A BLESSED FEAST DAY TO ALL WHO CLAIM MARY IMMACULATE AS THEIR PATRONESS

On this 8^th of December, as we prepare for the bicentenary of our approbation, we read the words of Pope Leo XII with which he concluded the written proclamation of approbation, issued a month after the verbal approval:

We firmly hope that the members of this holy family, who are employed in the ministry of the Word of God under Rules so well fitted to form hearts to piety, and who claim as their patroness the Virgin Mother of God conceived without sin, will strive with all their strength and especially by their example, to bring back to the bosom of the Mother of Mercy those persons, whom Jesus Christ on His Cross willed to give her as sons.

Given at Rome, at St. Peter’s, under the Fisherman’s Ring, on the twenty first day of March, 1826, in the third year of Our Pontificate.

(Roman Diary, EO XVII)

A blessed feast day to all the members of our Oblate Charismatic Family.