{"id":374685,"date":"2020-11-20T11:31:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T10:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.org\/?p=374685"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:09:06","slug":"8th-december-2020-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.org\/en\/8th-december-2020-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception\/","title":{"rendered":"8th December 2020 The Feast of the Immaculate Conception"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Programme of celebrations <\/span>of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception<\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Follow us live on TV Lourdes
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Monday 7th December<\/strong><\/span>
8:00 p.m.: Marian torchlight prayer

Tuesday 8th December<\/span><\/strong>
10 a.m.: International Mass and floral tribute at the Grotto, presided by Mgr. Antoine H\u00e9rouard, apostolic delegate for the Sanctuary of Lourdes
3:30 p.m.: Rosary
4:00 p.m.: Vespers
4.30 p.m.: Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament
6 p.m.: Rosary
8:00 p.m.: Marian torchlight prayer<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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What does \u201cImmaculate Conception\u201d mean?<\/span><\/h2>

According to the Catholic faith, Mary is conceived without original sin. Some twenty years before the proclamation of the dogma by Pope Pius IX in 1854, through Saint Catherine Labour\u00e9, the Virgin Mary had given the Church the prayer, \u201cO Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.\u201d
On 8th December 1854, the Pope proclaimed, \u201cThe Blessed Virgin Mary was, at the first moment of her conception (\u2026) preserved immune from all stain of original sin.\u201d
On this day, members of the Church contemplate, in Mary, the perfect success of humanity as desired by God. This feast day is celebrated on 8th December.
\u201cIn the Gospel of the Annunciation, the Angel’s greeting to Mary resounds: \u201cHail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee<\/em>\u201d, (Luke 1:28). God has always thought of her and wanted her in his inscrutable plan, to be a creature full of grace, that is, full of his love.
Perfectly conforming to God\u2019s plan for her, Mary then becomes the \u201cmost beautiful\u201d, the \u201cmost holy\u201d, but without the slightest shadow of complacency. She is humble. She is a masterpiece, whilst remaining humble, small, poor. In her is reflected the beauty of God, which is all love, grace, the gift of self. (Pope Francis, 8th December 2019)<\/p>

Lourdes and the Immaculate Conception<\/span><\/h2>

After the apparition on 25th March 1858, Bernadette went from the Grotto directly to the presbytery: she wanted to tell the parish priest, Father Marie-Dominique Peyramale, the name that the Lady had given her but which she did not understand. On the way, she repeated the words so as not to forget them. Entering the presbytery, she said in the Bigourdan dialect, \u201cQue soy era Immaculada Councepciou<\/em>\u201d (I am the Immaculate Conception<\/em>). Father Ren\u00e9 Laurentin, historian of Lourdes, recounts the parish priest’s reaction. \u201cThe rock that was Peyramale reeled from the shock, it lost its footing. The weapon of his authority which he bore in the service of good, abandoned him. From the depths of his heart and his chest, a tide rose up and overwhelmed him. What surfaced were the sobs\u2026<\/em>\u201d. It was undoubtedly at this time that the parish priest of Lourdes was convinced that the apparitions of the Virgin to Bernadette were authentic.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Programme of celebrations of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception Follow us live on TV Lourdes Monday 7th December 8:00 p.m.: Marian torchlight prayer Tuesday 8th December 10 a.m.: International Mass and floral tribute at the Grotto, presided by Mgr. … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":374686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-ce-moment-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n8th December 2020 The Feast of the Immaculate Conception<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Immaculate Conception means that Mary, the Mother of God, was preserved from all sin from the first moment of her conception, in her mother's womb. 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