Immaculate Conception novena to place 2022 in Mary’s hands: Day 6

We entrust to Mary and Joseph the coming year, asking her to guide us in and through it, that each day of 2022 will bring us closer to her Son.

The mystery of the Immaculate Conception is a source of inner light, hope, and comfort.

Amidst the trials of life and, especially, the contradictions that man experiences within and around himself, Mary, Mother of Christ, tells us that Grace is greater than sin, that God’s mercy is more powerful than evil and it is able to transform it into good.

~Benedict XVI, December 8, 2010

This is the oldest recorded Marian prayer, outside of the texts from the Gospels:

We fly to Thy protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.

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