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Oct 2024
15m 22s

Answering God’s Call

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, all three readings for this Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time have a golden thread running through them, which is the idea of the call—of the primacy of God’s action in the life of salvation. Whenever we start thinking that this is our own ego project and that we are in command, we are ipso facto on the wrong path. 
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