Saturday 17 May 2008

The Holy Spirit is the Uncreated "Immaculate Conception"




In Lourdes, Bernadette asked the Virgin Mary her name and she replied: "I am the Immaculate Conception." By her luminous words, Mary expressed that she was not only conceived immaculately but that she actually was the Immaculate Conception. It is like the difference between something white and whiteness itself, or something perfect and perfection.

(...) The Holy Spirit is the uncreated Immaculate Conception. (...) The third person of the Trinity is not embodied as we all know and our word "spouse" is insufficient to express the relationship between the Immaculate and the Holy Spirit. It can be said that the Immaculate Conception is in a sense "the incarnation of the Holy Spirit."



Saint Maximilian Kolbe

2 comments:

Augustine said...

" It can be said that the Immaculate Conception is in a sense "the incarnation of the Holy Spirit"

That sounds very dangerous... I think its pretty unjustifiable, but I'd love to hear it explained.

John Paul said...

Yeah, well I put it up here for discussion really... Would be great to get some other thoughts.