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The Immaculate Heart
of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Feast day: August 22

Mary began her journey along the way to perfection at a height to which other Saints arrived only at the end of a long life of saintliness. In all other children of Adam original sin prevented the divine generosity from having a free course. But Mary was created immaculate, and therefore the grace of God streamed into her soul without check or hindrance. Her sinlessness, her heavenly purity, directed every action, every movement to God. Her Heart was the pattern and model of all virtues, of all purity! “Blessed are the pure in heart!”

Updated Wednesday, March 12, 2003