December 8, 2025
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Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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☆ Gospel:Luke 1:26-38
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Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee, named Nazareth,
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To a virgin who was to be married to a man named Joseph, of the family of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary.
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And the angel came in to her and said, Peace be with you, to whom special grace has been given; the Lord is with you.
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But she was greatly troubled at his words, and said to herself, What may be the purpose of these words?
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And the angel said to her, Have no fear, Mary, for you have God's approval.
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And see, you will give birth to a son, and his name will be Jesus.
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He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:
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He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.
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And Mary said to the angel, How may this be, because I have had no knowledge of a man?
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And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.
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Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.
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For there is nothing which God is not able to do.
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And Mary said: I am the servant of the Lord; may it be to me as you say. And the angel went away.
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☆ Genesis 3:9-15, 20
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But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
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And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:
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For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.
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And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
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And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.
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And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.
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And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?
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And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.
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And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?
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And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
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And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.
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And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:
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And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
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And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.
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☆ Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12
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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:
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Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
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As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,
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To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
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In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
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So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:
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