What do you know about this important Solemnity, which will be celebrated on Thursday 8th December 2016?
The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin, that twist in our nature that makes our will tend not to follow what it knows to be right. It was this grace that enabled Mary to give a true and considered “Yes” to the request, conveyed by the Angel Gabriel, that she should consent to be the mother of the incarnate God.
The doctrine was almost universally believed over the centuries but was only formally defined as a doctrine of the Church by Pope Pius IX in 1854. Because it is so old, it is one of the Marian doctrines that Islam shares with the Catholic Church, though of course the theological details are very different.
If you can, go to Mass on Thursday and give honour and thanks to our Blessed Mother for her Fiat!, her ‘Yes!’ to God.
For more, see the article in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
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