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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> after Jesus names his twelve Apostles in today’s Gospel, </b><b>he heals a 
multitude of people.</b></span> And that multitude represents us, for <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><u>we all </u>stand 
in need of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the Savior’s healing touch.</span></b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><br></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 style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>We
 are made for love and connection and justice and nonviolence,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>but at 
every turn and in every way we are</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>twisted in the direction of hatred, 
separation, injustice, and violence.</b></span> We are, as St. Augustine put it, 
wandering in the land of dissimilitude and in the grip of the </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:italic">libido dominandi</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">.
 The contemporary philosopher René Girard has reminded us that all of 
our social arrangements are marked by scapegoating and oppression. </span><br><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(217,234,211)"><b>The
 human race is best characterized as <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">a </span></b></span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">dysfunctional spiritual family, 
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">all of us</span> having been marked <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">from birth </span>by the effects of sin.</span> </b>Sin has 
found its way into every aspect of human life, personally and 
institutionally. We would be hopelessly naïve to think otherwise. </span><br><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">And
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> so <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we </span>need, </b></span>not just a philosopher or social theorist or political 
activist or military hero, but<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> a Savior, someone who can break into <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">our 
dysfunction </span>from the outside and heal us.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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