"I Am The Immaculate Conception"

So she said at Lourdes, and so we believe after years of deliberation, and so we look forward towards the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the Reign of the Sacred Heart:

...She was predestined to be the Mother and Queen in the order of grace from all eternity. From all eternity, before any consideration of sin, God willed both the Incarnation of the Word and the divine maternity of Mary in "one and the same decree." This means that the Immaculate was chosen and created by God as "predestined Mother" and triumphant Queen at the moment of Her Conception. In other words, Her Immaculate Heart triumphs immediately after being conceived in the womb of St. Anne. Behold Her Heart separated from sin, "holy, innocent, without sin, separated from sinners and elevated above the heavens" (cf. Heb. 7:26), which will give human nature to the King of kings; behold Her Heart elevated "above every other created perfection... and this from the first instant of Her conception"(6); behold the Immaculate Heart of Mary which triumphs with every heartbeat.

"But when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman" (Gal. 4:4), namely that Woman who "shall crush" the head of the serpent (Gen. 3:15), who shall appear "clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars" (Rev. 12:1). This Woman, in pronouncing Her Fiat, became the Virgin Mother of God by the power of the Holy Spirit. At that moment Her Immaculate Heart became a Maternal Heart: a Mother's Heart for Jesus and for all those who would be united to Her only Son in the Mystical Body of Christ.(7) For this reason St. Bonaventure exclaims: "The Holy Spirit transformed the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God into a furnace of His love and instrument of His marvelous operation."(8)

The obedience of the Immaculate in Her Fiat indicates a new triumph for Her Heart, the triumph over the disobedience of Eve, the triumph of the coming of Christ the King—the New Adam—the triumph of Her divine and virginal maternity, the triumph of the most profound intimacy between God and humanity in the virginal womb beneath Her Maternal Heart.

One cannot overlook the triumph of Her Heart when She intervened with Her maternal mediation for the spouses at the wedding feast of Cana. In fact, it is precisely Her Heart as "Mother of Jesus" that hastens the hour of the King:

"This first of His signs Jesus worked at Cana of Galilee; and He manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him" (Jn. 2:1, 11)...

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!