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17 posted on 08/15/2014 10:00:52 PM PDT by Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
But even though, according to nature, your most holy and happy soul is separated from your most blessed and stainless body and the body as usual is delivered to the tomb, it will not remain in the power of death and is not subject to decay. For just as her virginity remained inviolate while giving birth, when she departed her body was preserved from destruction and only taken to a better and more divine tabernacle, which is not subject to any death . . . Hence I will call her holy passing not death, but falling asleep or departure, or better still, arrival. . . . Your stainless and wholly immaculate body has not been left on earth; the Queen, the Mistress, the Mother of God who has truly given birth to God has been translated to the royal palaces of heaven.
-- Saint John Damascene
18 posted on 08/15/2014 10:02:46 PM PDT by Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)