The Most Perfect Gift | #1602

Pilgrim Priest · Dec 9, 2025 · 7m

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary • Which Catholic teaching is the most difficult to accept? It's not the Immaculate Conception, the Incarnation, or Transubstantiation. Most people seem to have a really hard time with the idea that every child is a gift from God.

Thanks to original sin, every child is perfect and precious and also rather annoying. And we make things worse when we make our own sinful choices.

So when God wanted to send the most perfect gift, he made Mary not only precious and beautiful and loved, but also without original sin. Mary could spend…