falling asleep [dormition] or departure, or better still, arrival. … Your stainless and wholly immaculate body has not been left on earth; the Queen, the Mistress, the Mother of God who has truly given

our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed

Father, in the Holy Spirit, by means of my Son Jesus and through the unceasing intercession of my Immaculate Heart. This world is at the mercy of my Adversary, who is ruling it his spirit of pride and rebellion

the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. This is

entrust themselves to Mary: "May you find wisdom and strength through the intercession of Mary Immaculate, patroness of your country!" He himself entrusted them to the Virgin: "I entrust you all with great

human nature that the Word was to receive being first purified: He needed to find a perfect and immaculate virgin (Homily 52,6) (1). Mary was the end point of a purification process throughout history and

tribute to Mary On December 8, 2018, the feast day of the Immaculate Conception, the Lourdes Shrine hosted the fourth "Floral Tribute to the Immaculate," organized by the Family of Our Lady of Lourdes. Father [...] spiritual daughters to bring a flower wreath to the statue of the Immaculate near the Spanish Steps of Rome on December 8th, solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, on his behalf and that of the sick of Casa Sollievo [...] called to become this flowerbed, to form a new paradise for the world. A "Global Prayer Chain to the Immaculate" took place on the same day, with thousands of people offering prayers to Mary on all continen

moment, Mary’s Immaculate Conception plays a special role. Mary’s Immaculate Conception is a grace for herself, but this grace is entirely subordinated to her Son, who alone is immaculate by nature. Mary’s [...] Mary’s Immaculate Conception is a grace for the Church, who sees its mirrored image in Mary, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, who is without blemish. Mary’s Immaculate Conception is a grace for all the baptized [...] of Grace (France) - Saint Ephrem the Syrian, deacon and doctor Can mud be turned into gold? The Immaculate is, from the moment of her conception, what we all hope to become in the end by grace. From all

ordinary of the city where the shrine is located, explains in a unique way what the Immaculate Conception is: "The Immaculate One is intact. Saint Paul says that we have been created, before the creation of [...] the capital) is one of the largest Marian shrines in the country. Every year the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception coincides with the feast of Our Lady of Miracles in this small town which is also the [...] The Franciscans put in the heart of our people the love of Our Lady, especially Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception." Fides Agency 22/12/2017

Who Are You, My Queen? Who are you, my Queen? Who are you, Immaculate? I cannot understand what it means to be a creature of God. Immaculate ... I turn to you in a humble prayer: Grant me the gift to praise [...] you, Blessed Virgin ... Help me understand and express what God prepared in you and through you. Immaculate, Queen of heaven and earth, I know I am unworthy to approach you, to fall on my knees in front