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    <title><![CDATA[Letter to Matthew (The Public Version)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On seeds, silence, and the son you release]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What We Released This Weekend]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and the work I was made for]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Four Days, Four Altars]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On weekday Mass, Confession, and what happens when you show up]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Granite City Man Sat Down With Fulton Sheen]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On an old article, a kindred spirit, and the beatification ahead]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What the Sabbatical Is Teaching Me]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On stepping back, saying no, and seeking first the Kingdom]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Morning He Left]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On last weekends, blessings, and letting go]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Spring Water]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On trout streams, sabbaticals, and coming to rest]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Guard Slipped]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On trimming, sabbaticals, and the work ahead]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ordinary Time]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On rest, re-entry, and rightly ordering our days]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pentecost Happened]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What I preached, what I learned, and a word I should have used]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Are We Building?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 14:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Reading Pope Leo XIV on artificial intelligence]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Bird at the Window]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sunday Night as our weekly Holy Hour started, when I was kneeling to chant O Salutaris Hostia, I could see a bird flying around the window above the sanctuary.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Upper Room]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On waiting, writing, and what the Spirit has not yet sent]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The End Is Where We Start From]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." - T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Slower Steps]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What runner's knee is teaching me about humility and prayer]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Answer is a Person]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Thomas asks a perfectly reasonable question.
Jesus has just said, "Where I am going, you know the way." And Thomas responds: "Master, we do not know where you]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Paying Attention]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On endings, beginnings, and a boy who noticed]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[He Calls You By Name]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["He calls his own sheep by name."
It's easy to skip over that line. But stay with it.
Jesus doesn't manage a flock. He doesn't track a herd. He calls each she]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Clarity Feels Like]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A weekend full of ministry - and the deepest peace I've felt in years]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stay With Us | #2MinuteHomily]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[2 Minute Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter]]></description>
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