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Dec 2024
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12/22/24 Face to Face: Fear to Fiat

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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

I'm not going to fear what I don't know, I am going to trust who I do know.

We can wait in excitement and joy...we can also wait in fear. We fear the dark and might fear death for the same reason: the unknown. We can fear the unknown in the afterlife and we can fear the unknown of our own inner life. God's mercy leads us to a place of trust.

Mass Readings from December 22, 2024: Micah 5:1-4 Psalms 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19Hebrews 10:5-10

Luke 1:39-45

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