The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is Today

So remember to go to Mass!

For those of you who are curious, let us see what the Catholic Encyclopedia has to say on the matter:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07674d.htm

In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Pius IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary “in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin.”

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