Pope Francis, On Mary, The Assumption and Taking Risks

In carrying out its mission in the world, the Pope stressed that the Church “needs the help of the Holy Spirit to not be held back through fear and calculation, to not get used to walking within safe boundaries.”  Departing from his prepared text, he warned that these two attitudes lead the Church “to becoming an administrative or bureaucratic Church that never takes risks.” 

Instead, he said, the “Apostolic courage that the Holy Spirt ignites in us like a fire helps us to surmount walls and barriers, it makes us creative and it spurs us to set forth, journeying along unexplored or uncomfortable roads, offering help to whoever we encounter.

”http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/08/14/pope_at_angelus_church_needs_missionaries_not_bureaucrats/1251347

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/08/14/feast_of_the_assumption__our_ladys_dormition/1250943

On August 15th each year, the Catholic Church remembers the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven.  Different traditions hold that the Virgin Mary left this earthly life between three and fifteen years after Christ’s death and Resurrection.  She was assumed into heaven, accounts say, as she reposed in eternal sleep – either in Jerusalem or in Ephesus, in modern day Turkey.

Now here's a beginning...note it's in the Latin American Times...

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2418666&CategoryId=12395

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