<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">Friends,
<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> in today's Gospel Jesus tells the crowds who seek a sign that they will
only receive the sign of Jonah: "Just as Jonah became a sign to the
Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation."</b></span></p>
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<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Jonah
is called by God to preach to Nineveh, which is described as an
enormously large city.</b></span> It takes, they say, three days to walk through
it. I can't help but think of<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> Nineveh </span>as one of our large, modern
cities, a center of all sorts of worldly activity and preoccupation.</b></span></p>
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<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>What
would its conversion look like? A turning back to God as the only
enduring good.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>After hearing the word of Jonah, the Ninevites proclaim a
fast, and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth. </b></span>What is the
purpose of these ascetic practices? <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>To wean people away from </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>an
attachment to worldly pleasures.</b></span></p>
<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><u>Go
beyond</u> </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the mind that you have</b></span>. <u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Repent.</b></span> </u>Live as though nothing in this
world finally matters. And you will be living in the kingdom of God!</p></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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