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 Israel
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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