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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"><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"><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"><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> in our Gospel, Jesus speaks, with incredible bluntness, about cutting
off one’s hand and foot and plucking out one’s own eye. If these things
are a block to your salvation, get rid of them, for it is better to
enter life maimed than to <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">enter Gehenna </span>with all of your limbs and
members.</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><br></b></span><br><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">The hand is the organ by which we reach out and grasp things. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">The soul is meant for union with God</span>, but
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">instead we have reached out</span> to creatures,<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> grasping at</span> finite things <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">with all of our energies</span>.</span></b></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><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"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>The
Lord also speaks of the foot.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>The foot is the organ by which we set
ourselves on a definite path.</b> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>We are meant to walk on the path which is
Christ.</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> Do we? </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Or have we set out down a hundred errant paths, leading
to glory, honor, power, or plea<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><span></span></span>sure?</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"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>We
are designed to seek after and look for God. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>Have we spent <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">much of</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">our
lives</span> looking in<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> all the wrong places, beguiled by</span> the beauties and
enticements of this world? </b></span>And <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>are we willing to pluck out our eye
spiritually, to abandon</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>many of the preoccupations <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">that have given us
pleasure</span>?</span></b></span></span></b></b></b></b></span></b></b>
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