hey happy feast of the immaculate
conception if you happen to be watching
this on december 8th i think that's when
we're probably going to drop
drop
try to do
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that hi my name's father mike schmitz
and this is ascension presents the feast
of the immaculate conception i made a
video about this a couple years ago and
i sang in it and played the guitar in it
and sang mary did you know i don't know
if you remember that i'm not gonna sing
but to recap every marian doctrine is
actually about jesus so that's very
important to understand right off the
bat but the marian doctrine of the
doctrine of the immaculate conception
states that mary from the first moment
of her conception was preserved from all
state of original sin by the merits of
her son's future life death and
resurrection i say that again people
just rewinded it's that mary from the
first moment of her conception was
preserved from all state of original sin
by the merits of her son's future life
death and resurrection and so basically
what that means is yes here's jesus who
um has saved all of us and whether we
accept that redemption or not is a whole
other story so after we had gotten
original sins this wound this separation
of humanity from divinity
the lord jesus healed us he saved us he
brought us back from the dead well the
doctrine of the immaculate conception is
that before mary was even at the moment
of her conception before she ever
experienced that separation from god
that because of the merits of her son's
future life death and resurrection she
was preserved from all that that she
actually was conceived and was re lived
in union with god not on her own but
through the merits of her son's future
life death and resurrection now no
that's what we established before what i
wanted to share today is the next step
and i'll also share this at on the
virtual front view if you already kind
of tuned in and streamed that you might
have already heard this but i wanted to
share it on this essential presence
platform because i think it's really
important because a lot of times we hear
the story and we hear the doctrine and
we think wait a second wait a second so
jesus
preserved mary from all state of
original sin he can do that i didn't
know he could do that
if god can do that then um uh i
volunteer can i have that too how come
he doesn't do it for me
like how come he didn't do it for the
rest of us if god can actually preserve
mary from all state of original sin at
the moment of her conception so that she
didn't live life with the results of the
fall
why wouldn't he just do that with
everybody that's a really good question
and the answer is tied into mary's role
it's tied into the call that god had
placed on mary's heart uh not calling
place on her heart but put on her life
so let's go back to the beginning why is
it really fitting that mary would be
preserved from all state of original sin
well it's fitting because at the very
beginning of the story in genesis
chapter 2 god made them male and female
and both the man and the woman adam and
eve they were without sin
and what happens in genesis 3 there's an
angel of light aka lucifer light bearer
right who comes to the woman speaks
words of deception to her that causes
her to disbelieve and disobey
and she then hands on that disobedience
and disbelief to the man who then hands
it on to the world that's the fall team
then in the new testament in luke's
gospel you have this woman and to her an
angel of light comes and he speaks words
to her that causes her to trust and to
believe she conceives in a room then and
that's mary by the way and she hands on
that trust and belief obedience to her
son who conceived in her womb and he
hands on because he trusts all the way
to the end he hands on redemption
to the whole human race
so the fall team and the redeemed team
you have the fall team
angel
to the woman to the man to all of us
redeem team angel to the woman to the
man to all of us
so it's fitting that if the woman and
the man in the first story in genesis 2
and 3 are without sin
and in the second story the redeemed
team the man is without sin it would
make sense it just again it's not
necessary the church says it's not
necessary but it's fitting that the
woman also would be without sin
okay and this is why
in answer to the question well if god
can do that with mary why didn't he do
that with me
and it comes to the heart of
vocation
it comes to the heart of the call of god
god always equips us for the tasks that
he's called us to
god always gives us what we need in
order to accomplish the task that he's
calling us to
and so for mary's task then was to do
what her task was to be the new eve
right if jesus is the new adam her task
was to be the new eve was to say yes
where the old eve said no was to trust
where the old eve disbelieved was to
obey or the old eve disobeyed
and to hand that on to her son again is
it necessary no but it is fitting that
that's the case and in order for that to
be accomplished in its fullness you have
her
preserved from all state of original sin
so that she could say yes in complete
freedom just like eve said no in
complete freedom does that make sense
and what what that means for us of
course is that you can trust the lord
that whatever he's called you to
he will equip you for whatever god has
called you to he will equip you for
if he's called you to do something he
will give you everything that you need
in order to accomplish that task
that's the trust that's the confidence
that we have we say god why didn't god
do that for me well because that wasn't
your job that wasn't your role but your
role is something different and i'll
tell you this i promise you this
whatever that role is
whatever that call is whatever that task
is whatever that vocation is god will
give you
absolutely everything that you need to
accomplish it to his glory and for the
salvation of the world
because
just like he trusted mary
he trusts you
so
let him give you the gifts that you need
let him call you to the task that he's
calling you to
and then do what mary did
say yes
from all of us citizenship presents
happy feast of the mecca conception and
god bless
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