So one of the things as we celebrate this feast, the feast,

salamonity of our leave of the Immaculate Conception is what is the Immaculate

Conception and what's the purpose of the Immaculate Conception?

I think those are really important because sometimes we can get in our heads

that just like these are just random kind of celebrations, random doctrines we

have about our lady, what is the doctrine?

The doctrine is this, 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.

So we heard in the first reading from Genesis chapter 3, here is Adam and Eve,

they're in the garden, they are sinless, they're even scripture says,

they're children of God, they walk with God, they have an intimate relationship

with God, but at one point what happens is they make a choice and it breaks the world,

they make a choice and it breaks the relationship with God, breaks the relationship with each

other, and it breaks the relationship, even it breaks their own hearts.

So this is the world into which you and I are born, this world in which we have no access

to the Father.

He keeps reaching out to us, but we have no way to restore that relationship, even our

relationships with each other are broken and even in our own hearts, our hearts are broken,

we don't even do what we want to do and we keep doing what we don't want to do.

We find ourselves in this place.

And so what does God do?

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