From the Preface on the Immaculate Conception
“For you preserved the Most Blessed Virgin Maryfrom all stain of original sin,so that in her, endowed with the rich fullness of your grace,you might prepare a worthy Mother for your Sonand signify the beginning of the Church,his beautiful Bride without spot or wrinkle. She, the most pure Virgin, was to bring forth a Son,the…
Happy Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception! Hail Our Spotless Lady!
From the Collect (opening prayer) of today’s Mass: “O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of he Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for your Son, grant, we pray, that, as you preserved her from every stain by virtue of the Death of your Son, which you foresaw, so, through her intercession, we, too, may…