“Show Yourself Mother of All” 
Vatican City, DEC. 8, 2006 – Here is a translation of Benedict XVI’s meditation today, solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, during the homage he rendered the Virgin in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna.
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Mary, Virgin Immaculate:
This year we again gather with filial love at the foot of your image to renew [...]

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (17 B.C)
This is the mystery of Mary to which our whole country, the United States of America, was dedicated at the Sixth Provincial Council of Baltimore in 1846. The meaning of this mystery is that from the instant of her conception in the womb of Anna, her [...]

 
December 8, 2006 Feast of the Immaculate Conception
“For the Relatives and Friends of the Memory of Doctor Don Gabriel Garcia Moreno”: 
On discovering the body of Gabriel Garcia Moreno, on April 15, 1975, an old hand written document was found in a vial inside Garcia Moreno’s casket.  This letter documenting the reason why Garcia Moreno’s [...]