From Balthasar via Fr. Bryce Sibley:
There was a long hesitation before Mary was exempted from the bane of original sin, since people were at pains to preserve her solidarity with the rest of mankind. This hesitation was only overcome when it was realized that her privilege (which is demanded by her mission) only deepens her solidarity with mankind. Sin brings about isolation and thwarts effective solidarity (there was no solidarity among those who shared "in eadem damnatione" in Luke 23:40), whereas innocence makes it possible to be open to suffering with others and to be ready, in love, to embrace such suffering.
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