J.M.J. "If then God has such a horror of sin as to have
willed to keep free the future Mother of His Son not only from stains
which are voluntarily contracted but, by a special favor and in
prevision of the merits of Jesus Christ, from that other stain of which
the sad sign is transmitted to all us sons of Adam by a sort of hapless
heritage: who can doubt that it is a duty for everyone who seeks by his
homage to gain the Heart of Mary to correct his vicious and depraved
habits and to subdue the passions which incite him to evil?"
--Saint Pius X, Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum (February 2, 1904), 19.
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