Faith as Gift:

Just as our lives are God’s gift to us, so is our faith. Left to ourselves, we have no way in which to find meaning in the apparent jumble of the world around us. Left to ourselves, we can make no fitting response. Just as it is the Lord who provides the revelation, so it is the Lord who enables us to grasp it and to answer it.

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If God would assume Elijah into Heaven, wouldn't Jesus do the same for His own mother? Wouldn't God do the same for the New Eve, the Ark of His Covenant, His most perfect creature, the woman who not only touched God, but carried Him in her own body, nursed Him, raised Him up from childhood, prompted His first miracle at Cana, stood at the foot of the Cross?

- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (on the Feast of the Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary)