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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[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[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[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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    <title><![CDATA[Mercy Through Wounds]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Of all the things Jesus could have done with his resurrected body, he chose to keep the wounds.
Why?
Because those wounds are the source of mercy. Those wound]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Wound He Kept]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily for Divine Mercy Sunday]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[One Liturgy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily for Holy Week]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Next Week Changes Everything]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily for Palm Sunday]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Day Four]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Why Jesus waited until it was "too late." #2MinuteHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[I Was Blind and Now I See | #2MinuteHomily]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[How Far Will You Let It Take You?]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily: He Waited]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Third Sunday of Lent - The Woman at the Well
God keeps showing up for people who don't deserve it. The Israelites grumbled in the desert - He gave them water a]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Come Back Down]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[2 Minute Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Launching Lent]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily for Ash Wednesday & the First Sunday of Lent]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Let Your Yes Mean Yes]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A Homily for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Let Your 'Yes' Mean 'Yes']]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In this Sunday's Gospel, Jesus goes deeper than the Law—teaching that it's not enough to avoid murder or adultery or false oaths. God cares about what's happening in your heart. And he ends with this: "Let your 'Yes' mean 'Yes,' and your 'No' mean 'No.'"]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[You ARE the Light - So Stop Hiding It]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Notice what Jesus says: "You ARE the light of the world." Not "try to be the light." Not "work really hard to become the light someday." You ARE the light. Right now. By your baptism.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Beatitudes Are a Mirror, Not a Checklist]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We read the Beatitudes like a spiritual to-do list. Be meek. Check. Be merciful. Check. Be a peacemaker. Check. 
 But that misses the point entirely.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stop Waiting]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["At once they left their nets and followed him." "Immediately they left their boat and their father." 
 Not "let me think about it." Not "after I finish this project." Not "once my life is in order." 
At once. Immediately.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jesus's First Message Wasn't About Shame]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We hear "repent" and think guilt and shame. But Jesus meant something completely different. 
 #2MinuteHomily for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: Matthew 4:12-23]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[#2MinuteHomily: Behold!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Behold! The Lamb of God. #2MinuteHomily]]></description>
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