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<table style="font-size:14px;min-width:100%;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" width="650" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><td id="m_8818239991254402331gmail-m_-1794452772679625043layout-row-margin58400" style="padding:5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" valign="top"><table style="font-size:14px;min-width:100%;border-collapse:initial" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr id="m_8818239991254402331gmail-m_-1794452772679625043layout-row58400" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><td id="m_8818239991254402331gmail-m_-1794452772679625043layout-row-padding58400" style="padding:10px 30px 0px" valign="top"><table style="font-size:14px;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td id="m_8818239991254402331gmail-m_-1794452772679625043text_div57568" style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:12px;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.5;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Arial" width="580" valign="top" align="left"><div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> <div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px"><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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;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:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;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"><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’ hometown rejects him as a prophet. </b></span>And I want to say a word about your role as a prophet.<br><br>
When most lay people hear about prophecy, they sit back and their eyes
glaze over. "That’s something for the priests and the bishops to worry
about; they’re the modern-day prophets. I don’t have that call or that
responsibility."<br><br> Well, think again! Vatican II emphasized the
universal call to holiness, rooted in the dynamics of Baptism. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">Every </span>
baptized <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">person</span> is conformed unto Christ—priest, prophet, and king.
</b><b>Whenever <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">you</span> assist at Mass, <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">you</span> are exercising <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">your</span> priestly office,
participating in the worship of God. Whenever <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">you</span> direct <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">your kids</span> to
discover their mission in the Church, or provide guidance to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">someone</span> in
the spiritual life,
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">you</span> are exercising your kingly office.</b></span><br><br> <u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>As a baptized <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">individual</span>,
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> you</span> are commissioned as a prophet—which is to say, a speaker of God’s
truth. </b></span></u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>And the prophetic word</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>is not </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>your own.</b></span> It is not the result of
your own meditations on the spiritual life, as valuable and correct as
those may be.<u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> The prophetic word is the word of God given to you by God.</b></span></u><br><br><i style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px">Reflect: </i>How would you evaluate your role as prophet—that is, a speaker of God’s truth? </span></b></b></b><br></span></b></div><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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;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">
</span></b><div><table cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><table cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><i><span style="font-size:16px"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Krisztus lelke, szentelj meg engem!<br>
Krisztus teste, üdvözíts engem!<br>
Krisztus vére, ihless meg engem!<br>
Krisztus oldalából kifolyó víz,<br>
moss tisztára engem!<br>
Krisztus kínszenvedése, erősíts meg engem!<br>
Ó, jóságos Jézus, hallgass meg engem!<br>
Szent sebeidbe rejts el engem!<br>
Ne engedd, hogy elszakadjak tőled!<br>
A gonosz ellenségtől oltalmazz engem!<br>
Halálom óráján hívj magadhoz engem!<br>
Add, hogy eljussak hozzád,<br>
és szentjeiddel dicsérjelek téged,<br>
mindörökkön-örökké.<br>
Ámen.
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(Loyolai Szt. Ignác)</font><br></span></i></b></span>
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