Wonderful Feast today...Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!


She will crush the head of satan.

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Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou – I am the Immaculate Conception

These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, which she spoke in the local French patois, when the young saint asked the ‘beautiful lady’ who she was. Bernadette had no idea what they meant, and had to memorize them as she ran to the parish priest to let him know. This was in 1858, four years after Pope Blessed Pius IX had proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, with the bull Ineffabilis Deus, on this day, December 8th, 1854, of which Bernadette had never heard. Blessed Pius IX had defined that the Mother of God was preserved from all stain (macula) of original sin, by the merits of Christ which God saw (praevisa) beforehand...

https://catholicinsight.com/2025/12/08/i-am-the-immaculate-conception/