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Hello, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, August 15th, 2018, and for us Catholics, it's a big feast day.

I would like to wish you a very happy feast of the Assumption of Mary into heaven.

So first of all, let's talk about what happened on the assumption of Mary into heaven.

Now, unlike the rest of us, Mary never actually died.

Her body never stopped living.

What's going to happen for us is that at one point our body will die

and our spirit, our soul, will go on, we pray, to live eternally with God in heaven. But this isn't

what happened to Mary. Mary, when she reached the end of her life, was assumed body and

soul up into heaven. And not only that, when she reached heaven, we know that God honored her by crowning her

as queen of heaven and earth. And that's where Mary remains.

Mary remains in heaven, but she hasn't forgotten about us. Mary is our mother. She is the queen

of earth too, and she wants nothing more than to bring us closer every single day closer to a

relationship of love with her son, Jesus. Now, today on the Feast of the Assumption, I want you to

think about something. I want you to think about how you feel after you sin. After you do something wrong,

that you knew was wrong, how do you feel afterwards? Chances are you feel bad, you feel heavy,

you feel sad. The thing about sin is that sin pulls us down. It doesn't allow us to feel

light and happy. It makes us feel slow and sad. In a very real way, sin ties us to this earth.

And let me tell you something, my friends.

We weren't created for this earth.

Our life on this earth will always be hard.

It will always be sad.

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