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Sep 2021
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Have You Stopped Listening to Jesus?

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus travels outside of Israel and heals a man of his deafness. Today, we live in a realm of spiritual deafness. We are bombarded with voices from outside, echoing around us until we are as incapable of hearing as the man from our Gospel. Like him, look to Jesus to heal you so that you might hear the word of God and understand hi ... Show More
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