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  <title><![CDATA[Deacon Michael]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Shadow System]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Every Catholic institution I have worked in or with has a shadow system.The business manager's Excel sheet of major donors, carefully maintained for years, beca]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Talking Points: Week of November 2, 2026]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The closing argument is a countdown - one hundred hours, one vote, one fix. The reality is slower. Here's what the data shows on the eve of the midterms.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[I Will Lose None of Them]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The souls of the righteous are in God's hand. Jesus says he will lose none of those the Father has given him. These are the same promise - and November begins with the Church staking everything on it.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Beatitudes for Election Day]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Eight ancient practices for a hard week.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Beatitudes Are a Training Manual]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[All Saints Day - November 1, 2026 St. Elizabeth Parish, Granite City, Illinois]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Running the Whole Course]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On integrity, shortcuts, and the person you become when no one's watching.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[He Who Began It]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Paul is confident that God will finish what he started. Jesus heals a man while his hosts watch in silence. Both are saying the same thing about how God works.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Go Tell That Fox]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Herod wants to kill him. Paul is in chains. Both of them keep going anyway - and neither one is pretending the cost isn't real.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[He Prayed All Night]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Before he named the Twelve, Jesus spent the entire night in prayer. He already knew. That is what makes the night so striking.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Marriage of Pleasure and Virtue]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On doing hard things with people you love - and why the best memories cost something.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Who You Hire Is Your Mission]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Three candidates for a parish administrator role. The parish hires the easy one. Six months later, the role isn't working. Here's why - and how to stop it.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stand Up Straight]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[She is bent over, held by a spirit for eighteen years. Paul says you were once darkness and are now light. The woman standing upright is what that looks like in a body.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Paul lists everything Christians share. Jesus asks why the crowds can't read what's right in front of them. The list is the answer.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Called by Name: What John Paul II Taught About Personal Mission]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the Memorial of St. John Paul II, a collection of his most powerful words on the vocation each of us carries.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fire on the Earth]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Paul prays that you be filled with all the fullness of God. Jesus says he came to bring fire. These are the same thing.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Least of the Holy Ones]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Paul calls himself the least of the holy ones. The steward is found doing his job. Both are saying the same thing.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mission Statement You Already Have]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There is a little booklet on a shelf in our family chapel - the small space in our basement where I go for morning and evening prayer. I didn't remember putting]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Talking Points: Week of October 19, 2026]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The midterm talking points are simple: costs are up, blame the other side. The reality is more complicated. Here's what the data shows - and what's missing.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mission Statement for the Parish Secretary You Are Trying to Hire]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Two parish secretaries on day one - one a stranger, one in the pews for twenty years - both fail the same way. The mission statement is why. And the hire you're trying to make is the second half.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Whose Image Is On You?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Caesar takes and keeps. God receives, transforms, and returns. On World Mission Sunday, a homily on the difference between two economies - and what you give.]]></description>
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