04/05/2004: "Quote of the Day"

“It is a sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary's soul was effected without original sin; so that in the very infusion of her soul she was also purified from original sin and adorned with God's gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God; thus from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin”

-Martin Luther, Sermon: "On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God," 1527 (A little something to keep our Protestant brothers and sisters on their toes. Sounds a bit like the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception which wasn't spoken definitively by The Church until the 19th century.)