| BkI:19.III.5 | Your new self is the Christ who lives in you, a self without attributes. Therefore it does not have a proper identity. The self is a blank slate of pure potentiality. Identity is what makes the self unique. This is why God created you both different and equal at the same time. It is what makes you, you. Therefore, when we speak of your Immaculate Conception—and what is really represented in the ceremony of the Immaculate Conception—we speak only of your new identity, given by God in pure love. You are not Christ because of what you do. You are not immaculate as a result of your merit. You are immaculate because you are the daughter or son of Mary. |