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Good News #193 100425: Mustard-Seed Faith: Courage, Planning, and Perseverance · Catholic Spirit Radio

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  Welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio, a program for teens and almost
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  teens to better understand that the gospel of Jesus Christ is relevant in their
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  lives, and it's a place where your questions about faith and religion can be answered.
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  And now, here's your host, Deacon Al.
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  Good evening, and welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio.
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  I am Deacon Al Lundy, and good evening to my mother-in-law, Margaret,
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  who listened to my program for the first time last weekend.
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  And I think, what, I've been on the air three years?
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  Close to three years? Maybe more than that? And my mother-in-law listened to
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  my show for the first time. She doesn't have internet.
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  So we had to teach her how to listen in on how did we do that?
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  Somehow my wife got her to listen to the program.
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  But she enjoyed it. So that's good. So I hope you're listening again, Margaret.
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  And what was that? Oh, that was leading me to talk about blessings and vacation.
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  So, I've had many blessings in my life, and thank you, God, for that,
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  because they're undeserved, they're unearned, they're just simply gifts from
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  God, and I appreciate and value each one of them.
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  And one of the real blessings I've had in my life is my wife's family is truly wonderful.
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  I mean, I have great in-laws. My father-in-law, God rest his soul,
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  one of the great men in my life I probably loved and respected.
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  Did Tony as much as I did my own father.
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  And Margaret Marge, my mother-in-law, is just such a wonderful woman.
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  Very faithful, very joyful, 95 years old, still lives on her own,
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  does her own cooking, her own grocery shopping.
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  Now, my wife or my sister-in-law takes her to the store, but Margaret does her own shopping.
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  Good for her. She does a lot of her own housekeeping. I mean,
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  she's living independently at 95.
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  That's amazing. That is amazing. And she's just the nicest woman.
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  I love when she comes over to the house to visit.
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  I love having her as a guest.
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  And my sister-in-laws, I have two sister-in-laws. Sharon has an older sister and a younger sister.
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  And they're both terrific women. I mean, just so much fun to be around when
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  the three of them are in one room together.
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  I need a giggle break. I mean, because it gets so noisy because the three of
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  them just keep each other in stitches.
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  And I often have to find reason to go out to the backyard and fix a fence or
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  something to get away from the noise.
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  But they're really, they're just all really sweet women.
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  So Donna, my wife's older sister, is married to Dave.
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  And Dave and I are just great friends. We've always gotten along really, really well.
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  We're both into gardening and landscaping, and Dave did it professionally until
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  he retired just last November.
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  And so when he comes to my house, we end up out in the garden working.
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  When I go to his house, we end up out in his yard, in his garden working.
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  And we just have a great time together. But we're very, very different people.
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  Catholic on my side, Lutheran on Dave's side, but he's very devout in his Lutheran
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  faith, as I am in my Catholic faith, or at least try to be.
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  But we do things very differently. Even our vacations, and this is what I'm going to get at.
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  I vacation a very specific way, and so does Dave, and they're complete opposites.
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  So Sharon and I right now are planning July's vacation.
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  And this isn't the first month we started. We started in July when we got back from the last vacation.
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  Within a week, we were already planning the next vacation a year from now.
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  And we have to do that because I'm really busy.
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  The church keeps me really, really busy.
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  Keeping the church, my responsibilities at the church going,
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  my responsibilities at home going, it keeps me really, really busy.
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  So things like a vacation I have to plan way in advance.
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  Dave and Donna do not do that. Dave and Donna decide, let's go on vacation next week.
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  That's what they do. And they have a wonderful vacation. And Sharon and I have wonderful vacations.
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  But mine are planned down to great detail.
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  I mean, this is October, early October.
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  Our vacation is going to be in July. We have our airline tickets.
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  We have our hotel accommodations already reserved.
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  I already know some of the activities we're going to do, and we've bought tickets.
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  By the end of this week, I will know where we will be going to Mass and at what
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  time while we're gone, right?
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  I mean, when we leave, we know exactly where we're going, when we have to be there.
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  Now we've got some gaps in there to where we can say, okay, if this doesn't
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  work out, we can do it another day.
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  Or if the weather's bad, that's okay. We can stay at the hotel for a day.
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  That's not going to matter. So I have off time planned in there,
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  but like this next vacation is going to include airliners, float planes,
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  trains, boats, all within a two-week period.
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  I mean, that's why you have to plan in advance. I mean, you can't just go and
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  do this stuff. Dave can. I don't see how he does this.
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  Dave and Donna leave the house. They decide, hey, next week, let's go on vacation.
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  And they'll pack. And here's the extent of their planning.
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  Let's go east. That's it. Pack their bags for two weeks. Let's go east. They'll start driving.
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  Well, where do you want to stay tonight? Well, where do we think we'll be?
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  Well, we might be to this point. Well, let's get online while they're driving.
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  If Dave's driving, Donna gets online and she finds a place for them to stay
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  that night. And they just, they do two weeks like that.
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  What do you want to do today? I don't see what we run into.
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  And all they know is they want to get to the Atlantic Ocean.
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  They know that. And they want to get home in two weeks. And other than that, it's whatever comes up.
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  I can't do that. I can't. I've got to have times and calendars.
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  I've got to know where I'm going to lay my head down.
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  I've got to know what am I going to do this day? What's the big event for this particular day?
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  And we both have wonderful, wonderful vacations. And they're nothing alike.
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  Well, the reason I bring that up is, I don't know what you're,
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  I'm talking to my seven listeners out there,
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  including Margaret, I don't know how you plan your religious obligations,
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  how you plan your worship.
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  Maybe you don't. Maybe you don't know what church service you're going to go to yet this weekend.
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  Maybe you don't even know what church you're going to go to this weekend.
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  I can't do that. I have to know where and when. I have to know exactly.
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  I have to put my prayer time into my calendar so that I don't work through it.
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  I have to know when I'm going to pause for adoration or any kind of work. I have to plan my study.
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  When am I going to study Scripture?
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  How long am I going to? I have to know that ahead of time. I have to purposely
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  plan for my faith, where some people can just get up in the morning and they're
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  perfectly faithful during the day.
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  They participate in prayer, perhaps adoration, go to a church service,
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  whatever, but they just go wherever the good Lord takes them,
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  wherever the Holy Spirit drives them to, that's what they do.
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  And we both have good, fulfilling religious lives.
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  Piety, study, action, times where we use our Christian faith to help others,
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  put our faith into action.
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  So we all do that, but very different ways.
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  And I guess I bring that out because, and this will come out in our readings
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  for the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time that we're going to be talking about.
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  It's okay if the way you live your faith life isn't the same way that your neighbor
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  does it, or the same way I do it, or the same way you do it, John.
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  It doesn't have to follow any particular pattern. what works best for you.
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  If you're not getting in prayer time and you're not getting in worship time,
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  then maybe you need to become more.
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  More like me in the way that I have to plan it. If you're getting plenty in
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  without a plan, good for you. Go for it.
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  As long as you're getting the job done. You know, as long as my brother-in-law
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  and my sister-in-law have a good vacation, how they have it really doesn't matter.
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  But if you're going to go on vacation, have a good vacation.
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  With them, it's just spur of the moment, and with me, it takes a year of planning.
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  Neither is bad, neither is better. It's just, as long as you're achieving the
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  goal, I guess the question is, have the goal.
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  What's your goal when it comes to your faith life?
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  Where do you want to be in your relationship with Christ?
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  And how you get there is up to you. But as long as you're making that happen,
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  That's the important part.
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  So Dave and Donna, when you head east, have a wonderful vacation.
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  We're heading west. I'm sure we're going to have another. I don't think we're
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  going to bump into each other this time.
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  But just have a great time and do it your way as long as you reach your goal.
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  And we're going to talk about reaching our goals in our readings,
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  which are going to come up pretty soon.
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  We're going to pause for a few minutes, listen to some friends from the station,
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  and then we'll be back to Catholic Spirit Radio and more good news. Stay tuned.
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  on Tuesday, October 7th, which is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
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  The event parking lot opens at 6 p.m. with refreshments, fellowship,
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  Let's pray and sing for Mary's intercession for peace and to unite our nation under God.
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  And welcome back to Good News. I'm Deacon Al Lundy, a permanent deacon of the
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  Peoria Diocese, and a pleasure to be speaking to all of you,
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  regardless of what diocese you're in.
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  And we're reaching, I think, five now out of our many frequencies and stations
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  that are part of the network of Catholic Spirit Radio.
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  And it's a joy to have you all with us. And it's nice because we all share the
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  same readings at our Mass this weekend.
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  And so this part of the program where we do reflections on the reading can be
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  addressed to all of us because we all share that in our Catholic faith.
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  So our first reading this weekend, the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time,
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  I can't believe how fast the year has gone. Just incredible.
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  I've already seen Christmas decorations. It's not even Halloween,
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  and Christmas decorations are going up in the stores.
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  That's just crazy. So our first reading is from the book of the prophet Habakkuk.
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  And Habakkuk is not one we hear from a lot.
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  So it's nice that we delve into all the prophets of the Old Testament throughout the year.
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  Our second reading is Second Letter to Timothy from Paul, and our gospel is
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  still Luke because we're in that cycle. Cycle C is the Luke cycle.
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  So this first reading, as I was looking at this, it's amazing.
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  I'm always fascinated how these scriptures from over 2,000 years ago are still so current,
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  so effective to what we're going through in this time.
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  And as I read this, all I could think about was Charlie Kirk.
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  And I think you'll see why. So, from the book of the prophet Habakkuk.
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  How long, O Lord! I cry for help, but you do not listen. I cry out to you violence,
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  but you do not intervene.
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  Why do you let me see ruin? Why must I look at misery?
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  Destruction and violence are before me. There is strife and clamorous discord.
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  Then the Lord answered me and said, Write down the vision clearly upon the tablets,
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  so that one can read it readily.
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  For the vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment,
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  and will not disappoint.
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  If it delays, wait for it. It will surely come. It will not be late.
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  The rash one has no integrity, but the just one, because of his faith,
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  shall live. The word of the Lord.
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  Now, remember, in Habakkuk's time, this scripture was very relevant.
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  And if you think about it, it's still relevant in the actions we see today.
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  We see such violence around us. I mean, just in the last three weeks,
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  think of all the shootings that have taken place at churches,
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  and again, with Charlie.
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  So, why do we have to see all this violence? Why do we have to see all this ruin?
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  Why do we have to look at misery? Well, it's because of sin.
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  It's because man is still sinning.
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  This isn't the work of God that we're seeing. This isn't God who's causing this
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  violence. This isn't God who's causing this chaos.
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  This is the sin of human beings. And God tells us that that's going to happen.
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  That's going to be with us throughout time because we can't get rid of sin.
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  We can choose not to sin, but we can't get rid of sin. We can choose not to participate in it.
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  We can choose to take another road. We can choose to be different.
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  Charlie Kirk chose to be different, right? The martyrs throughout time chose to be different.
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  They chose to not go with the sinful activity of society and to be different,
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  to make a different choice, to stand out as representatives of Christ.
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  And for that, violence came to them. They didn't seek it.
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  Violence was brought to them. And that's going to continue to happen.
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  The violence and the chaos we see will ebb and flow.
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  At times in our lives, it will be greater. At times, it will be lesser.
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  But it's never going to be gone until the final judgment.
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  And God's telling Habakkuk, be patient. It's going to happen.
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  I've promised you it's going to happen.
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  That eventually, all the just will be with me in heaven.
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  It's just not today. And so, we have to persevere.
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  We have to be patient and persevere and continue to be examples of Christ's
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  love and not get caught up in the violence and the chaos of the world.
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  I look at what's going on right now in Portland. Oh my gosh.
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  I mean, the streets are in absolute chaos.
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  And they wait till evening, they wait till the dark, right? And Scripture tells
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  us over and over again, we are people of light, right?
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  And what happens in the dark, God sees.
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  So, these mobsters who think that because they come out at night and do this, they have anonymity,
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  they might be able to hide from the community, they might be able to hide from
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  human law, But they can't hide from God's law.
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  But, you know, you sit here and you look at this and you think this is awful.
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  Something has to be done.
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  Well, speak up against it like Kirk did.
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  And yes, you might end up with the same results that Charlie Kirk got.
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  Someone may take your life because you have stood up for Christ.
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  You know, there are worse things that can happen to you. So it takes a certain
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  amount of bravery, a certain amount of courage, and we're offered that courage
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  through the Holy Spirit.
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  The apostles were given that courage when they were hiding in the upper room
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  that allowed them to go out and preach the gospel to the world.
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  And for those of us of the Catholic faith, as we accept the graces of confirmation,
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  we're offered that same courage, that same grace.
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  This radio station, this is an example of the grace of courage from the Holy Spirit.
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  Here's a radio station on the air, 24 hours, seven days a week,
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  speaking out against the secular society and saying, you don't have to be like that.
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  You don't have to be focused on egotism, you know, through all the social media.
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  It's just amazing the amount of egotism that saturates that.
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  You don't have to be lured by wealth. You don't have to be lured by addictions.
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  There are other choices you can make. There are godly choices.
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  We're called to be Christ-like.
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  In Paul's letter to Timothy, in the second letter to Timothy in the first chapter,
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  Paul writes to Timothy, Beloved, I remind you to stir into flame the gift of
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  God that you have through the imposition of my hands.
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  For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather of power and love and self-control.
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  So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake.
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  But bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.
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  Take as the norm the sound words that you've heard from me in faith and love
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  that are in Christ Jesus.
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  Guard this rich trust with the help of the Holy Spirit that dwells within us.
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  The Word of the Lord. So here's Paul in his day saying the same thing that the church says today.
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  Have courage. Make better choices. don't be swayed by society.
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  Turn away from sin, turn toward Christ.
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  And so this message has not changed, nor has the teaching that.
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  Takes courage. You can't be a Catholic and be cowardly. You can't do both.
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  C.S. Lewis said, if you're looking for an easy way of life, don't choose Catholicism.
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  There's nothing easy about being an actual Catholic.
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  There's nothing easy about standing up for Christ's love, Christ's forgiveness.
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  It's a tough road. It's very demanding of you personally, and it's going to
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  make you look odd to a large part of society.
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  It is. And some people are going to see you so odd, they're going to think that
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  you need to be done away with.
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  And you wouldn't be the first martyr.
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  We've had martyrs for 2,000 years for the very same reason.
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  They just said, no, I'm not going to do it your way. I'm going to do it Christ's way.
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  And that actually made people angry. And I've had people say,
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  how could anybody want to kill Charlie Kirk? He never said anything bad about anyone.
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  He spoke what he saw as the truth. He never called anyone a name.
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  He never really, he didn't discourage anybody. He tried to encourage them into a better decision.
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  And yet they killed him. Well, they killed Christ. What did he do wrong?
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  Who did he attack? No one. And yet we, as a society, murdered God incarnate.
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  So, if you see that that could even happen to Christ, then you know it could happen to any of us.
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  It takes courage. Standing up for your faith is not something for the faint of heart.
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  Our gospel reading is Luke, and the apostles said to Christ, Increase our faith.
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  And the Lord replied, If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
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  you would say to this mulberry tree, Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you.
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  Who among you would say to your servant, who just came in from plowing or tending
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  sheep in the field, Come here immediately and take your place at the table?
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  Would he not rather say to him, prepare something for me to eat?
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  Put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink?
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  You may eat and drink when I'm finished.
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  Is he grateful to that servant because he did what was commanded?
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  So should it be with you. When you have done all you have been commanded to
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  do, say, we are unprofitable servants.
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  We have done only what we are obliged to do.
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  So there's really two parts to this reading. The first part,
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  quite short, is about...
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  The capability of faith. We all start with the faith of mustard seed from our baptism.
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  We have just enough faith to get us through our baptism, basically.
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  I mean, we know soon on in our Christian lives who Christ is, who God is.
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  We know about the miracles that we read about in the Bible. But have you ever parted a river?
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  No. Have you ever brought someone back from the dead? No, probably not.
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  Helped a blind man to see, a lame man to walk? No. Does that mean it didn't happen?
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  No. It just means that in comparison to the amount of faith that Christ,
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  the man God, had in God compared to our faith, what we have is minimal.
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  We have just enough faith to get by on.
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  Could we have better faith, bigger faith, more powerful faith?
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  Absolutely but how many of us make that effort,
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  I know priests I know one priest in particular left a grocery store with another
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  priest they'd done their shopping for their rectory and he sees a man sitting in a pickup truck,
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  and this acquaintance of mine went over and tapped on the window and had the
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  guy roll the window down and he said you're in a lot of pain aren't you just out of the blue.
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  And the man in the pickup said, well, yeah. And the priest said, you're going to be okay.
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  Christ is going to heal you. May I pray with you? And the fellow was just dumbfounded.
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  And the priest prayed with him and they exchanged names and talked about what
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  this man, he had some pretty severe medical issues.
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  And about a week later, the priest gets contacted by this fellow who he just
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  walked up to in the parking lot and said, I want you to know I'm okay.
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  Everything turned out fine. I went back for my doctor's appointment,
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  and what they thought was the problem wasn't there. It was something much,
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  much more minor and some simple medications, and I'm going to be fine.
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  He said, but when you came up to me in the truck, he said, I honestly thought
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  that I was going to die. He says, I was that sick.
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  And so, yeah, I don't know. I'm not ready to say miracle, but I'm ready to say
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  God's intervention, certainly.
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  I don't know that, I don't think it was ever put up for a miracle.
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  But I know that this priest has done this more than once, where he has offered
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  the sacrament of healing, and
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  it has taken a physical form where it truly physically healed that person.
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  So I think there are some people who are so strong in their faith that they
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  accomplish things that we can't even imagine us doing because we have so little
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  trust in ourselves and in our own faith that we aren't able to manifest these things.
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  But Christ is telling us in here it's possible and it's available to us,
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  but we have to exercise that faith muscle more.
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  And many, many, many of us don't do that.
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  I'll admit that I try to be a very, very faithful person. Have I ever helped
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  a miracle to happen? Not that I know of.
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  I don't think I could uproot a tree and have it replant itself.
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  But I believe Christ when he says I should be able to do that.
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  I could do that if I were able to bring my faith to that level.
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  The second part of this is about the story about the servant,
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  and it's not really against the master.
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  It's not saying the master is being mean by demanding that the servant wait on him.
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  It's saying that the servant realizes their humility.
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  They realize their responsibility.
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  The servant has agreed to serve. And if he does serve, he shouldn't brag and
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  say, look at me, I served. I served.
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  And you say, well, how does that tie into religion? Well, how many people do
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  you know say, oh, look at me. I go to confession every week.
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  Oh, look at me. I go to church every Sunday.
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  Oh, look at me. I go to adoration three times a week. Or I say the rosary every night.
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  And then somebody cuts them off in traffic and they shoot them the bird,
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  right? Or they swear at them.
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  Or they don't have good relationships with their neighbor.
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  You know, they carry a grudge against the neighbor for some minor offense.
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  Or they have poor relations with their own family.
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  Where's the love? Where's the forgiveness? Don't say, I do this for God and
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  then don't do what God asks us to do.
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  So that's really the message here is be modest. Don't think because you do these
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  things, you're better than other Christians.
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  No, you're doing the least of what's expected of you.
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  Your reward doesn't come here. It doesn't happen in this life.
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  That you don't get your accolades from other human beings.
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  Your reward comes from Christ, and it'll come at its own time,
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  and that'll be at your final judgment.
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  Something to consider, something to pray about, something to listen for as you study these readings.
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