Month of December: Immaculate Conception
by VP
Posted on Monday December 01, 2025 at 03:00AM in Monthly Devotion
Devotion for the Month of December: the Immaculate Conception
Prayer of St. Bernard: THROUGH thee, O ever blessed Virgin, may it be
allowed to us to approach thy Son. Through thee, O Fountain of Grace,
Source of Life, and Mother of Salvation, may we be received by Him Who
was given to us by thee. May thy immaculate sanctity,
O most holy Virgin, hide from His eyes the stain of our corruption, and
may thy most profound humility obtain from God the pardon of our pride.
May thy boundless charity cover the multitude of our sins, and thy
glorious fruitfulness confer on us fruitfulness of merits. Mother,
Mediatrix, and Advocate, we beg of thee to reconcile us to thy Son, to
recommend us to thy Son, to represent us with thy Son. Oh, most blessed
Mother, by the favour which thou didst find with God, by the
prerogatives which thou didst merit, by the Lord of Mercy, to whom thou
didst give birth, we implore thee to prevail by thy prayers on Him, Who,
through thee, deigned to share our misery and weakness, so that He may
deign to make us sharers of His eternal happiness and glory to Whom,
together with the Father and Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, for
ever and ever. Amen. Novena for the Immaculate Conception, Fr. Louis Parodi, SJ 1915
Virtue for the month of September: Union
Qui manet in eharitate, in Deo manet, et Deus in eo — Whoabidethin charity, abideth in God, and God in him. — I John, iv : 16.
The object of all virtues is to bring us into union with God, in which alone is laid up all the happines that can be enjoyed in this world. Now, in what does ibis unioa properly consist ? In nothing save a perfect conformity and resemblance between our will and the will of God, so that these two wills are absolutely alike — there is nothing in one repugnant to the otber ; all that one wishes and loves, the other wishes and loves ; whatever pleases or displeases one, pleases or displeases the other. — St. John of the Cross.
December's Poetry:
December thou wert named
By whom the wise remember
As fighting warrior famed
To fill Ambition's blighting.
Thy frozen runes appear,
As slanting sun has chosen,
Directing icy cheer
And life of Bloom dissecting.
The smitten hearts are sad
By wind and cold much bitten,
But cheerful is and glad
The soul of bliss less fearful.
Thy mornings shine not bright
Nor fill the daytime yearnings,
Yet glory's thy delight
And shows the festive stories.
The purest feast of her
Who was of bliss the surest
Engages days that stir
The virtuous of all ages.
Thy sainted list is grand
As Nature white is painted
In glowings joys that stand
Above all human knowing.
The manger saw the Light
The inn foretold a danger,
And heaven, in the night,
Announced the saving Leaven.
The Glorious of the meek,
Who spent His days laborious,
Remembers them who seek
His love in sorrow's embers.
First Martyr, John, and they
Who gave their life as charter
The hated sword to stay
Are in they rolls related.
Let cherished be thy days!
Thought Nature now has perished,
December still we praise
Our birthright to remember.
Rev. T.F. Kramer, C.PP.S.
1923 Messenger of the Most Precious Blood, Volumes 28-29
