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A Catholic Mom in Hawaii (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Starts today November 29th. EWTN's Novena PRAYER TO THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, did prepare a worthy dwelling place for Your Son, we beseech You that, as by the foreseen death of this, Your Son, You did preserve Her from all stain, so too You would permit us, purified through Her intercession, to come unto...
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Catholic Church Conservation (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
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 implore the help of the entire heavenly host as we ardently invoked the Paraclete. Accordingly, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,...
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Credo,Catholic Journal (Ireland) (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
O most Holy Virgin, who was pleasing to the Lord and became His mother, immaculate in body and spirit, in faith and in love, look kindly on me as I implore your powerful intercession. O most Holy Mother, who by your blessed Immaculate Conception, from the first moment of your conception did crush the head of the enemy, receive our prayers as we implore you to present at...
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Real Learning (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Last year, inspired by this post , and this one, and another like them, I resolved to try to make a novena candle for the novena before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. My candle is a plain white pillar...
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Japundit (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Do those bumbling bureaucrats believe in "immaculate conception" or what? Don't they believe in DNA testing? Are they saying that their textbook/manual says "within 300 days of the OFFICIAL DATE of divorce", so the reality shall not diverge?
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The hermeneutic of continuity (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
I must tell you of two forthcoming Masses for children in the Classical Roman Rite. At Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen, at 4.30pm on the feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December) we will have a Low Mass with hymns and some catechesis for children during the Mass. All are welcome, including children of all ages. At the Little Oratory, next to the London Oratoryin Brompton Road,...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... are cooked and ceremoniously eaten. Dec. 8 is L'Immacolata Concezione, the celebration of the Immaculate Conception. Dec. 13 marks La Festa di Santa Lucia, or St. Lucy's Day.Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, is La Vigilia di Natale. The holiday continues through Jan. 6, ending with La Festa dell'Epifania, the Epiphany.What's a holiday without the food? Most Italian holiday sweets include fruit...
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Vultus Christi (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
The Novena in Preparation for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary begins today and continues through December 7th. Tota pulchra es, Maria, et macula non est in te. Tu gloria Jerusalem, tu laetitia Israel,...
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blatherWatch (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... Caution! this is a no-sin zone! Don't forget the locals: Dori (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) will birth (by immaculate conception, presumably) the customary dairy mammal; John and Ken (KOMO m-f,10a-2p) will bicker; and Dave Boze (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) will harrumph his customary harrumph. Of course, the media who make their living trying to get people's blood pressure up, love this -- it's an issue...
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Live From Haiti (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
As I mentioned in the last post, John and I made a presentation on Haiti to the Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception, who live just down the street from us on Heading Avenue. The Carroll family has a long-standing relationship with these wonderful sisters. Fifty-one years ago, my husband John attended the convent's preschool. His teacher was Sister Elaine. And would you...
