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 2024 Homilies
 
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+Satan loves the darkness.
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+It is where he works.
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+His tools are lies, deceit, and trickery; things that are only effective in darkness.
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+In our Gospel, Jesus uses the images of light and darkness to show the reality of our world.
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+Darkness is not something created, it comes about as an absence of light.
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+Darkness happens when a creature withdraws from God: pushing the light away, brings about darkness.
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+We see how this works in our own lives.
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+We were made to be communal creatures, connected to God and to each other.
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+When we withdraw from those relationships, things break apart.
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+Secrets divide us, depression grows through isolation, aggression heightens with discord.
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+Sin begins with disunity.
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+When God enters into our lives, it is as light shining in the darkness.
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+Secrets are exposed, lies are uncovered, and the difficult work of healing broken relationships, begins.
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+Again, we have seen this in our own lives.
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+Those little feelings that something isn't right, the anxiety that comes creeping in as the euphoria of sin wears away.
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+That's God speaking to us, calling us to leave the darkness, and enter the light.
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+To rekindle that relationship with Him.
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+God gives us perfect and complete attention at all times, and we begin to enter the light, by giving some of our attention back.
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+At mass, in confession, daily prayer, reading the scriptures, acts of service, learning about our faith.
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+In all those ways, we live in the light.
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 3-03
 1.
 The temple was built on a mountain.