Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992)
No. 491:
Through the centuries the Church has become ever more
aware that Mary, “full of grace” through God, was redeemed from the
moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate
Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:
The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her
conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by
virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race,
preserved immune from all stain of original sin.
No. 492:
The “splendor of an entirely unique holiness” by which
Mary is “enriched from the first instant of her conception” comes wholly
from Christ: she is “redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the
merits of her Son.” The Father blessed Mary more than any other created
person “in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places” and
chose her “in Christ before the foundation of the world, to be holy and
blameless before him in love.”
No. 493:
The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God
“the All-Holy” (Panagia) and celebrate her as “free from any stain of sin,
as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature.” By
the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life
long.
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