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<b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends,
<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> today’s Gospel develops a theme that is uncomfortable. It tells how the
 people of Nazareth rejected Jesus. </b></span>Authentically religious people, 
authentically spiritual people, will almost
always be opposed. The logic behind this is simple and unanswerable: we 
live in a world gone wrong, a world turned upside down; therefore, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>when 
someone comes speaking the truth to us, we <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">will think that they are 
crazy and dangerous.</span></b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Think
 for just a moment <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>what would happen to</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>you if you consistently and 
publicly spoke the word of God to our culture. If you spoke out against 
</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, human trafficking, rampant 
materialism, and ideological secularism, what would happen to</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>you?</b></span> If 
you presented, in a full-throated way, the full range of Catholic social
 and moral and
spiritual teaching, what would they do to you? Trust me, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>they would 
throw you in a version of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jeremiah</span>’s cistern. </b></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b>

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