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  • The Blessed Virgin Mary in Poetry

    The Virgin by William Wordsworth (b. 1770- d. 1850) Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied. Woman! above all women glorified, Our tainted nature’s solitary boast; Purer than foam on central ocean tost; Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon Before her wane begins on…

  • Vigil of the Immaculate Conception

    Tomorrow is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.* On this vigil day, Catholics stand in the remains of the night as the dawn makes its appearance. This resplendent dawn is that Singular Conception, the Immaculate Conception, who ushers in the Light of Christ. In 1953, on the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Pope…