Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

Hi and welcome back to the show. I'm so excited for today's episode, the Q&A episode I've been talking

about all spring. I want to give a big thanks to the many people who sent me in their questions

on Facebook or Twitter or my website. And I'm going to try to get through most of those today.

If I don't get to yours, know that I'm going to hold on to them

and try to work them in in future episodes.

But today, I'm going to tackle questions

about the theology of marriage,

especially about marrying non-Catholic.

I got a number of questions about that.

I got questions about Jesus' death on the cross,

about what's so new about the new evangelization,

and I got one on this week's feast day about the

ascension of Jesus but I want to start with a question about the Blessed Virgin

Mary are there any Mary lovers out there you people who love Mary? You remember those cryptic words that

Simian spoke to Mary in the presentation scene? Do you remember that? Listen to those words and

then the fourth joyful mystery.

Simeon turns to Mary singles her out and says,

Behold, this child is set for the rise and fall of many in Israel and for a sign that is spoken against a

sword will pierce through your soul also so that the thoughts out of many hearts

may be revealed. Now I'm going to turn to John who sent me this

question from Facebook. John was wondering about that last line. It comes in

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