Today Roman Catholics celebrate the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The immaculate conception, refers not to the birth of Jesus, but to Mary’s birth. Mary is the mother of God; the virgin who gave birth to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Always call out to your Mother!
The Immaculate Conception means that Mary was given a singular grace by God, and that she was born entirely free of sin. The Catechism of the Catholic Church:
491 “Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, “full of grace” through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:
‘The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.’”
And she is not just the Blessed Mother of Catholics and Christians, but the mother of all the world’s people. She is the person that even those individuals who are truly lost, full of sin, rebels to authority of both heaven and earth can call out to.
If you are desperate, your back is to the wall and you don’t know where to turn: call to your mother, and she will come to you! Pray:
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.
Amen.
