Day Twelve, GLORIOUS MYSTERIES, Wednesday February 11, Feast of the Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes

Our Lady of Lourdes: "I am the Immaculate Conception"

Less than four years after the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Bl. Pius IX, Our Lady proclaimed to the world through Bernadette Soubirous that she is the Immaculate  Conception.  It is she who will destroy all heresies. We must approach her with complete confidence. The world has all but forgotten God, the Revolution against Jesus Christ and His Church have gained victories that, to us believers, seem staggering and mind-numbing.  We are confident, however, in the promises of Heaven. By proclaiming herself the Immaculate Conception, she ratifies the words of Christ's Vicar on Earth, Pius IX, as he proclaimed the truth of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary:

We have, therefore, a very certain hope and complete confidence that the most Blessed Virgin will ensure by her most powerful patronage that all difficulties be removed and all errors dissipated, so that our Holy Mother the Catholic Church may flourish daily more and more throughout all the nations and countries, and may reign "from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth," and may enjoy genuine peace, tranquility and liberty. We are firm in our confidence that she will obtain pardon for the sinner, health for the sick, strength of heart for the weak, consolation for the afflicted, help for those in danger; that she will remove spiritual blindness from all who are in error, so that they may return to the path of truth and justice, and that here may be one flock and one shepherd. (Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, 1854)