Ave Maria!
“The Immaculate in and of Herself is nothing, as are all creatures, but by the work of God She is the most perfect of all creatures. She is the most perfect likeness of the Divine Being in a purely human creature. She has origin, therefore, from the Father through the Son and the Holy Spirit, in as much as He is Creator who from nothing, in His own image, in the image of the Most Holy Trinity, calls finite beings into existence, for the love of the finite likenesses of Himself that they reproduce.” (SK #1320)
