Thought for the Day – 8 December – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971)
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
“Let us read the first chapter of St Luke’s Gospel in order to try and understand, as far as possible, the Immaculate Conception and the sublime holiness of Mary.
“The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David and the virgin’s name was Mary. And when the angel had come to her, he said, ‘Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women’” (Lk 1:26-28).
The Blessed Virgin was troubled when she heard these words but the Angel reassured her.
He told her that she had found favour with God and added, that she would become the Mother of God, for the Word would become flesh in her womb through the power of the Holy Spirit, in such a manner that in her nature, the privileges of virginity and of the divine motherhood, would be miraculously united.
Mary then gave her assent to the will of God and, her ‘fiat’ placed her on a pedestal, high above all the generations of humanity and all the choirs of the angelic kingdom.
It is on this passage of the Gospel, that the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, chiefly depends.
She was full of grace and the supremely beloved of God.
How then could she have been subject to the rule of sin which we inherited from Adam?
If her soul had been stained with sin at the first moment of her conception, she would not have enjoyed the special favour of God and the plenitude of grace.
She was, moreover, predestined to become the Mother of God.
Was it possible that the divine Word, Who was to become her Son, could have permitted her soul to have been sullied, even for a single instant, by sin, which deprives us of grace and makes us enemies of God?
It was on good grounds, therefore, that the Church defined, that from the first moment of her conception, Mary was free from all taint of sin, by a singular privilege conferred on her by God and through the merits of her divine Son, Jesus Christ.”
Antonio Cardinal Bacci
AnaStpaul 
And, it only took 1,854 years to make it official. Of course, those blessed early church fathers knew but there are still so many today that just don’t get it No way should anyone set any limits on one who is limitless.
Now the Trump haters have their President and he appoints as the boss of HHS the the most extreme hater of the pro-life movement and the Church in general. We elected an anti-Christ and now we face the anti-Church all while we are in the troughs of WWIII.
I weep as Jeremiah. God have pity on my grand-children and their children, if any survive.
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The Church and the world are in a sorry state. END TIMES Hughie – I believe the Anti-christ is here now. In that case, possibly the Lord will save your grandchildren soon.
Your President is not final yet Hughie. Remember Bush and Al Gore! It could still all change.
Keep praying.
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It will take an outstanding miracle to change the election results! Prayer is the only weapon we have. Get those Rosaries in action!
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Definitely!
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