Prayer to the Immaculate Conception

Today is the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Today we honor Our Lady's Immaculate conception! Today is also a Holy day of Obligation in America, be sure to check your diocese to make sure. 

On February Eleventh, Mary said to St. Bernadette "I am the Immaculate Conception." This began a debate if Mary really was immaculately conceived. This ended when Pope Pius IX wrote his encyclical, Ineffabilis Deus, on today's date, Decmber 8th, he wrote:

"We declare, pronounce and define that the doctrine which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the first instant of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace of the Omnipotent God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of mankind, was preserved immaculate from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and therefore should firmly and constantly be believed by all the faithful. "

Here are some quotes on Our Lady of the immaculate Conception

“This Virgin Mother of the Only begotten of God is called Mary, worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, one of the one.” – Origen 

“Thou alone and Thy Mother are in all things fair; there is no flaw in Thee and no stain in Thy Mother.” – St. Ephraim

“Thou alone and Thy Mother are in all things fair; there is no flaw in Thee and no stain in Thy Mother.” – St. Ephraim

Prayer to Our Lady Immaculate

Most holy Virgin, who wast pleasing to the Lord and became His 

Mother, immaculate in body and spirit, in faith and in love, look 

kindly on the wretched who implore thy powerful patronage. The 

wicked serpent, against whom was hurled the first curse, continues 

fiercely to attack and ensnare the unhappy children of Eve. Do 

thou, then, O Blessed Mother, our queen and advocate, who from the 

first instant of thy conception didst crush the head of the enemy, 

receive the prayers which, united with thee in our single heart, 

we implore thee to present at the throne of God, that we may never 

fall into the snares which are laid out for us, and may all arrive 

at the port of salvation; and, in so many dangers, may the Church 

and Christian society sing once again the hymn of deliverance and 

of victory and of peace. Amen.

Ta, Ta for now!