Prologue

Come, my lips and wide proclaim the Blessed Virgin's spotless fame.

What is the Immaculate Conception?

Answer.

The Immaculate Conception refers to the condition that the Blessed Virgin Mary was free from Original Sin from the very moment of her conception in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne. We celebrate the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on September 8; nine months before is December 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.


In the Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX wrote that

"We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful."

As Father Hardon further writes, the Blessed Virgin's "freedom from sin was an unmerited gift of God or special grace, and an exception to the law, or privilege, which no other created person has received."


A misconception people have is that Mary's Immaculate Conception was necessary to ensure that Original sin would not be passed on to Christ. This has never been a part of the teaching on the Immaculate Conception; rather, the Immaculate Conception represents Christ's saving grace operating in Mary in anticipation of His redemption of man and in God's foreknowledge of Mary's acceptance of His Will for her.


In other words, the Immaculate Conception was not a precondition for Christ's act of redemption but the result of it. It is the concrete expression of God's love for Mary, who gave herself fully, completely, and without hesitation to His service.


This day as we contemplate the conception of the Virgin Mary may her sinlessness inspire us on our sojourn to the heavenly Jerusalem. Through her prayers, now and at the hour of our death, may we become worthy of the promises of Christ.



Reference: http://catholicism.about.com/od/beliefsteachings/f/Imm_Concept_FAQ.htm


#Ad majorem Dei gloriam

oluxmaranatha:
As if my 390/400 in the DE upase and my 4.xx/5.0 out of my nd institution isn't an assurance, i was hoping and praying to God till today when God crowned my efforts with admission into SVG department of futmx, thanks to God...it is my prayer that you all waiting for other updates should also get yours...LORD JESUS, my all! Futmx there i go

congrats bro and welcome to my department. You're definitely a member of my class. Svg 200lvl.

Thanks a lot. I use gionee M2. didn't see battery control app. just battery warning app and the odex.file. I deleted both and I'm hoping it solves the problem.

sexfabregas:


thanks

Please help with screenshots. I'm not getting it right.

Help a brother.

It only gets better.

FrancisTony:

Amen, my twin brother damerry!

You done with 1st semester?

Yes twin bro.

It's second semester here. Trying to live a balanced life, so u would get to see me here more often.

How's studies?

Good evening,

God bless us all. Amen.

Amen and Amen.

Francistony, a brother after my own heart. psalm 118 is indeed felicitous in these times. God we see us and all others in the hustle to success. Amen

Added to our prayers intentions, I pray against spiritual inconstancy, and all forms of fickleness. Good lord, make me a full time soldier, save me from being part-time and undercover.

May God bless us and answer our prayer requests.
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Hello bennyzino.

My Gionee M2 screen lights go off when I dial any number for calls. There's no obstruction covering the light sensor. Pls help

Kamsified:


Noted sunshine. We missed u too

Remember to pick your special psalm too

Noted

Kamsified:
I suggest that we make it like a novena of 10Hail marys+a psalm daily, for the intentions of each participant. Each person can chose a day they want to be remembered.
When it's your turn, you say some words of encouragements, ask questions, post something or make a speech on that special day. You can also post the specific thing you want us to pray for you about.
This is a suggestion and if you have anything to add, pls do so quickly so we can get started with the date picking.

Cc:



I learnt Salc is unavoidably absent for now so I will be in charge of posting who we're praying for each day(once we start picking dates)
We need everyone's participation pls and may God bless us all. Amen

And please pardon me if I missed your name, I'm still updating the attendance register

Dominus Vobiscum

Please, 17th would do for me.

I missed you all. It's wasn't easy for a freshman learning the ropes but God's grace is always sufficient. Nice to be home..

Dominus Vobiscum

SalC:
Where have you been?

I've been around conservatively.
Happy new year.

jnrbayano:


Happy new year to you.

Pls what does the bold means?

In my own case it means to get serious. Precisely on devotions.
So great is the fickleness of my heart that tomorrow I will give up what today have begun and stray for weeks.
I'm developing a measure which seems promising, it's about not eating until I've done my devotions.

I could use some more advice here.

Happy new year bro.

SalC:
Damerry....

Yesss.

Almost missed this. Didn't get a mention notification.

Happy new year to y'all.

Part of my resolution is to get religion.

So help me God.

FrancisTony:
SalC, damerry, Italo, PrinceCEE, Ubenedictus, treasuregr8, quivah, sleek2, miracy etc

You're needed here.

Just type, I vote for Jennimma.

I came late. Been away for a while. It's a good thing your jennimma won , so I'll type wats relevant at this time.

Congratulations Jennimma.

In this month of october (Month of Mary) .

I created an appopriate thread for this month but it never saw the light of frontpage, rather an hertical thread created by olaadegbu (catholic hater) made frontpage. Now seun talks about religious tolerance, is dis religious tolerance? I give up.

I say a big thank you to all of you, i pray that as you journey through this life may your nerves be calm and aims, true. That you may never neglect prayers by trusting in your ingenuity rather, May you be clothed in the merits and graces of our dear Mother.

I love you all.

Savouring the beauty of the Angelic salutation (Hail mary..) in Nigerian language.

Hail mary in hausa

Agaishe ki Mariyamu, Ka da ki ke mai samu alheri: Ubangiji yana tare de ke, mai albarka ki ke chikin mata, abin haifuwa na chikinki kuma mai-albarka ne Isa.
Mai-Tsarki Mariyamu, uwa Allah, ka yi ma mu maizunubi adua, yanzu dalokoci mutua mu. Amin.

Been there, experinced it, St. Louis De Monfort counsels on distractions.

one must not be looking for sensible devotion and spiritual consolation in the recitation of the Rosary; nor should one give it up because his mind is flooded with countless involuntary distractions or one experiences a strange distaste in the soul and an almost continual and oppressive fatigue in the body. Neither feeling, nor consolation, nor sighs, nor transports, nor the continual attention of the imagination are needed; faith and good intentions are quite enough. "Faith alone suffices." (C.F secrets of the rosary by St. Louis de monfort.)

All around the world, from the rising of the sun to its setting, the Rosary is prayed by many. Unite your Rosary prayers with those of eveyone praying. Chances are, someone somewhere is praying/meditating on the same mysteries with you.

Quick Facts about The Rosary

*.According to tradition, St. Dominic spread the devotion to the Holy Rosary in the thirtheenth century.

*.The Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary is observed on October 7th.

* The word Rosary means “crown of roses.”

* Praying the Rosary beads from right to left or left to right is perfectly okay.

*The crucifix and the first five beads are known as the pendent of the Rosary

*The Rosary has a crucifix, 59 beads, and oftentimes a centerpiece.

*Some other names for the Holy Rosary include: the Rosary, The Most Holy Rosary, the “Psalter of Mary,” the “prayer of the saints,” the Marian Rosary, “the beads,” and the “prayer weapon.”

*.Pope Piux XI dedicated the month of October to the Rosary in the twentieth century.

www.bellaonline.com/articles/art69090.asp

Happy Feast of our Lady of the Holy Rosary.

www.nairaland.com/1936631/10-great-tips-pray-not#26927303

Things to Do in honour of this great feast.

1. Attend Mass

2. Pray 5 decade of the rosary

3. Present a blessed Rosary to a friend/relation/stranger and urge him/her to pray it. (It should be presented as a gift)

4. Read the encyclicals on the rosary, and the latest apostolic letter

5. Share Testimonies on favours obtained from praying the rosary

6. Post the angelic salutation (Hail mary...) in your native language.

7. Live the holy Rosary

9. Grow In Virtue

Mother Angelica, In her book, (The Prayers and Personal Devotions of Mother Angelica) discusses how to use the Rosary to grow in Virtue:

“If you’re not making progress in one virtue, say your Rosary and meditate on that virtue as Our Lord practiced it. I cannot get over my faults and weaknesses if I don’t substitute those faults and weaknesses for something of God. This is precisely why the life of Jesus and the reading of Scripture and the rosary never seem to change us – why we remain the same: Because to change you need to admire someone other than yourself.”

10. Ask Mary For Help

This one’s so obvious that it’s easy to overlook!. Before beginning the Rosary, we should ask Our Blessed Mother to help us pray devoutly. Although the Rosary follows a simple pattern, it can be a very challenging prayer to master. Rest assured that many of the Saints struggled with it too. If you find it difficult to pray the Rosary, try out these tips and see what happens. It might take a little time, but eventually your persistence will pay off. The next time you pick up your rosary beads, imagine that you’re holding Mary’s hand and taking a trip to visit Jesus. For when we pray the Rosary, that’s exactly what happens!

Obliged to; www.followingthetruth.com/10-great-tips-to-help-you-pray-not-just-say-the-rosary/

Dear friends, today, October 7th is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. This feast was instituted by Pope St. Pius V in thanksgiving for the great naval victory over the Turks at the battle of Lepanto on this day in the year 1570, a favor due to the recitation of the Rosary. I bring you ten great tips that will augment our Rosary devotion and consequently better our devotion to Mary.

1. Less Is More

"It is not necessary to ramble through the whole Rosary; it is better to say only one or two decades, and to say them right. quality is more important than quantity."...Msgr. Romano Guardini (The Rosary Of Our Lady)

2. You Are Not Alone

A great proponent of Marian devotion, St. Louis de Montfort urges us to be aware of our company while praying the rosary. In The Secret of the Rosary, Montfort reminds us that, when we pray the Rosary, we should put ourselves in God’s presence and imagine that He (along with the Blessed Mother) is watching us and that our guardian angel is standing to our right. If we say the prayers well, our angel will use them to make crowns for Jesus and Mary. Thinking about this before beginning to pray helps us to realize that we are doing A LOT more than just repeating pious words!

3. Watch What You Say

St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, contributes a simple, but often overlooked suggestion. He encourages us to pronounce each Our Father and Hail Mary clearly and without rushing. In doing so, we will better express our love for Mary and Jesus. When praying the Rosary, it’s easy to fall into the trap of mumbling and our rushing through the prayers. Remembering that the Our Father was handed down to us from Jesus and that most of the Hail Mary is taken directly from Scripture should help us to recall that the words DO mean something!

4. Been There, Done That.

“In the Rosary we rejoice, sorrow and triumph with Our Lady as she walks the same path we have to walk. But now she has reached the end.”....Maisie Ward

When we pray the Rosary, we should remember that Mary understands our problems and confusion. By meditating on the events in her life and the life of her Son, we can obtain help for our daily struggles from someone who is now in a place where we’d like to someday be!

5. Listen To The Word

In his Apostolic Letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae (On The Most Holy Rosary), Pope Saint John Paul II recommends that we supplement our Rosary meditations with Bible reading. After announcing the individual mystery, the late Holy Father encourages us to read an appropriate Bible passage. While this is not always possible (if we are praying while walking or driving, for instance), we can still mentally recall the details of an appropriate Bible story. This underscores the importance of becoming familiar with Sacred Scripture.

6. Savour The Repititions

Sometimes it feels as if praying the Rosary is just “repeating a bunch of words”! In fact, one of the criticisms of the Rosary is that it is nothing more than “vain repetition”. In his book, The World’s First Love: Mary, Mother of God, Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen addresses those who consider the rosary to be monotonous. Using the analogy of a husband telling his wife “I love you” or a mother proclaiming “you’re a good boy” to her child, Sheen stresses that the words mean something different at each point in time that they are repeated. In the same way, each time we pray the Rosary, we are saying “I love you” to God, the Trinity, to Jesus and to Mary. With each successive bead (or decade) the meaning shifts as we contemplate a new aspect of Jesus or Mary’s love.

7. Do Whatever He Tells You

Praying the Rosary, no matter how devoutly, is never a substitute for following the commands of Jesus and His Church. The Rosary should spur us on to live the mysteries in our daily life. In his book, The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales on Our Lady, St. Francis de Sales had this to say:

“The worldly-minded imagine that devotion to Our Lady usually consists in carrying a rosary in their cincture. It seems to them that it is enough to pray it a number of times without doing anything else. In this they are greatly mistaken. For our dear Mistress wants us to do what her Son commands us (John 2:5) and considers as done to herself the honor we give to her Son by keeping His commandments.”

8. Think

The Rosary is more than a series of prayers to be recited. Rather, it is “a series of thoughts to be dwelt on, to be turned over in the mind, to be applied in daily life.”.....Father Peyton (Rosary Prayer Book)

While we are saying the words of the prayers, we should be meditating upon the mysteries for it’s the key to unleashing the power of the Rosary.

From the posts i've viewed so far, Educational courses and Fisheries is most underated.

Interesting.. Please 7th for me @ salc

Babygal4eva:

Natural pink lips.. some guys have it and it is sxy as bleep, u just wanna lick it... lol don't mind me, mostly fair guys have pink lips but I've seen a few dark guys too

Oh how sweet. Thank God i gat pink lips. 8-)

Welcome to the month of october, A month of devotion to Mary. Oh, that this month, you will bring to Mary your hearts and be of good cheer. Please share this and remain blessed.