26 the words: May the Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Conception, be our salvation and our protection! They also have the white habit of Father Stanislaus, radiant with the whiteness of the Resurrection. The Immaculate Conception, therefore, is the Risen Christ dwelling in Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit. This is the mystery of the Virgin Mother’s salvation through the Paschal Christ, whose clothing is so dazzlingly white that no launderer on earth could make it so (cf. Mk 9:3). After all, no one can save themselves or pay God the ransom required for their own soul (cf. Ps 49:8-10). The grace of salvation, which in the life of Mary and every believer signifies hostility towards the Ancient Serpent and his deeds (cf. Gen 3:15), leads to a rebirth through water and the Spirit (cf. Jn 3:5), in order to be molded into the likeness of the Son of God (cf. Rom 8:29). Those who do not seek to justify themselves but embrace the freely given grace of salvation through faith are adorned with glory, similar to the Woman clothed with the sun and the moon beneath her feet (see Rev 12:1). This glory of the Resurrection is the attire of Christ and Mary. Therefore, the Marians are to dress themselves in such a manner as Jesus and His Mother.26 26 Cf. Rule of the Ten Evangelical Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Chapter 10, Marian Press, Stockbridge 2023, p. 66.
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