Posts Tagged ‘Immaculate Conception Novena’
Immaculate Conception Novena: Ninth Day
In the Year of Our Lord 1846 the bishops of the United States dedicated our land to Mary of the Immaculate Conception. In a brave and splendid gesture they presented to the Queen of Heaven the new republic with its high hopes and uncertainties, [...]
Immaculate Conception Novena: Eighth Day
Life is not easy for a man who aspires to strong virtue. Temptations are much too fascinating. In youth passion plays like a livid flame. In success false loves throw themselves before him. In failure he is prompted to seek forgetfulness in [...]
Immaculate Conception Novena: Seventh Day
He who loves mankind and knows anything at all about history cannot doubt the importance of pure women to the world. Pure women must mother the race. In the days of men's young and fierce temptations pure maidens must be the cool protestations [...]
Immaculate Conception Novena: Sixth Day
"Like Mother, like child," runs the ancient saw. He who accepts the Savior as His Lord and God cannot doubt the perfect sinlessness that was Christ's. It is blasphemy to imagine for a second that Christ could have been in the power of Satan, [...]
Immaculate Conception Novena: Fifth Day
Nothing else had been so holy among the chosen people as had the ark of the law. Within this sacred tabernacle had rested God's promise to his people. Yet within this ark there rested only a few things that God had touched or designed. The [...]
Immaculate Conception Novena: Fourth Day
Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with Thee, blessed art thou among women. The immortal words, spoken prayerfully every day by millions of Catholics in millions of rosaries, were not of human thought. They were spoken by the Archangel Gabriel, who [...]
Immaculate Conception Novena: Third Day
What does this mean, the Immaculate Conception? Through sin Adam and Eve threw away the divine life that we call grace. And since they were the ancestors of all of us, we lost through them the inheritancethat should rightfully be ours. All men, [...]
Immaculate Conception Novena: Second Day
Dark were the days that preceded the birth of the Savior. Sin had thrown over mankind the pall of ignorance and error, despair of God, and distrust of man. Even the chosen people knew that they were waiting in the dark night of their race for the [...]
Immaculate Conception Novena: First Day
Two Eves figure in the history of mankind. The first was called Eve by God himself when he made his first daughter. The second was called Ave, Maria, when God's messenger told her how deeply beloved she was by God and God's Son. The first Eve, [...]
