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		<title>AN EASTER MESSAGE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been on a journey for the past several weeks leading up to this day, to Easter and the celebration of Jesus&#8217; resurrection.
In a sense we have been on a journey together with the disciples to this moment, to this place, the empty tomb of Jesus.
The Lenten season and the events of Holy Week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it really ever &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; time ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Now that the Christmas season has concluded with the celebration of the Baptism of Our Lord, we return to what is known as Ordinary Time in the Church’s Liturgical Calendar. I have never really liked that expression “ordinary time”. I can’t help but think to myself, how can the Christ events that we celebrate in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUR GREATEST GIFT &#8211; A Christmas Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is an invitation to faith. It is not only a celebration of the Word Made Flesh – Emmanuel – God With Us….. it is an invitation for us to believe that God, at times directly contradicting the ways of the world, is alive and well and present in a world that needs Him so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Consider this</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose that most of us have, at one time or another, thought about how it would be if we came into a large sum of money ,what we would do with it and how it would change our lives. We might think this way after buying a lottery ticket or picturing the Publisher&#8217;s Clearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hang in there !!!!!</title>
		<link>http://ymworcester.org/reflection/2011/08/hang-in-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sure most of us have seen that poster with the picture of a cat hanging on to a rope that says: “When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on”
Some of us have adopted a saying – when things are not going too well for us – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflection on The First Pentecost &#8211;  How are we called ?</title>
		<link>http://ymworcester.org/reflection/2011/06/reflection-on-the-first-pentecost-what-is-our-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spirit of God &#8211; the Spirit that proceeds from the Father and the Son &#8211; creates and makes all things new &#8211; it makes us all changed in ways that God intends us to be changed. The Day of Pentecost ushered in a new age, the age of the Spirit &#8211; the age of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus is Risen ! He is truly Risen !</title>
		<link>http://ymworcester.org/reflection/2011/04/jesus-is-risen-he-is-truly-risen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second only to Jesus Christ is Ris’n Today and a Lithuanian Hymn – Linksma Diena mus nusvito  (A joyous day has dawned for us when death fell victim to new life) the hymn I know that my Redeemer lives , that dates back to the mid 18th century ,truly sums up the  meaning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent- A time for Reconciliation</title>
		<link>http://ymworcester.org/reflection/2011/03/lent-a-time-for-reconciliation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the very nature of things, life is filled with conflicts. However charming and mellow the people we live with may be, we inevitably have differences of taste, preferences, interests, goals, visions,&#8230;and whatever else. Because of that fundamental reality of the human condition, we have to become experts at the art of reconciliation. We have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not So Ordinary Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Ed</dc:creator>
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		<title>When the student is ready the teacher comes along.</title>
		<link>http://ymworcester.org/reflection/2010/09/when-the-student-is-ready-the-teacher-comes-along/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real teaching and real learning only takes place when the student is eager and open to receive. We read in Scripture  that Jesus, through the example of his own prayer, has made the disciples curious. They then make the request, &#8220;Lord, teach us to pray.&#8221; Having requested, they are eager to hear the response. [...]]]></description>
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