"It was fitting, for His honor and glory, that she, who was the instrument of His bodily presence, should first be a miracle of His grace."

The work from which this reading is taken was published in 1849. The Immaculate Conception was defined solemnly as dogma in 1854. Here Newman evidences the excitement, anticipation, and awe at Mary's Immaculate Conception that was already universally held among the faithful.

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