The following is taken from Chapter 1 of Fr. John Peter Pinamonti, SJ's "Seven Considerations of the Interior Perfections of Mary." Fr. Pinamonti here considers the "negative sanctity" of Mary; that is, her purity:
"[I]n negative sanctity or purity, the Blessed Virgin is beautiful, and chosen as the sun. Inasmuch as she was preserved from every sin, she was the exact likeness of her Divine Child in innocence. She had, even as He had, an entire freedom from every stain, though in a different way and for a different reason. This verifies the prophecy of Isaias that, in the Church's firmament, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun."
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
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