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Sep 2021
14m 21s

We Just Don’t Get It

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, let us rejoice whenever the grace of God is on display. The point of the sacraments is so that God’s grace may flood the world, but the Lord can operate outside of our formal structures. He desires these gifts for us, but as the creator of them, he is never limited by them.

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