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Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File MANILA - The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is usually celebrated by the Catholic Church on December 8. But for 2024, it will be ...

The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is a time to celebrate the great joy of God’s gift to humanity in Mary, and to recognize with greater clarity, the truth that each and every human ...

It is the devotion of the people that inspires me and the solemnity of the occasion that energizes me. Nowhere else in the Philippines can one experience an event like this. While the priests at ...