Lord that His flesh and blood in the Holy Sacrament of the altar can almost be said to be the flesh and blood of Mary herself — how, I say, can I believe that that body was one of those of whom God said: " Dust thou art and into dust thou shalt return 99? Or if it did return to dust; if it awaits, like other mortals, the general resurrection, is it not reasonable to suppose that God would have done as much for it as He has for so many others of the saints, and miraculously preserved it from corruption and decay? The Catholic mind, instinctively almost, rejects the thought that the body of Mary — the temple of the Lord — should ever be the food of worms, but believes, rather, that it was preserved as free from corruption as was the soul that animated it. Now if it was so preserved, where, I ask, does it now rest? The whole world knows where lie the bodies of the Apostles and the principal saints, but who will tell us where lies the body of Mary? Surely it is unreasonable to suppose that almighty God, while providing, in a wonderful manner, for the preservation and veneration of the bodies of His saints, should allow the body of that saint of saints — His own Mother — either to return to the dust from which it sprung or to lie in an unknown and an unhonored grave. No. I prefer, rather, to believe what our Catholic faith suggests, and what reason and the traditions of our Church confirm, that soon after Our Lord entered into the home of His eternal rest, turning to His Mother He said with the Psalmist: "Enter thou, also, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy sanctification." As Solomon,
