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Nov 29, 2005

Volume 122, Issue #24

Lectionary

Mercy, me (2 Peter 3:8-15a)

Mercy is not what we’re about, and I suspect we don’t want our God to be about it, either.

Standing on the promises: Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11; Psalm 126; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-8, 19-28

Some 50 years ago, Merton warned us about what can happen when “all words have become alike.”

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