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THE DAILY NOVENA INVOCATION
Day 8:
O
Mary, Mother of God and Mother of us, thou who by a singular privilege,
in virtue of the foreseen death of our Redeemer, wast redeemed from the
first moment of thy conception and preserved immune from every spot of
Original Sin, we firmly believe in this thy privilege and we proclaim
it aloud, saying: "Thou art all fair, O Mary, and in thee there is no
stain"; thou art the Immaculate; thy raiment is white as snow; thy face
shines like the sun; in thee we marvel at the brightness of eternal
light and the spotless mirror of Divine beauty. Like the Divine
Redeemer, thou art wholly and utterly fair, for in Him there can be no
stain and thou art His most perfect reflection.
We all rejoice in the Lord, as we celebrate the feast that recalls this
singular privilege of thine, O Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, and
we unite ourselves to thee in magnifying and thanking Our Lord, Who
through thee hath done such wondrous deeds, and hath given us in thee
good cause for rejoicing.
We would be ever worthy to love thee and to sing thy glories, O Mary,
our Immaculate Mother, but we are by nature sons of wrath, and only by
grace can we become thy children and acceptable unto thee. From thee we
hope for assistance in obtaining
the pardon of our sins, the strength to overcome our wicked passions,
and to escape the snares. laid for us by the world and the devil.
Wherefore, O Immaculate Mother, Mary, inspire in us an intense hatred
of sin, perfect contrition for the sins we have committed, and a lively
fear of falling again into sin; make our hearts and our bodies
immaculate, lest we be confounded forever; and so, being cleansed of
sin, with our passions under control, and the enemies of our salvation
overcome, with pure hearts burning with love of thee, may we be able to
sing to thee with unfaltering voices: "Thou art all fair, O Mary, and
in thee there is no Original Stain; thou art our glory, thou art our
joy."
The Raccolta
Glorious things are spoken
of thee, O Mary; for He that is mighty hath done great things unto thee.
The Roman Missal
Hail Mary.
Forward for Day 9.
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