Wish you all the Feast of Immaculate Conception of Mother Mary. Here are few lines said by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther....
Martin Luther, the father of the reform talks about the Immaculate Conception
Three hundred years before it was declared Dogma, the Protestant reformer Martin Luther said:
"... so that while the soul was being infused, she would at the same time be cleansed from original sin ... And thus, in the very moment in which she began to live, she was without all sin." (Martin Luther's Works, vol 4, pg 694)
"God has formed the soul and body of the Virgin Mary full of the Holy Spirit, so that she is without all sins, " (ibid. vol 52, pg 39)
". . . she is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin. . . . God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. . . . God is with her, meaning that all she did or left undone is divine and the action of God in her. Moreover, God guarded and protected her from all that might be hurtful to her." (Ref: Luther's Works, American edition, vol. 43, p. 40, ed. H. Lehmann, Fortress, 1968)
for further readings please go to the website: http://www.davidmacd.com/catholic/mary_conceived_without_sin_immaculate_conception.htm
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