Richard Challoner School

Why do we celebrate the Immaculate Conception today?

"“Who are you?” asked Bernadette.

The Lady raised her eyes to Heaven and joined her hands in prayer.

“I am the Immaculate Conception,” she answered.

Our Lady’s words to St. Bernadette at Lourdes recall a most glorious truth about this Lady. It’s a truth we confess almost every time we address her, since so many titles that we give to Our Lady refer to her sinlessness."

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