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Apr 2025
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Unintentional Intentionality

Father Michael O'Loughlin and Mother Natalia
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This week Mother Natalia talks about intentionally incorporating Jesus into our lives. She gives two examples of this in action in her own life, in embroidery and running, and how she was able to come to a prayerful understanding of that in her own life.


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