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Saturday, December 8, 2012

DECEMBER 8 - FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION


DECEMBER 8 - FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION


O Virgin and Queen, Immaculate Mother of God, your magnificence is incomparable. You are more sublime than the heavens, the stars, and the planets; you are more resplendent than the sun.

You, begotten by the tribe of Aaron, are truly a Virgin from whom your Son, Christ our Lord, so wonderfully blossomed.

According to the flesh, you gave birth to God - the Word; He was incarnated in you who preserved the blossom of your virginity before and after the birth of your Son.You have reconciled us to our Creator, O Mary, our Mother.                               (S. Ephrem)

Tota Pulchra
You are all beautiful, O Mary, and there is no original stain in you. You are the glory of Jerusalem. You are the joy of Israel and the honor of our people. You are the advocate of sinners. O Mary, Virgin most prudent and Mother most merciful, pray for us. Intercede for us with the Lord Jesus.
  
Leader: Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God, Your conception
All: Has brought glad tidings to all the world.
Let us pray. O God, Who in the Immaculate Conception of  the Virgin Mary prepared a worthy dwelling place for your Son and, foreseeing His death, preserved Mary from all stain of sin, grant that we too, through her intercession, may walk toward You in holiness and purity of spirit. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
  

O Mary, Virgin most pure and spotless, who came to earth to propose to us anew, in all of its beauty, the ideal of new life in Christ, beckon us.

You show us what we should be, but are not.

Freed from evil before it even touched you, you invite us to the great battle between good and evil in which Christ, by crushing the head of the serpent, won His eternal victory.

This victory can be ours if, obedient to the word of God and hand in hand with you, Mary, we walk on the bright road opened to us by Christ.

Draw us to yourself, Mary, until the day when in joy everlasting we shall be able to contemplate the glorious face of Christ, unveiled forever. Amen.
  

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