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    <title><![CDATA[November Lessons]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On falling leaves, the four last things, and what I learned at a bedside.]]></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[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[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[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[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[The Case for Staying]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A response to "just go somewhere else"]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Five Things Blessed Fulton Sheen Taught Us About the Mass]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I wore my Holy Hour stole to Sheen's beatification - the one I wear every Sunday evening at our parish's hour of Adoration. They asked us to wear white. Mine was more gold. But I figured a man who spent 60 years before the Blessed Sacrament would understand.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Week in the Church]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[ICSC Conference, Sheen Beatification, Pope Leo in France, 40 parishioners diving into the Mass, teenagers showing up. Something is happening.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Heading to New Orleans]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The 64th International Catholic Stewardship Council Annual Conference]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Year We Were Held Back]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the parable of the workers in the vineyard]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Standing With Her]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Is Actually Asked of You]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The most common thing Catholics get wrong about dying is believing the Church requires them to endure everything medicine can do. It does not, and it never has. What is actually permitted, and what to do about it this week.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What We Remembered, What We Forgot]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Twenty-five years after September 11]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Exhausted Middle]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the quiet majority, the parish, and where healing actually starts]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What I Didn't Know I'd Feel]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On Matthew's graduation and the families who serve]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Aligned]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Three days at Disney World with Joseph]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What I'm Coming Back To]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On sabbaticals, solid selves, and staying]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The One Who Stays]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A reflection on Luke Burgis's "The One and the Ninety-Nine"]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[How we pray shapes what we believe shapes how we live]]></description>
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