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<table style="font-size:13px;min-width:100%;border-collapse:initial" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr id="m_-6002253155249714460gmail-m_390845721897964601layout-row14490" class="m_-6002253155249714460gmail-m_390845721897964601layout m_-6002253155249714460gmail-m_390845721897964601layout-row m_-6002253155249714460gmail-m_390845721897964601widget m_-6002253155249714460gmail-m_390845721897964601_widget_html m_-6002253155249714460gmail-m_390845721897964601style14490" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><td id="m_-6002253155249714460gmail-m_390845721897964601layout-row-padding14490" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding:30px 30px 0px" valign="top"><table style="font-size:13px;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td id="m_-6002253155249714460gmail-m_390845721897964601html_div14116" width="590" align="left"> <p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">Friends,
today's Gospel is <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>the parable of the lamp, which placed on a lampstand
gives light to all. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Light obviously isn't for itself. Rather, we see
things by it. </b></span>It illuminates things upon which it shines.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>We
are light by which people around us come to see what is worth seeing. </b></span>
By the very quality and integrity of our lives, we shed light,
illumining what is beautiful and revealing what is ugly. The clear
implication is that without vibrant Christians the world is a much worse
place. Let me illustrate this principle with an example. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>One of the
most painful truths of the last century is that the weakness of
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Christian witness</span> allows some of the worst elements in society to
flourish.</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">Think
of<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> the rise of the evil powers that created WWII. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Christianity </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>had
become so weak, so uncompelling, so attenuated that great evil was
allowed to flourish. </b></span>Yes indeed there were a handful of powerful
Christian resisters, but <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>let's face it:</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the overwhelmingly vast majority
of </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Christians </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>either supported Hitler or remained in silence, either
out of fear or indifference.</b></span></p>
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