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  <description><![CDATA[Faith, family, work, and life — all intertwined]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Bird at the Window]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sunday Night as our weekly Holy Hour started, when I was kneeling to chant O Salutaris Hostia, I could see a bird flying around the window above the sanctuary.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Upper Room]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On waiting, writing, and what the Spirit has not yet sent]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The End Is Where We Start From]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." - T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Slower Steps]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What runner's knee is teaching me about humility and prayer]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Answer is a Person]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Thomas asks a perfectly reasonable question.
Jesus has just said, "Where I am going, you know the way." And Thomas responds: "Master, we do not know where you]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Paying Attention]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On endings, beginnings, and a boy who noticed]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[He Calls You By Name]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["He calls his own sheep by name."
It's easy to skip over that line. But stay with it.
Jesus doesn't manage a flock. He doesn't track a herd. He calls each she]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Clarity Feels Like]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A weekend full of ministry - and the deepest peace I've felt in years]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stay With Us | #2MinuteHomily]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[2 Minute Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mercy Through Wounds]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Of all the things Jesus could have done with his resurrected body, he chose to keep the wounds.
Why?
Because those wounds are the source of mercy. Those wound]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What's Next]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Leaving Adobe, building Domus, and stepping into the deep]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[From the Tomb, New Life]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Reflections on my fourth Triduum as a deacon]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Wound He Kept]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily for Divine Mercy Sunday]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Day Between]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A meditation on Holy Saturday]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[One Liturgy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily for Holy Week]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[When Did We Lose Our Humanity?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A banner on a fence - and the answer the Church gives this week]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[At the Right Hand]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[During the Eucharistic Prayer, as the priest raises the sacrifice to the Father, I stand to his right. 
 It's my proper place. The rubrics say so.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Next Week Changes Everything]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily for Palm Sunday]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Go to Joseph]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A small banner and a daily reminder]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Day Four]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Why Jesus waited until it was "too late." #2MinuteHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent]]></description>
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