The Dogma of Immaculate Conception

The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception as one of the Feast celebrate of the Catholic specially who devotee to the Blessed Virgin.

The dogma of the Immaculate Conception was solemnly declared by Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854 with the Bull Ineffabilis Deus. It state: “We firmly believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary in the first instant of her conception was, by unique grace and privelege of Almighty God in view of the merits of Jesus Christ the Savior of human race, preserved exempt from all stain of original sin”. We celebrate the Immaculate conception on December 8, exactly nine months before the Nativity of Mary (September 8).

The incompatibility between the Blessed Virgin and Satan, which was anticipated in the book of Genesis- “I will put enmity between you and woman” (Genesis 3:15) – was confirmed by the Archangel Gabriel at the Annunciation: “Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28).

Since the Middle Ages, the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin was at the center of a theological debate, which was closed by Pius IX in 1854, when he declared that the universal redemption of Jesus was anticipated for Mary at the moment of her conception in view of her divine motherhood. The dogmatic definition received a heavenly endorsement during the apparitions at Lourdes in 1858. When Bernadette asked her name, the Blessed Virgin replied: “ I am the Immaculate Conception”