In speaking today of those in heaven who are interested in us we realise something at least of what St Paul meant when he said he was indebted to the whole world. In the sweep of his vision he meant Christ and all the saints—St Stephen whose persecutors' garments he had held. And so we owe much to all sorts of people, known and unknown. How much we owe to our blessed Lady herself. We think of and speak of her under many titles and invocations, but one title strange though it sounds at first shows more than any other the perfect balance of her character. ‘Tower of Ivory’. We remember how one of the Jewish kings built a palace of ivory for himself, what ever that may mean, probably something we do not know.