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Mar 2024
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Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent.

You don't have to find God's will in this moment and these circumstances...this moment and these circumstances are God's will for you.

The greatest lesson that anyone of us can learn is simple, but it is not always easy: you can trust God in every moment and all circumstances.

Mass Readings from March 17, 2024: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalms 51:3-4, 12-15Hebrews 5:7-9

John 12:20-33

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