For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you should say. –Luke 12:12– Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand, for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute. –Luke 21:14-15– Here
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A Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A Father Bernard J. Ezaki Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. There are tears in our affairs, and things mortal touch the mind. –Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 1, Line 462– In 1867, Mark Twain took a cruise with some fellow Americans
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You are the light of the world. –Matthew 5:14– Imagine you are setting up luminaria for Christmas Eve. You have carefully positioned dozens of alternating red and green paper bags along your driveway and sidewalk, each bag containing a little sand and one candle. Now the sun is down. You
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