift of God! Finally, against the mad-scientists of Eugenics, we are reminded of God’s command to Adam and Eve:
“And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth!” (Genesis 1:28).
Whatever the Virgin Mary touches, colorfully flourishes and grows fruitful! All who approach Her confidently, necessarily increase in virtue, multiply grace in their souls and fill the earth with Her sweetness! Just take a drive in the countryside and see the obvious fact that there is plenty of space for growing families and for many more children, villages, small farms, and towns! God made more than enough room on His earth for billions of more people! Who are these assassins to assume the right to themselves, in the name of “economic sustainability,” to kill off human life, like a field of green grass? Read the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and it will all make sense! Even Henry Ford, the famous car manufacturer, admitted history proves them true!
Don’t fall for the network of lies. Stay grounded in the Truth!
“O Blessed Virgin Mary, I humbly beseech thee, by thy Immaculate Conception and through thy Pure Heart, to take full possession of my heart. Give it completely to thy Divine Son and beg Him to banish from it all sin and to establish in it forever the perfect reign of His Divine Love” (Prayer of St. John Eudes).
In Christ the King,
Fr. David Hewko
RE: Mary, The Cause of Our Joy! - Advent 2022 - Stone - 12-21-2022