A Retreat on the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

A Retreat on the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a beautiful series of four conferences by the late Rev. Cadoc D. Leighton, O. Praem., is remembered by his confreres of Chelmsford as “one of the best community retreats [they] have experienced.” Drawing together devotional, historical, doctrine, and spiritual reflections, Fr. Cadoc guides us to a deeper knowledge of and devotion to the Immaculate Conception and the place of the Mother of God in salvation history and our lives. He unfolds so compellingly that “the clarification of doctrine is always an occasion of grace….and grace is given most when it is sought, and cooperated with. The definition [of the Immaculate Conception] therefore was seen as a petition for an outpouring of divine grace, given through Mary’s own hands.”