Feast of the Immaculate Conception - Dec. 8th - Holy Day of Obligation
- Divine Mercy Parish
- Nov 23
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Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Monday, December 8th
8:00 am — Mass in English
6:00 pm — Mass in English
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a Holy Day of Obligation in the United States, a day on which we celebrate the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary (the Immaculate Conception has been, since 1846, the Patroness of the United States). Note that it is she, Mary herself, who is the Immaculate Conception; the day does not refer to Mary's conceiving Jesus by the Holy Ghost (that we recall on the Feast of the Annunciation), but to the conception of Mary in the womb of her mother, St. Anne, by Mary's father, St. Joachim. What makes her conception immaculate is not that she was conceived by the Holy Ghost of a virgin, as was Christ Our Lord, but that from the very moment of her conception, she was filled with grace by God, Who knew, in His omniscience, that she would say "yes" to the Angel Gabriel and become the Mother of the Savior.
