It's about our Blessed Mother, the mother of our Lord, Jesus Christ. The doctrine says that she was conceived withoutl sin. She was the product of the natural union between a man and a woman, her parents. However God, who chose her from the beginning, to be the mother of our Lord, preserved her, from the moment of conception, from the stain of original sin, through His divine grace. God personally intervened to prepare her to be the perfect vessel to bring our Saviour, Jesus Christ, into the world. He was conceived through an overshadowing, of Mary, by the Holy Spirit. The Immaculate Conception is a required belief for Catholics, along with the Virgin Birth.
The homily, at the feast day mass of The Immcaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation for Catholics, was about her obedience to God, which is exactly the opposite of Adam and Eve's disobedience. Through her obedience in every aspect to God, she gave us a holy example to follow. She raised the bar for human kind, by a great deal. I left mass with a renewed respect for Mary and for the Catholic faith, with all it's honor to Mary, as the Mother of God, whom Jesus Christ her son was.
While I have always known that the Immaculate Conception refered to Mary's conception and not Jesus' conception, I recently discovered that our Protestant brothers and sisters don't always know that. There was one who tried to refute the Immaculate Conception, who did not know that, as far as I could tell. Had he known, I am convinced he would have probably had even more trouble with it, than he seemed to be having already, as a doctrine.
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