"Go back to that night when Divine Light, in order to illumine the darkness of men, tabernacled Himself in the world He had made… The angels and a star...

It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.
~ Fulton J. Sheen ~












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