Jesus Likes Me, This I Know

a post-script homily for All Saints

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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When I was child, no more than nine or ten, while saying my bedtime prayers I heard myself suddenly singing a song to Mary thanking her for sharing Jesus with us. I knew, somehow, that without her sacrifice we would not have known him; if not for her, he would not have been mine. I was overcome with grati…