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		<title>July 25, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just Living Thoughts on the First Readings -  Joe Frankenfield Genesis 18:20-32 “You’re going to be tempted many times to count the cost of love and ask yourself whether or not you’re getting your fair share of the pie. The biggest threat to marriage is the desire for fairness. The whole idea of fairness is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 18, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tending The Web Thoughts on the First Readings &#8211; Joe Frankenfield Genesis 18:1-10 “Always be nice to a stranger and help him if he needs you because he may be Jesus in disguise,” my grandmother used to say. Her thinking seems quaint now. We bridle at the image of God sneaking around to trap us. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 11, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First You Choose Then You Live Thoughts on the First Readings &#8211; Joe Frankenfield Deuteronomy 30:10-14 “Religion is really a very simple thing,” a fellow once told me. “Everyone knows what’s right. They just have to do it.” Except for reducing religion to morality, my friend’s comment is hard to disagree with – on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 4, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prophets Of Hope Thoughts on the First Readings &#8211; Joe Frankenfield Isaiah 66:10-14 “I’m taking my son out of his classroom,” the young mother told me, “his teacher is so negative. She constantly tells the kids what they do wrong but rarely what they do well. My son says that her favorite phrase is, ‘You’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 22, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Religion: For Our Sake &#8211; Not God&#8217;s Sake Thoughts on the First Reading &#8211; Joe Frankenfield Zechariah 12:10-11, 13:1 As we grabbed a moment of peace and quiet in a local coffee shop, I asked a friend of mine why he had left the Church. His answer was interesting. &#8220;Once I was riding through town [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 13, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s About More Than Forgiveness Thoughts on the First Readings &#8211; Joe Frankenfield 2nd Samuel 12:7-10,13 Many years ago a recent convert to the Church told me that joining up and receiving the sacraments had given him life-changing peace of mind. “How so,” I asked. “I had a lot of guilt over things I’d done,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 6, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Humility Of Mixed Motives Thoughts on the First Readings The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ  &#8211; Joe Frankenfield Genesis 14:18-20 A story on the CNN website recently told of evangelical churches banding together to resist recent anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona and to work against other states adopting similar laws. Cynics may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 30, 2010 Trinity Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trinity Reconcidered Thoughts on the First Readings &#8211; Joe Frankenfield Proverbs 8:22-31 When most of us learn about the Holy Trinity, our response is, Okay; if you say so. Many of us don’t move much past that. Numberless statements of popes, bishops and theologians not withstanding, the mathematics and internal makeup of God simply don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 23, 2010 Pentecost Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God&#8217;s Chosen People (Like Everyone Else) Thoughts on the First Readings &#8211; Joe Frankenfield Acts 2:1-11 I was three when my younger brother was born. For three years I’d been my mother’s, grandmother’s and aunt’s special little boy. Then one day I walked into the bedroom where my mother slept beside my brother’s crib and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 16, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christians At Ease? Thoughts on the First Readings Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20 John wrote his letter to the Christians in Asia Minor (today’s Turkey) to assure them of Jesus’ rescue from the hardships they were enduring under Rome’s emperors. Some of these folks faced social and economic ostracism; others, situations much more lethal. Rome didn’t [...]]]></description>
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