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    <title><![CDATA[I Was Blind and Now I See | #2MinuteHomily]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[How Far Will You Let It Take You?]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[No Backup Plans]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On faith, uncertainty, and stepping into the unknown]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily: He Waited]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Third Sunday of Lent - The Woman at the Well
God keeps showing up for people who don't deserve it. The Israelites grumbled in the desert - He gave them water a]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Names We Carry]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On patrons, identity, and who's interceding for you right now]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Come Back Down]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[2 Minute Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Launching Lent]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily for Ash Wednesday & the First Sunday of Lent]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Let Your Yes Mean Yes]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A Homily for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dust and Dreams]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Preparing for Lent in a season of building]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Every Hat on the Rack]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What I'm learning about wearing all the roles at once]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Formation House for the Domestic Church]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last night I sat down with Suzanne, Joseph, and Andrew to walk them through what I've been working on - family meeting style. Thomas and Matthew are next. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Let Your 'Yes' Mean 'Yes']]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In this Sunday's Gospel, Jesus goes deeper than the Law—teaching that it's not enough to avoid murder or adultery or false oaths. God cares about what's happening in your heart. And he ends with this: "Let your 'Yes' mean 'Yes,' and your 'No' mean 'No.'"]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[You ARE the Light - So Stop Hiding It]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Notice what Jesus says: "You ARE the light of the world." Not "try to be the light." Not "work really hard to become the light someday." You ARE the light. Right now. By your baptism.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Disneyland Gave Me for the Second Half]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On clarity, flywheels, and the formation house I didn't know I was building 
 For months, I've been praying for clarity and courage. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Beatitudes Are a Mirror, Not a Checklist]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We read the Beatitudes like a spiritual to-do list. Be meek. Check. Be merciful. Check. Be a peacemaker. Check. 
 But that misses the point entirely.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stop Waiting]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["At once they left their nets and followed him." "Immediately they left their boat and their father." 
 Not "let me think about it." Not "after I finish this project." Not "once my life is in order." 
At once. Immediately.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Offering the Miles]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Somewhere around mile eight, I hit the Presentation again. 
 I run with a finger rosary. It's the only way I've found to pray consistently through a half marathon - my mind wanders, my legs burn, but my thumb keeps moving bead to bead.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Name Before the Work]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It was the summer of 1994 when I kept my vigil in the Order of the Arrow. 
 The OA is Scouting's honor society - you don't apply; your peers select you.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Walking Main Street with Purpose]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There's a moment at Disneyland that gets me every time. 
 You walk through the tunnel beneath the train station, the sounds of the outside world fading behind you. And then you emerge onto Main Street, U.S.A., and the world opens. The castle rises in the distance.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Pivot to the Real]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I send at least one handwritten note every week. 
 It's slow. It's inefficient. It can't be scaled. And it lands differently than anything digital ever will]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Seeds That Form Us]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I've been thinking a lot lately about the little moments that shape who we become. 
 It started with a conversation in the car. My son asked me something from his Civics class about speeding tickets]]></description>
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