What is the Immaculate Conception?
Although many non-Catholics (and even some Catholics) believe that this refers to our Lord Jesus being conceived by the Holy Spirit, it actually refers to the conception of Mary. Catholics believe that God intervened in the conception of Mary and created her without the stain of original sin. How else could she be pure enough to give birth to our Lord?
Prayer:
O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, didst prepare a worthy dwelling place for thy Son, we beseech thee that, as by the foreseen death of this, thy Son, thou didst preserve her from all stain, so too thou wouldst permit us, purified through her intercession, to come unto thee. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who livest and reignest with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen.
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