Author Topic: Happy Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception! (Read 3480 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** December 07, 2011, 09:23:23 PM »

Happy Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of Blessed Mary ever-Virgin!

May the patronage and tutelage of the great Mother of God, Blessed Mary ever-Virgin conceived without sin, avail each of us, together with all our families and loved ones, unto the increase of the theological virtues, the infused moral virtues and the gifts of the Holy Ghost, and may this glorious Victress assist us in our battle against the infernal Leviathan -- so that, having cultivated a life of prayer and good works worthy of supernatural grace, we may be found worthy to enter into the celestial precincts of the heavenly Jerusalem, where this same illustrious Virgin reigns as Queen and supreme Arbitress over all that is subject unto her Divine Son.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** December 07, 2011, 09:25:49 PM »

From Cardinal Schuster's The Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum): Historical and Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal, (Vol. III; trans. Arthur Levelis-Marke; New York: Benziger Brothers, 1927), here is a commentary upon the Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #2 on:** December 07, 2011, 09:29:21 PM »

Thanks for posting this, Hobble. Happy Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception to all!

God Bless.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** December 07, 2011, 09:30:34 PM »

The Greek Church also commemorates this great beginning of the Mysteries of our salvation on the 9th of December, as will be seen in these pages taken from the Byzantine Missal for Sundays and Feast Days with Rites of Sacraments, and Various Offices and Prayers published at Birmingham, Alabama, by St. George's R. C. Byzantine Church in 1958, (having been printed at Tournai, Belgium, by Société Saint Jean l' Evangéliste, Desclée & Cie).

For more on the excellencies of the Immaculate Mother of God as extolled by the Byzantines, please consult this thread: http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/The-Acathist-Hymn-Office-of-Praise-of-the-Mother-of-God

Roman Catholic · « **Reply #4 on:** December 07, 2011, 10:32:48 PM »

“IN Conceptione tua, Virgo Maria, immaculata fuisti; ora pro nobis PATREM, cujus FILIUM JESUM de SPIRITU SANCTO conceptum peperisti.”

“IN thy Conception, O Virgin Mary, thou wast immaculate; pray for us to the FATHER, whose SON JESUS CHRIST conceived of the HOLY GHOST thou didst bring forth.”

100 Days, Toties Quoties
Rescripts of the Congregation of Indulgences: Pius VI, November 21, 1793.

“TO thee, O Virgin Mother, who wast never defiled with the slightest stain of original or actual sin, I commend and entrust the purity of my heart.”
100 Days, once a day.
Rescripts of the Congregation of Indulgences: Pius IX, Prop. November 26, 1854.

“O MARY, who didst enter the world free from stain, do thou obtain for me from GOD, that I may pass out of it free from sin.”
100 Days, once a day.
Rescripts of the Congregation of Indulgences: Pius IX, Bfs. March 27, 1863.

“BLESSED be the holy and Immaculate Conception of the most blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of GOD.”
300 Days. Toties Quoties
Rescripts of the Congregation of Indulgences: Leo XIII, Br. September 10, 1878.

“O MARY, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.”