The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 9 is a holy day of obligation, and we are happy to offer several Mass opportunities for you! Join us:

Feast Day Masses
Monday, December 9 at 12:05 p.m. (St. Michael) and 5:30 p.m. (Old River Pastoral Center)

A little bit on this beautiful Solemnity: 
CCC 490 To become the mother of the Saviour, Mary “was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role.” The angel Gabriel at the moment of the annunciation salutes her as “full of grace”.  In fact, in order for Mary to be able to give the free assent of her faith to the announcement of her vocation, it was necessary that she be wholly borne by God's grace.

CCC 491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, “full of grace” through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:

The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.