by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“‘To celebrate #Mary as Mother of #God and our mother at the beginning of the new year means recalling a certainty that will accompany our days,’ said #PopeFrancis, ‘we are a people with a Mother; we are not orphans.’ … ‘To celebrate the feast of the Holy Mother of God reminds us that we are not interchangeable items of merchandise
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“The Solemnity of the #ImmaculateConception of the #BlessedVirginMary … celebrat[ing] the dogma that #Mary was preserved from original sin from the moment of her conception … Dec. 8 … a holy day of obligation on which #Catholics are required to attend #Mass. In 1846 … the U.S. bishops adopted a decree naming Mary, ‘conceived without sin,’ as patroness of the
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“In the Catholic Church, the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a holy day of obligation. Celebrated annually on Dec. 8, it is also the patronal feast day of the United States. The Immaculate Conception is the belief that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was graced by God in such a way that she was preserved from sin
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“When Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. He said, ‘I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered
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