3. Mary maintains her immaculate status (willed by God)
and never took on original sin via the Eucharist.
The Holy Spirit is the will of the Father and the Son, but heavily weighted to what they will the most: mercy, communion, spiritual advancement. Virgin Mary is literally the 175
mother of Jesus Christ, and all who make union with Christ.
What better advocate can we have, A God who desires our sanctification and a divine mother who asks us, to ask her for every grace. We need only place these graces in our soul.
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Finally, an ancient story of virtue and perfection. The desert monk Paphnitius excelled in the life of the spirit and thought to himself, “Which of the saints am I like?.” Christ answered him, telling him to seek out four specific others, and to know that they were his equal in holiness. Paphnitius first encountered a thief turned beggar/singer. The beggar revealed that as a thief he had saved a virgin from defilement, and later given his own profits for the release of strangers from debtor’s prison.
Paphnitius next encountered a rich merchant who made
many acts of charity and piety.
Paphnitius was then sent to a wealthy village leader, who
revealed, “It is now thirty years since a bond of continence was agreed between me and my wife and no man knows of it. I
have had by her three sons; for them only have I known my wife, nor have I known any other but her, nor herself now at all.”
“I have never ceased to entertain strangers and in such fashion that I let no one go to meet the coming guest before myself. I have never sent a guest from my house without provision for his journey. I have despised no man that was poor, but have supplied him with the things he needed. If I sat in judgment, I have not respected the person of my own son, in detriment of justice. The fruit of another man’s toil has never come into my house unjustly.”
“If I saw a quarrel, I have never passed by until I brought those who were at odds to peace. No one ever caught my servants in a fault. Never have my herds injured another man’s crops. Never did I forbid any man to sow in my fields, nor did I 176
choose the richer field for myself, and leave the more barren to another. As such as in me lay, I never suffered the stronger to oppress the weak. Early in my life I sought that no one should be sad because of me. If I were judge in a suit, I condemned no one, but sought to bring the dissidents to peace. And this, as God gave it, has been my way of living until now.”
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