The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, December 8th., 2012

Here are the actual words of the Decree of the Immaculate Conception of the BVM-

“Wherefore, in humility and fasting, we unceasingly offered our private prayers as well as the public prayers of the Church to God the Father, through His Son, that He would deign to direct and strengthen our mind by the power of the Holy Spirit. In like manner did we employ the help of the entire heavenly host as we ardently invoked the Paraclete. Accordingly, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, for the honor of the Holy and undivided Trinity, for the glory and adornment of the Virgin Mother of God, for the exaltation of the Catholic Faith, and for the furtherance of the Catholic religion, by authority of Jesus Christ Our Lord, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own:

WE DECLARE, PRONOUNCE AND DEFINE THAT THE DOCTRINE THAT HOLDS THAT THE MOST BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, IN THE FIRST INSTANCE OF HER CONCEPTION, BY A SINGULAR GRACE AND PRIVILEGE GRANTED BY ALMIGHTY GOD, IN VIEW OF THE MERITS OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SAVIOUR OF THE HUMAN RACE, WAS PRESERVED FREE FROM ALL STAIN OF ORIGINAL SIN, IS A DOCTRINE REVEALED BY GOD AND THEREFORE TO BE BELIEVED FIRMLY AND CONSTANTLY BY ALL THE FAITHFUL.”

Let all the children of the Catholic Church, who are so very dear to us, hear these words of ours. With a still more ardent zeal for piety, religion and love, let them continue to venerate, invoke and pray to the most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, conceived without original sin. Let them fly with utter confidence to this most sweet Mother of mercy and grace in all dangers, difficulties, needs, doubts and fears. Under her guidance, under her patronage, under her kindness and protection, nothing is to be feared; nothing is hopeless. Because, while bearing toward us a true motherly affection, and having in her care the work of our salvation, she is solicitous about the whole human race. And since she has been appointed by God to be the Queen of heaven and earth, and is exalted above all the choirs of angels and saints, and even stands at the right hand of her only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, she presents our petitions in a most efficacious manner. What she asks, she obtains. Her pleas can never be unheard.”

Given at St. Peter’s in Rome, the eighth day of December, 1854, in the eighth year of our pontificate.

Pius IX

My Dear Friends in Christ,

Today is my twenty second anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me. After a time of prayer, I will publish herewith the Secret Of Our Lady of Fatima, that came into my hands decades ago, and which I have guarded until now. By the end of this day it will be posted. May the words of the Mother of God edify us all toward action in the cause of justice and truth in kindness. I send my priestly blessing to all+

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