“Gaudens Gaudébo In Domino, Et Exultábit Ánima Mea In Deo Meo”. “I Will Greatly Rejoice In The Lord, And My Soul Shall Be Joyful In My God”.

“I Am The Immaculate Conception”.

“Ego Sum Immaculata Conceptio”.

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“Gaudens Gaudébo In Domino,

Et Exultábit Ánima  Mea In Deo Meo”.

“I Will Greatly Rejoice In The Lord,

And My Soul Shall Be Joyful In My God”.

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.

By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

   Volume 1.

   Advent.

      8 December.

      The Immaculate Conception of The Most Blessed Virgin.

At length, on the distant horizon, rises, with a soft and radiant light, the aurora of the Sun which has been so long desired.

The happy Mother of the Messias was to be born before the Messias, Himself; and this is the day of the Conception of Mary.

The Earth already possesses a first pledge of the Divine Mercy; The Son of Man is near at hand. Two true Israelites, Joachim and Anne, noble branches of the family of David, find their union, after a long barren-ness, made fruitful by the Divine Omnipotence.

Glory be to God, Who has been mindful of His promises, and Who deigns to announce, from the high Heavens, the end of the deluge of iniquity, by sending upon the Earth the sweet White Dove that bears the tidings of Peace !

The Feast of The Blessed Virgin’s Immaculate Conception is the most Solemn of all those which The Church Celebrates during the holy time of Advent; and if the first part of the Cycle had to offer us the Commemoration of some one of the Mysteries of Mary, there was none whose object could better harmonise with the spirit of The Church in this Mystic Season of Expectation.

Let us, then, Celebrate this Solemnity with joy; for the Conception of Mary tells us that the Birth of Jesus is not far off.

The intention of The Church, in this Feast, is not only to Celebrate the anniversary of the happy moment in which began, in the womb of the pious Anne, the life of the ever-glorious Virgin Mary; but also to honour the sublime privilege, by which Mary was preserved from the original stain, which, by a sovereign and universal decree, is contracted by all the children of Adam the very moment they are conceived in their mother’s womb.

The faith of The Catholic Church on the subject of the Conception of Mary is this: That, at the very instant when God united the Soul of Mary, which He had created, to the body which it was to animate, this ever-blessed Soul did not only not contract the stain, but was filled with an immeasurable Grace which rendered her, from that moment, the mirror of the sanctity of God, Himself, as far as this is possible to a creature.

The Church, with her infallible authority, declared, by the lips of Blessed Pope Pius IX, that this Article of Faith had been revealed by God, Himself.

The Definition was received with enthusiasm by the whole of Christendom, and the eighth of December of the year 1854 was thus made one of the most memorable days of The Church’s history.

The following is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Mass: Gaudens Gaudébo In Domino.

Commemoration of the Feria is made.

Creed: Is said.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin. “Et te in Conceptióne Immaculáta”, which is said during The Octave.