I follow your work and greatly appreciate it, but the idea that both Our Blessed Lord and Our Lady were somehow saddled with the wounds of Original Sin does not make sense. Any further explanation of your meaning and understanding is appreciated. Godspeed.
By all means I shall elaborate. (And trust me, I have had many, many lively discussions with priests on this topic, especially an SSPX priest!)
Before Adam fell, if you know your faith well, he had what my mother used to call the "Four I's" two of them being Impassibility and Integrity. The gift of Integrity meant that they more or less had the "vision of God" (not the Beatific Vision) at all times and were not swayed by the least movement of the flesh to desire anything, including each other, inordinately. (This was also true of all creation. The term the Fathers of the Church use is "The Virgin Earth".) In the world of Adam before the Fall there was no corruption, no death, no decay, and none of what St Thomas Aquinas calls "the vegetative processes". (Personally I think that both Adam and any "carnivorous animal"- if there was such a thing- could nourish themselves just by looking at the fruits and contemplating them. They did not have to go through the earthy process of Masticating and digestion.) The gift of Impassibility did not only mean that they could go through walls and closed doors as Our Lord did after His resurrection, but that they were impervious to wind, cold, heat, and wetness. They could travel naked through a monsoon as though they were in a most secure armored vehicle.
Our Lord certainly did not have the gift of integrity. After He fasted in the desert he was hungry, and was tempted to "turn stones into bread" as you probably know from the Gospel accounts.
Now, of course, we know Our Lord had perfect chastity and continence, and this was of His own accord. And, by His example, we know the same is possible for us by practicing custody of the eyes and custody of the heart. He showed us that "Sin is like a Lion roaring and ravening, but you can be its master." So neither Our Lord nor Our Lady was saddled with "movements of the flesh" or had that sensual dreams that afflict the vast majority of us. And this by special graces coupled with their own efforts which deserved those graces.
Needless to say Our Lord also did not have the gift of impassibility, otherwise He never could have suffered the physical tortures of His Passion. (Tradition has it that Our Lady suffered all those pains inwardly. Her experience of the Passion was certainly not "painless", as some have said.)
Another of the "Four I's" is Infused Knowledge. Adam and Eve already had the wisdom about their state and were impervious to one of the chief wounds of original sin, which St John calls "The Pride of Life". That Our Lord lacked this is evident in the last two of Satan's temptations after his epic fast, when Satan tempted Our Lord to make a display of Himself by jumping off a high place on the Temple, having the Angels bear Him up and instantly winning the acclaim of at least dozens of people at so public a spectacle, and by showing Him all the Kingdoms of the World from a very high mountain, and offering all to Him so he might be King of the World. This is also evident when Our Lord rebuked the Herodians: "Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?".
I follow your work and greatly appreciate it, but the idea that both Our Blessed Lord and Our Lady were somehow saddled with the wounds of Original Sin does not make sense. Any further explanation of your meaning and understanding is appreciated. Godspeed.
By all means I shall elaborate. (And trust me, I have had many, many lively discussions with priests on this topic, especially an SSPX priest!)
Before Adam fell, if you know your faith well, he had what my mother used to call the "Four I's" two of them being Impassibility and Integrity. The gift of Integrity meant that they more or less had the "vision of God" (not the Beatific Vision) at all times and were not swayed by the least movement of the flesh to desire anything, including each other, inordinately. (This was also true of all creation. The term the Fathers of the Church use is "The Virgin Earth".) In the world of Adam before the Fall there was no corruption, no death, no decay, and none of what St Thomas Aquinas calls "the vegetative processes". (Personally I think that both Adam and any "carnivorous animal"- if there was such a thing- could nourish themselves just by looking at the fruits and contemplating them. They did not have to go through the earthy process of Masticating and digestion.) The gift of Impassibility did not only mean that they could go through walls and closed doors as Our Lord did after His resurrection, but that they were impervious to wind, cold, heat, and wetness. They could travel naked through a monsoon as though they were in a most secure armored vehicle.
Our Lord certainly did not have the gift of integrity. After He fasted in the desert he was hungry, and was tempted to "turn stones into bread" as you probably know from the Gospel accounts.
Now, of course, we know Our Lord had perfect chastity and continence, and this was of His own accord. And, by His example, we know the same is possible for us by practicing custody of the eyes and custody of the heart. He showed us that "Sin is like a Lion roaring and ravening, but you can be its master." So neither Our Lord nor Our Lady was saddled with "movements of the flesh" or had that sensual dreams that afflict the vast majority of us. And this by special graces coupled with their own efforts which deserved those graces.
Needless to say Our Lord also did not have the gift of impassibility, otherwise He never could have suffered the physical tortures of His Passion. (Tradition has it that Our Lady suffered all those pains inwardly. Her experience of the Passion was certainly not "painless", as some have said.)
Another of the "Four I's" is Infused Knowledge. Adam and Eve already had the wisdom about their state and were impervious to one of the chief wounds of original sin, which St John calls "The Pride of Life". That Our Lord lacked this is evident in the last two of Satan's temptations after his epic fast, when Satan tempted Our Lord to make a display of Himself by jumping off a high place on the Temple, having the Angels bear Him up and instantly winning the acclaim of at least dozens of people at so public a spectacle, and by showing Him all the Kingdoms of the World from a very high mountain, and offering all to Him so he might be King of the World. This is also evident when Our Lord rebuked the Herodians: "Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?".
I hope this helps.
In the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary.