Immaculate Conception 2016
Our Lady was conceived without Original Sin, which every human being contracts because of Adam’s sin. Our own country is dedicated to Her under this title of the Immaculate Conception. Our Lady at Lourdes identified herself to St. Bernadette Soubirous by saying: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” In the epistle from today’s Mass taken from the book of Proverbs we see the excellence of Wisdom applied to Our Lady in the words: “The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His ways, before He made anything, from the beginning, I was set up from eternity.” And, it is She who will crush the Head of the Serpent and those who find Her “shall find life,and shall have salvation from the Lord.”  So, we have a special opportunity to flee to Our Mother as the patroness of our Country and the One that will crush the Head of the Serpent.
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