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<b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;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:currentcolor none medium;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:currentcolor none medium;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:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;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 passage celebrates the faith of two blind men.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>To have
faith is—to use the current jargon—to live outside the box, risking,
venturing, believing the impossible<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">. </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>When we remain in the narrow
confines of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">our perceptions, our thoughts, or our hopes, we live in </span>a
very cramped way. </b></span>We become closed off to the
possibility that </span></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><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">sometimes, the power of faith is manifested in
spectacular and immediately obvious ways.</span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;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"> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>When someone consciously and
confidently opens himself to God, acting as a kind of conduit, the
divine energy can flow.</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>Faith
allows someone to live in detachment from</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> all of the ups and downs of
life.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>In the language of St. Ignatius of Loyola: "Lord, I don’t care
whether I have a long life or a short life, whether I am rich or poor,
whether I am healthy or sick."</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Someone that lives in that kind of
detachment is free, and because they are free, they are powerful. They
are beyond</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the threats that
arise</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>in the context of this world. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>This is the source of </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><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:italic">dynamis</span></b></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 style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>, of real power</b></span>.</span></b></b><br></span></div>
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