By the Papal Bull “ Ineffabillis Deus “ of December 8,1854, Pope Pius IX by the exercise of His Supreme Pontifical power of Infallible teaching pronounced and defined the Immaculate Conception of Mary as;

A doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful that the Blessed Virgin Mary in the first instance of her conception was by a unique grace and privilege of the Almighty God in view of the merits of Jesus Christ as the Savior of the human race ,preserved exempt from all stain of original sin”.

This pronouncement was intended to mean that Mary’s Soul at the first moment of creation and infusion into her body was clothed in sanctifying grace. While everybody child of Adam is stained by original sin and removed only at baptism.

In Mary’s case the stain was not removed, but excluded from her soul. For two hundred and fifty years before this solemn definition the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception had been universally believe in the church and public teaching to the contrary was forbidden. But it was not “ defide”. Many prelates and a great number of Catholic Universities have declared themselves in strong terms in favor of this doctrine. In fact several Popes have already forbidden anyone to impugn or to dispute or write against it. Nevertheless, it was forbidden to rank or write against it among the articles of faith defined by the Church, or to consensure those who privately hold the contrary.

But since Pius IX proclaimed in 1854, all reservation regarding Mary’s Immaculate Conception have ceased to exist. And every catholic is bound to believe by divine faith that this doctrine is true. The very aspect that that each catholic owes to the mother of God and the honor due to her divine son inclines all to believe this privilege most suitable to her state of spotless holiness.

Mary’s immaculate Conception is totally dependent on and related to the Person of Jesus. She was the beginning and the first sign of Christ’s salvation. Just as the dawn derives all its beauty from the radiance of the sun, so does the splendor of Mary’s Immaculate Conception comes from Christ, the source of all holiness. Mary Immaculate is an exemption, not in the sense that she was not saved by Christ, but in the sense that she was saved by Him in the fullest and most perfect manner.

This is indeed a unique privilege, it was granted to her by God in anticipation of the merits of Jesus and in the view of her role as Mother of the Redeemer. Mary is the only cause of preventive redemption. Mary Immaculate is the human being perfectly redeemed. It was appropriate that the mother of the Son of God should enjoy such privilege. God grant it and He did grant it. This we believe, enlightened by the teaching of the Church.