NOUN
- (Christianity) the Roman Catholic dogma that God preserved the Virgin Mary from any stain of original sin from the moment she was conceived
- Roman Catholic holy day first celebrated in 1854
How To Use Immaculate Conception In A Sentence
- Despite the Eastern origins of the liturgical feasts of the Assumption and Immaculate Conception, because Rome has defined them as dogmas many Eastern theologians have denied them. Looking Eastward?
- Then on the four small beads say the "Hail Mary", adding after each, "Blessed be the pure, holy and immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- A discussion concerning the Immaculate Conception in which I told him that it concerned not Mary, but the mother of Mary. Bernard-Henri Lévy: Is Jean-Luc Godard Antisemitic? First Episode: Hail Mary (1984)
- Her "immaculate conception" in the womb of her own mother—i.e. her miraculous preservation from original sin—made her, in a unique way, what we all become at the moment of our baptism: a vessel filled with God's unmerited grace, which in the primary sense is nothing other than his divinizing love. Mary and EENS
- Some see in it the girdle ot hymen and the promise of the immaculate conception of a Messiah.
- A girl dressed as an angel on the day of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception celebrations in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala.
- The Immaculate Conception and the Assumption are rooted in the patristic axiom that Mary was the worthy Mother of God, a worthy tabernacle of the Most High.
- An astute reader noticed that the title is a common modern error which misapplies the “Immaculate Conception” to the virgin birth. The Immaculate Conception Of Sharks And Lizards « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
- A phone call relayed to Barbara Havers what Lynley had learned from Richard Davies, including the name she needed to gain access to the Convent of the Immaculate Conception. A Traitor to Memory
- Alice herself was deaf and dumb until - she claims - she saw a vision of the Immaculate Conception.
