“What does obedience do for us?  Obedience gives us faith.  Are we reacting against Christ and His Church, or are we accepting its authority?  Faith comes from that kind of submission.  Remember that when our blessed Lord was born, Herod consulted the scribes.  He said to the scribes, ‘Where is Christ to be born?’ They said, ‘He is to be born in Bethlehem.’  Did they go?  There was not a single scribe at the crib – not one.  But they knew.  Our faith today can be a kind of creedal assent, instead of a living act of the will, conscious of the fact that we are submitting to Christ, as Christ submitted to the heavenly Father.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Through the Year with Fulton Sheen)