According to the Bible, is the Virgin Mary's "Proper Name" Kecharitomene (Full of Grace) & is it tied to her Immaculate Conception & to her Identity?
Biblical scholar M. Miguen, O.F.M., said that "Kecharitomene... replaces the proper name of Mary and becomes a sort of functional name. The biblical custom of renaming persons by giving them a signifying surname" (Mary "The Servant of the Lord," page 93)
The great theologian Fr. William Most explained the biblical background of the Immaculate Conception saying "[full of grace] kecharitomene should mean "Miss Grace", the ultimate in grace. Hence we could reason that fullness of grace implies an Immaculate Conception":
In teaching that Mary was conceived immaculate, the Catholic Church teaches that from the very moment of her conception, the Blessed Virgin Mary was free from all stain of original sin...
... There are two passages in Scripture which point us to this truth. We look first at Genesis 3.15, in which we see the parallel between Mary and Eve of which the early Church Fathers already spoke: "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed: he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." The Jews saw this passage as referring to the struggle between Christ and Satan, and so the Church see in "the woman" a prophetic foreshadowing of the Virgin Mary... This implies an Immaculate conception...
... We can also reason from the text of Lk 1:28, in which the angel calls her "full of grace". If we can validate the translation--we can, and will do so, shortly--then in this verse we can see even more strongly the complete enmity with the serpent--for God's grace is complete opposed to Satan's reign. But if Mary was "full of grace," it seems that she must have been conceived immaculate...
... In Lk 1:28 the archangel hails her as, "full of grace". Most versions today do not use that rendering, but greatly weaken it. Yet it is the correct translation as we can see from the Magisterium (Pius XII, Fulgens Corona, AAS 45, 579, and constant use of the Church) and also from philology.
For the Greek word in the Gospel is [full of grace] kecharitomene. It is a perfect passive participle of the verb charitoo. A perfect passive participle is very strong. In addition, charitoo belongs to a group of verbs ending in omicron omega. They have in common that they mean to put a person or thing into the state indicated by the root. Thus leukos means white, so leukoo means to make white. Then charitoo should mean to put into charis. That word charis can mean either favor or grace. But if we translate by favor, we must keep firmly in mind that favor must not mean merely that God, as it were, sits there and smiles at someone, without giving anything. That would be Pelagian: salvation possible without grace. So for certain, God does give something, and that something is grace, are share in His own life. So charitoo means to put into grace. But then too, kecharitomene is used in place of the name "Mary". - The Catholic Monitor
Immaculate Conception: Pope Francis cancels public act of veneration... - Catholic News Agency
Might Francis be downgrading veneration of the Immaculate Conception of Mary who is the highest ideal after Jesus Christ according to Father Maximilian Koble?
"There must be a battle for the highest ideal."
(Father Maximilian Koble)
Who is that ideal? The Immaculate Conception. Why must there be such a
battle? Because Footnote 351 of Amoris laetitia smears Our Blessed
Mother with the taint of our own sin, as though sanctification cannot or
need not take place. That is why the symbol of the alternate "queen,"
the false deity which the heretics would like to foist upon us in place
of the true Queen of Heaven and earth, is nothing but a bowl of dirt.
By blunting the ideal of Christian perfection, Francis implicitly
denies the Immaculate Conception--as, indeed, he does explicitly in
other ways as well. That is why just about the first thing he did after
seizing the power of the papacy (I take Bishop Rene Gracida's viewpoint
too) was to savage the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, whose
specific charism it is, to reflect the Immaculata and propagate devotion
to her. Here is the very heart of the issue. (The Sacred Heart, so to
speak.)
It is not enough to comment, however incisively, on the latest Francis
outrage. We have to "Aim Higher," making our goal the goal
of the MI itself. ["Aim higher!: Spiritual and Marian reflections of St. Maximilian Kolbe," Paperback - https://www.amazon.com/Aim-higher-Spiritual-reflections-Maximilian/dp/0913382590]
Is the Virgin Mary's identity tied to Immaculate Conception which is tied to her title "Full of Grace"?
The Catholic.com website answered this question as follows:
In
Luke 1:28, the word that the angel uses is kecharitomene. So it’s not
literally “full of grace,” but its root word is the Greek verb “to give
grace” (charitoo).
The word is the past perfect tense, meaning that the action of giving
grace has already occurred. It was not something that was about to
happen to her but something that has already been accomplished. The word
was also used as a title. The angel did not say, “Hail Mary, you
are kecharitomene” but rather, “Hail kecharitomene.” Therefore the word
is not simply an action but an identity. [https://www.catholic.com/qa/full-of-grace-versus-highly-favored]
The great theologian Fr. William Most explained the biblical background of the Immaculate Conception saying "[full of grace] kecharitomene should mean "Miss Grace", the ultimate in grace. Hence we could reason that fullness of grace implies an Immaculate Conception":
In teaching that Mary was conceived immaculate, the Catholic Church teaches that from the very moment of her conception, the Blessed Virgin Mary was free from all stain of original sin...
... There are two passages in Scripture which point us to this truth. We look first at Genesis 3.15, in which we see the parallel between Mary and Eve of which the early Church Fathers already spoke: "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed: he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." The Jews saw this passage as referring to the struggle between Christ and Satan, and so the Church see in "the woman" a prophetic foreshadowing of the Virgin Mary... This implies an Immaculate conception...
... We can also reason from the text of Lk 1:28, in which the angel calls her "full of grace". If we can validate the translation--we can, and will do so, shortly--then in this verse we can see even more strongly the complete enmity with the serpent--for God's grace is complete opposed to Satan's reign. But if Mary was "full of grace," it seems that she must have been conceived immaculate...
... In Lk 1:28 the archangel hails her as, "full of grace". Most versions today do not use that rendering, but greatly weaken it. Yet it is the correct translation as we can see from the Magisterium (Pius XII, Fulgens Corona, AAS 45, 579, and constant use of the Church) and also from philology.
For the Greek word in the Gospel is [full of grace] kecharitomene. It is a perfect passive participle of the verb charitoo. A perfect passive participle is very strong. In addition, charitoo belongs to a group of verbs ending in omicron omega. They have in common that they mean to put a person or thing into the state indicated by the root. Thus leukos means white, so leukoo means to make white. Then charitoo should mean to put into charis. That word charis can mean either favor or grace. But if we translate by favor, we must keep firmly in mind that favor must not mean merely that God, as it were, sits there and smiles at someone, without giving anything. That would be Pelagian: salvation possible without grace. So for certain, God does give something, and that something is grace, are share in His own life. So charitoo means to put into grace. But then too, kecharitomene is used in place of the name "Mary". This is like our English usage in which we say, for example, someone is Mr. Tennis. That means he is the ultimate in tennis.
Overflowing grace: Pius IX, in the document, Ineffabilis Deus, defining the Immaculate Conception in 1854 wrote: "He [God] attended her with such great love, more than all other creatures, that in he alone He took singular pleasure. Wherefore He so wonderfully filled her, more than all angelic spirits and all the Saints, with an abundance of all heavenly gifts taken from the treasury of the divinity, that she, always free from absolutely every stain of sin, and completely beautiful and perfect, presented such a fullness of innocence and holiness that none greater under God can be thought of, and no one but God
can comprehend it." [https://northwestsvdpstl.org/sites/svdpstlnw/files/uploads/documents/marys_immaculate_conception.pdf]
can comprehend it." [https://northwestsvdpstl.org/sites/svdpstlnw/files/uploads/documents/marys_immaculate_conception.pdf]
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis's Amoris Laetitia.