would like you to say the Rosary every day." On July 1st, she declared: "I am the Most Blessed Mary Immaculate." Many people joined the girls in the following months. Some asked the Virgin questions about [...] Lady asked the faithful to build a chapel on the place of her apparition, with a statue of the Immaculate Conception. She promised to bless a spring at the edge of the forest, and encouraged the people

established) “I am the soul who magnifies the Lord” (I) This was December 8, 2015, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It is a holy day of obligation for Catholics, when attendance at Mass is required, [...] the Americas over the following decade. I looked at the display for a while, thinking about the Immaculate Conception, mulling it over, wanting to understand. I prayed a prayer I’d been praying for months

Lourdes, which was then a provincial town. Soubirous said that the figure identified herself as “the Immaculate Conception” and instructed the girl to dig into the earth and drink the water she found there. [...] come in procession. Many Catholics interpreted the apparitions as confirming the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, which Pope Pius IX in 1854 had declared to be an essential element of Catholic faith

of the Most High.” Mary is the first living Tabernacle, where the Father enclosed His Word. Her Immaculate Heart is the first Monstrance that sheltered Him. Her bosom and Her arms were the first altar and [...] wise men of the earth adored Him. Mary is the first priest who took the Son of God in her pure and Immaculate hands and brought Him to the Temple to offer Him to the Father as a victim for the salvation of [...] the Sacred Eucharistic Liturgy. We pray, work, sacrifice ourselves and trust that “In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph!” Sister Lucia’s letter of September 16, 1970, on the Rosary Fatima 100

of Mary Daily Prayer of Consecration to Our Lady As the Father has chosen you, Mary, to be His immaculate child, the wife of Joseph and the Mother of His beloved Son and of the whole Church in full communion

accepting the perfect forgiveness given to her soul when it was created. She accepted the purity of her Immaculate Conception, not only as a free gift, but as a gift of mercy and a grace of forgiveness—for in all

science." By the mid-fourteenth century, the Blessed Virgin had already told St Bridget about her Immaculate Conception: "The truth is that I was conceived without original sin" (Book VI, ch 4). Our Lady

her, it is beneath her merits, since it is she who has prepared for us from her chaste womb the immaculate flesh that nourishes souls. Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072)

Council. He then scheduled the session between the feasts of the Motherhood of Mary and of the Immaculate Conception. Pope from 1958 to 1963, Saint John XXIII published no less than 501 documents wholly

of Syracuse bring healing In Syracuse (Italy), a married couple hung a plaster bas-relief of the Immaculate Heart of Mary above their bed. Their names were Angelo Lannuso and Antonia Giusto. They were an