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Aug 2021
13m 43s

God’s Warrior Queen

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, today on this marvelous Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin, we celebrate Mary’s assumption, body and soul, into heaven. But this does not mean that she has gone away; she is a warrior, involved in the struggle against evil from a new vantage point.

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