Immaculate
An irreverent Jesuit many years ago referred to the huge Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Wash DC, where sales were brisk of rosaries, medals, pamphlets, and the like as the “immaculate concession.”
For the reverent or at least less irreverent, the immaculate part is about Mary being conceived without original sin, which means she had a head start on all of us. No even playing field, but she used the advantage to our advantage, hanging in there to the bitter end.
posted by Jim Bowman @ 12/08/2006 07:13:00 AM
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