Thus Mary says to us that we are all called to open ourselves to the action of the Holy Spirit to be able to reach our final destination, to be immaculate, fully and definitively free of evil' -- Pope Benedict XVI
The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated by the Church on December 8th. The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary was defined, ex cathedra, by Pope Pius IX in 1854:
- "The Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, and in view of the foreseen merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin."
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