Reference: Pre-existence of Souls
Hastings
'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.'
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But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the Lord.
saying: Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will leave this life. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Praise the name of the Lord.
Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all [my] days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.
and the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped inside her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then she exclaimed with a loud cry: You are the most blessed of women, and your child will be blessed! read more. How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For you see, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped for joy inside me!
His disciples questioned Him: "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
Our Lord and God, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You have created all things, and because of Your will they exist and were created.