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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"><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"><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,
in today’s Gospel <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Jesus is sitting at supper with his disciples</b></span>, the
core of the Church, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>on the last night of his life on earth. </b><b>Jesus prays,
“I pray not only for these, but also for those who will believe in me
through their word, so that they may all be one.”</b></span></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(255,242,204)"><b>What
precisely are the bonds of unity within the body of Christ? What are
the elements that foster Christian unity? </b></span>I would first mention the
credal expressions of the one faith of the Apostles. At every Sunday
Mass, Catholics stand to profess together<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> the Nicene Creed,</b></span> in all of
its verbal and conceptual complexity, recapitulating thereby the
victories won in the early Church by the advocates of<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> the apostolic
faith </b></span>over those who would compromise it. </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">I
would mention as well <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the liturgy</b></span> and <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the sacraments</b></span> and <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>devotional
practices</b></span>. We are one in the measure that we participate together in
common worship and in common means of accessing the divine
life. We are united, too, in our commitment to the brothers and sisters
through <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.</b></span> And finally, we are
one through <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>our shared structure of order which comes from the Apostles.
</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><br></b></span><br><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:normal">Through these various means, we become saints, people whose lives are about one thing.</span></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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