Microsoft.XMLDOM ASP XML Parsing

I have an XML string:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SSOUser><Status>FAIL</Status><Message>Unable to find session id of
1137018716939</Message></SSOUser>

That I am trying to retrieve the values between the tags for.
I want to get the value from:

<Status>FAIL</Status>
so I get the value "FAIL"

I am using the following code (and have tried MANY variations) to retrieve
the specific field values but I can not find out how to do this.

response.Write(xml.childNodes(1).text)

This writes the ENTIRE XML data to the screen. I want to get the above data
ONLY. I want to be able to do this ALL in ASP server side ONLY.