Ave Maria!
“To St. Bernadette, who more than once at Lourdes had questioned Her, the Immaculate Virgin responded, ‘I am the Immaculate Conception‘. With these words She clearly affirmed to be not only ‘conceived without sin‘, but rather the very ‘Immaculate Conception‘; just as a white object is one thing and its whiteness is another, and a perfect object is one thing while its perfection is another.” (SK #1224)
