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March 1, 2020March 1, 2020

First Sunday in Lent

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First Reading: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7
Responsorial: Psalm 51:3-6, 12-13, 17
Second Reading: Romans 5:12-19 OR 5:12, 17-19
Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11

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As we begin our first Sunday of Lent, we tackle an important social condition that is perhaps at the very core of the spiritual crisis today.

In the first reading from Genesis, we come to the temptation in the Garden, and indeed our second reading is a reflection on this first temptation which lead to the first – the original sin. This is a very important point. Too often we talk about the original sin, but before there was a sin, there was a temptation. What was the first temptation?

As you read the first reading which you’ll find near the bottom of the notes for today’s reflection, I want you to carefully read the interaction between the serpent and Eve. You can almost hear the conversation, can’t you?

What happened in the first chapter of Genesis? God created and he said it was good. Now in chapter two, the serpent says to Eve, “Good? You’re not good! You’re human! Look at you! You’re filthy. You’re disgusting! No, you are not good. But if you want to be good, then you need to eat the fruit of this tree. In fact, if you eat the fruit of this tree, you won’t just be good – you will be like God – no – you will be gods!”

What is the first temptation?

The first temptation is to reject the goodness of God’s creation. We buy into the voices whispering in our ears that we can’t be good. And that leads to the next big temptation – to be gods. What do gods get to do? Gods get to decide right from wrong; good from bad. So, if I do as the first humans did in the Garden – if I turn my back on what God asks of me, then I will be in control and I get to decide good from bad – right from wrong.

We are bombarded all day long with a myriad of voices. It’s impossible to tell the good from the bad. It’s all too easy to give in to the voice we think is good and embrace ourselves – our intellect – our wealth – our accomplishments, and convince ourselves that what we have is the ultimate good.

This, I think, is what Satan tempts Jesus with in today’s Gospel. If Jesus would just turn his back on God, then Jesus can become a god on earth, and he can have untold riches. It will be okay because as a god, Jesus will decide what is right from wrong. He can say that rejecting God’s voice isn’t bad and doing whatever you want whenever you want is good.

This is the at the very heart of relativism. What’s good for me doesn’t have to be good for you. Why? Because in my house, I’m god. In your house, you’re god. So, your rules can be different from mine. There is no such thing as moral Truth. It’s live and let live. And that idea is, quite frankly, intoxicating. But truth is that nothing – not wealth or sex or power or drugs or alcohol – nothing can fill the whole in our hearts except the love of Jesus Christ.

And what do we do with that love? We share it with others. As disciples, our task is to help build God’s Kingdom on earth. So, as disciples we strive to use the gifts and talents we have been given – to develop the best version of ourselves to give people hope and to help make the here and now a better place for everyone.

Is that easy? Is living a life totally in touch with our gifts and talents and totally following the will of the Father easy? No. The experience of the cross tells us that the path for the disciple is not only difficult, but it can be dangerous. But the question before you and before me is about our eternity. No wealth can save us. Only Jesus can save us. So, especially during this season of Lent, we should listen more intently and try to discern not only God’s voice among the myriad of voices we hear, but we should also try to identify and, with the help God provides through our guardian angels and the saints, reject the voices of the enemy. Like our psalmist, we turn to God and we cry out, “Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.”

Homework! Nourished by the Word of God and by the Eucharist, I ask you to reflect on the following two questions this week.

First, If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. How do I test God’s love for me? How can I grow in trust of God?
Second, Behold, angels came and ministered to him. How have I felt God’s care this week? How can I share God’s loving care with those in need?

Do you got it? Do you get it? Good! Now go make disciples! May almighty God bless you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit! +Amen!

References:

Lectio Divina Of The Gospels. Washington, D.C.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2019.
Mitch, Curtis and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.
The Bible: A Study Bible freshly translated by Nicholas King. Buxhall, Suffolk UK: Kevin Mayhew, 2013.

Catechism References: Easily search the Catechism at http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

Temptation of Jesus, 394, 538-540, 2119
“Lead us not into temptation”, 2846-2949
Jesus and the angels, 333
Seductions of the devil, 394-395
The Fall, 385-390, 396-400
Adam, Original Sin, Christ the New Adam, 359, 402-411, 615

First Sunday of Lent
Lectionary: 22
Mass Readings: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030120.cfm

Reading
First Reading Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7
The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground
and blew into his nostrils the breath of life,
and so man became a living being.

Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,
and placed there the man whom he had formed.
Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow
that were delightful to look at and good for food,
with the tree of life in the middle of the garden
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals
that the LORD God had made.
The serpent asked the woman,
“Did God really tell you not to eat
from any of the trees in the garden?”
The woman answered the serpent:
“We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;
it is only about the fruit of the tree
in the middle of the garden that God said,
‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.’”
But the serpent said to the woman:
“You certainly will not die!
No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it
your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods
who know what is good and what is evil.”
The woman saw that the tree was good for food,
pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.
So she took some of its fruit and ate it;
and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her,
and he ate it.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened,
and they realized that they were naked;
so they sewed fig leaves together
and made loincloths for themselves.

Responsorial
Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17
R. (cf. 3a) Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.
Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
R. Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.
For I acknowledge my offense,
and my sin is before me always:
“Against you only have I sinned,
and done what is evil in your sight.”
R. Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.
A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.
R. Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.
Give me back the joy of your salvation,
and a willing spirit sustain in me.
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.
R. Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

Second Reading
Romans 5:12-19 OR 5:12, 17-19
Brothers and sisters:
Through one man sin entered the world,
and through sin, death,
and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned—
for up to the time of the law, sin was in the world,
though sin is not accounted when there is no law.
But death reigned from Adam to Moses,
even over those who did not sin
after the pattern of the trespass of Adam,
who is the type of the one who was to come.
But the gift is not like the transgression.
For if by the transgression of the one, the many died,
how much more did the grace of God
and the gracious gift of the one man Jesus Christ
overflow for the many.
And the gift is not like the result of the one who sinned.
For after one sin there was the judgment that brought condemnation;
but the gift, after many transgressions, brought acquittal.
For if, by the transgression of the one,
death came to reign through that one,
how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace
and of the gift of justification
come to reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.
In conclusion, just as through one transgression
condemnation came upon all,
so, through one righteous act,
acquittal and life came to all.
For just as through the disobedience of the one man
the many were made sinners,
so, through the obedience of the one,
the many will be made righteous.

Brothers and sisters:
Through one man sin entered the world,
and through sin, death,
and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned.

or if, by the transgression of the one,
death came to reign through that one,
how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace
and of the gift of justification
come to reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.
In conclusion, just as through one transgression
condemnation came upon all,
so, through one righteous act,
acquittal and life came to all.
For just as through the disobedience of the one man
the many were made sinners,
so, through the obedience of the one,
the many will be made righteous.

Verse Before The Gospel
Matthew 4:4B
One does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.

ospel
Matthew 4:1-11
At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert
to be tempted by the devil.
He fasted for forty days and forty nights,
and afterwards he was hungry.
The tempter approached and said to him,
“If you are the Son of God,
command that these stones become loaves of bread.”
He said in reply,
“It is written:
One does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes forth
from the mouth of God.”

Then the devil took him to the holy city,
and made him stand on the parapet of the temple,
and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down.
For it is written:
He will command his angels concerning you
and with their hands they will support you,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.”
Jesus answered him,
“Again it is written,
You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.”
Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain,
and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence,
and he said to him, “All these I shall give to you,
if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.”
At this, Jesus said to him,
“Get away, Satan!
It is written:
The Lord, your God, shall you worship
and him alone shall you serve.”

Then the devil left him and, behold,
angels came and ministered to him.

February 23, 2020February 22, 2020

Growing in Love and Holiness

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Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Readings

First Reading: Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18
Responsorial: Psalm 103 1-4, 8, 10, 12-13
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:16-23
Gospel: Matthew 5:38-48

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/022320.cfm
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In today’s readings, Jesus continues to challenge the people about what fulfilling the Law means. Fulfilling the Law doesn’t mean doing the absolute minimum or following the pagans who subscribe to retributive justice, like an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. In Leviticus, we hear that God holds the people to a higher standard of conduct. “Be holy for, I the LORD your God am holy,” (Leviticus 19:2). And so, doing just the minimum isn’t gonna cut it.

Jesus explains that to be holy like God is to strive to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect, (Matthew 5:48). What does that mean? That means we need to imitate the perfect love of our heavenly Father, who himself is love, (1 John 4:8).

Let’s look at what that means from the perspective of a married couple. Think about a story you’ve read or a movie or a show which was set in feudal times where there was an arranged marriage planned between an older lord and a young lady. Maybe this was done for some political or monetary advantage right. Well this is probably the dramatic setting of the story that will be resolved by a knight in shining armor who comes along to save the fair maiden. Right? Why? Because this idea of a marriage without love or romance is so depressing.

And a couple cannot grow in love unless that love is challenged by the stuff – the messiness of everyday life. It’s only through a couple growing in love and patience and kindness that they can to one another and, “I screwed up,” “I’m sorry,” and, “I forgive you.” Does that make sense?

Jesus tells us that image of growth in love should be applied not just to our spouses, but by all believers, to everyone all the time everywhere. It’s not enough to subscribe to the idea of an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth. That’s what it means to grow in love and holiness – what it means to emulate the Father.

That’s what St. Paul is talking about in his letter to the Corinthians. It seems like the church there is on the verge of splitting. It seems like the church is being pulled apart by different factions. Boy does that sound familiar. It sounds like our countries and even the Church itself are on the verge of being pulled apart by different factions in our own age. And we risk being pulled apart if we can’t look across the aisle with the love and the compassion of God.

Now these readings which challenge us to grow in love and holiness are particularly important this weekend. Why? Because we’re about to start our Lenten journeys and part of the exercise of Lent is to challenge ourselves to grow. Lent is a great opportunity to do what so many businesses do: pause and do some strategic planning. It’s a time to reflect on what’s worked, what hasn’t worked and what they need to do in the future. Each of us is challenged during Lent to look at our past year honestly – with a critical eye. What did we do this last year? What did we do well? Where did we go wrong? What do I need to change in my life that what will help me grow?

How do I do this? I can grow with the power of the Holy Spirit, and with the strength I draw from the sacraments. As I reflect on my life, I can bring to the Sacrament of Reconciliation those sins or root causes of sin in my life that are preventing me from growing or that are damaging my relationship with God. That leads us to our Lenten sacrifice.

A Lenten sacrifice should challenge us to grow spiritually. Let me suggest that what that can’t be is giving up chocolate. Let’s say you’re the type of person who kicks the dog or bites your sister, or maybe you bite the dog or kick your sister. How will giving up a piece of chocolate like a Dairy Milk help you overcome a sinful pattern in your lives? I don’t think it will. We need to dig deeper and figure out what will challenge me to grow in holiness.

Maybe this year you could go to mass every Sunday? Or maybe you could go to adoration for one hour every month? Maybe you could set aside a little time to pray – I mean really pray to Jesus. What I mean by that is sitting down and just trying to have a conversation with him. You can start out by saying you don’t know what you’re doing or if he’s listening – that’s okay – but just opening yourself up a little to talk with Jesus could be a start. But if we are going to grow in love and holiness, we have to start somewhere.

Homework! Nourished by the Word of God and by the Eucharist, I would like you to reflect on the following two questions.

What are the things in my life that are preventing me from growing in love and holiness?
What is my Lenten sacrifice going to be?

I think doing our homework will help prepare us for Lent so that we can grow in the love and holiness of God. Do you got it? Do you get it? Then go make disciples! May Almighty God bless you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit! +Amen!

References:

Lectio Divina Of The Gospels. Washington, D.C.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2019.
Mitch, Curtis and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.
Montague, George T. SM. First Corinthians. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2011.
The Bible: A Study Bible freshly translated by Nicholas King. Buxhall, Suffolk UK: Kevin Mayhew, 2013.

Catechism References: Easily search the Catechism at http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

Jesus, Lord of the world, 450
Church as temple of the Holy Spirit, 797
Purgatory, 1030-32
Christian perfection, 1693, 2013
Love of enemies, 2303, 2844

Resources:

Learn more about being a Christian steward: http://usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/stewardship/index.cfm

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 79
Mass Readings: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/022320.cfm
First Reading Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18
The LORD said to Moses,
“Speak to the whole Israelite community and tell them:
Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy.

“You shall not bear hatred for your brother or sister in your heart.
Though you may have to reprove your fellow citizen,
do not incur sin because of him.
Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against any of your people.
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
I am the LORD.”

Responsorial
Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13
R. (8a) The Lord is kind and merciful.
Bless the LORD, O my soul;
and all my being, bless his holy name.
Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits.
R. The Lord is kind and merciful.
He pardons all your iniquities,
heals all your ills.
He redeems your life from destruction,
crowns you with kindness and compassion.
R. The Lord is kind and merciful.
Merciful and gracious is the LORD,
slow to anger and abounding in kindness.
Not according to our sins does he deal with us,
nor does he requite us according to our crimes.
R. The Lord is kind and merciful.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he put our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
R. The Lord is kind and merciful.

Second Reading
1 Corinthians 3:16-23
Brothers and sisters:
Do you not know that you are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person;
for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.

Let no one deceive himself.
If any one among you considers himself wise in this age,
let him become a fool, so as to become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God,
for it is written:
God catches the wise in their own ruses,
and again:
The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise,
that they are vain.

So let no one boast about human beings, for everything belongs to you,
Paul or Apollos or Cephas,
or the world or life or death,
or the present or the future:
all belong to you, and you to Christ, and Christ to God.

Alleluia
John 2:5
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Whoever keeps the word of Christ,
the love of God is truly perfected in him.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel
Matthew 5:38-48
Jesus said to his disciples:
“You have heard that it was said,
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil.
When someone strikes you on your right cheek,
turn the other one as well.
If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic,
hand over your cloak as well.
Should anyone press you into service for one mile,
go for two miles.
Give to the one who asks of you,
and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.

“You have heard that it was said,
You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
But I say to you, love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you,
that you may be children of your heavenly Father,
for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good,
and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have?
Do not the tax collectors do the same?
And if you greet your brothers only,
what is unusual about that?
Do not the pagans do the same?
So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020

ATC 5 Caring for Creation

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Welcome to another edition of All Things Catholic. I’m your host, Deacon Rudy Villarreal and I’m so glad you’re here! Together we are going to explore what it means to be Catholic. Today as we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the 5th anniversary of Laudato Si’, we’re going to begin a discussion about what it means to be a Christian living in right relation with God and his creation. By the way, if there’s a topic you’re interested in learning more about, please let me know. Send me an email to rudy@deaconrudysnotes.org or by using the comment form on the website www.deaconrudysnotes.org.

I’ve got to tell you, I’m still glowing from a pilgrimage to Lourdes and a most excellent birthday weekend in London. We all need downtime. The Gospels give us many examples of Jesus going away from the crowds that followed him, often with a small group of his closest disciples, to get away for prayer and rest. If you haven’t been on a spiritual retreat or pilgrimage, I highly encourage you to consider it. There are many reputable retreat and pilgrimage opportunities out there that range from highly visible faith leaders on the world stage who draw from large, national audience, to locally organized events. Check with your parish office to learn how you can find out more about retreats in your area and pilgrimages being organized from your area.

So, why this topic? Well, a few months ago, I really stepped into it on Twitter @deaconrudy. A priest had made comment that his diocese was really pushing all parish religious education classes to study Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, but to his disappointment many of the students didn’t know the most basic prayers of our faith tradition. He suggested that we should be spending more time with learning our prayers.

My reply was that while that it is a tragedy that so many children are not being taught their prayers at home, for the Catholic it’s not either or – it’s not either prayers or creation, it’s both/and. In other words, living out our faith is the real testimony of our academic knowledge.

Well, one of his other followers did not agree with me. She replied that global warming, the global environmental crisis is simply not true. I don’t want to misstate what she said, but the gist was something along the lines that it is wrong for the Church to get politically involved especially in such a fiction.

My reply back to her was that for the believer, it’s not really about global warming. It’s about living out our faith every hour, every minute every second of the day in a way that is consistent with what we say we believe.

And this went on for a little bit – some back-and-forth comments and comments of support that I received from others in the Twitterverse. But that really started me thinking that I personally need to do more with trying to help bridge this gap. The Church isn’t about one perspective or another, and it’s not about saying I like pious types of activities so I’m going to do that or I like social justice so I’m going to do that. It’s all of that together. It’s about experiencing the Catholic faith intellectually, spiritually and practically. So I need to do more about connecting those dots and that’s where this idea for this particular episode came from and I suspect that we’ll do several more over the course of this next year as we mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the 5th anniversary of Laudato Si’.

Before we jump into theological waters, it’s important to not allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the enormity of the subject. It’s like trying to think about the national debt where you live. It’s really easy to be overwhelmed by the problem and convince yourself there’s nothing you can do about it, and so you do nothing. Pope Francis warns us that merely focusing on the accumulation of data can lead to overload and confusion and that can lead to inaction, (LS, 47). There’s nothing I can do on my own about it, right? Ok, hold on to this idea for just a second.

Next, I want you to think your relationship with the people around you – your spouse, if you’re married, your children, your roommates, your coworkers, people who share your commute. Don’t we expect to be treated with respect and for those around us to share with us whether it’s a spot on the train or space on the highway, or in our personal relationships, don’t we expect some level of sharing? In the spousal relationship, for example, therapist will tell us its unhealthy to place conditions on the relationship or extort our partner in some way. We expect our children to share with their siblings and with other children on the playground or in the classroom. You get the idea, right?

So, how do we get from the idea of sharing to the idea that it’s ok to litter or after we change the oil in our cars, that we can dump the old oil in the stream behind our house? Exploiting nature isn’t really consistent with the way we try to live and the way we try to raise our children – setting aside products we use or the energy or water we consume. So, if we expect more from our spouses and children, and neighbors, and friends and coworkers and even complete strangers, then we can expect more of how the way we live impacts the environment.

Here’s an example from my home in Texas. Single use plastic grocery store bags were causing problems for ranchers in West Texas and fishery operators on the coast. Now the problem wasn’t about global warming and it wasn’t about petroleum and it wasn’t about landfills. The problem was that these bags were ending up in and around livestock – in feeders, clogging up machinery, etc. Worse, some of the livestock would eat the bags which could harm them. These communities began to ban single use plastic bags. It was a simple solution to a real problem that within the realm of what these communities could do.

Unfortunately, the State of Texas has made it illegal for local communities to initiate such ordinances in its current un-Christian and un-Catholic war against local governance. That’s a-whole-nother story that we will revisit in a future episode, but here’s my point. It doesn’t take some global calamity for us to recognize an injustice, like harming livestock, considering viable solutions for that specific problem and implementing solutions and of course evaluating the solution and mitigating against unintended consequences. That’s normal problem solving at the community level.

But there’s a catch. It requires action on our part. Pope Francis points out that the way self-destructive vices work in our lives is that we tend to try to not see them. Maybe we pretend these vices aren’t happening or we pretend these vices are not so bad and that nothing will happen because of this vice, (LS, 59). But vices do have an effect on us, right? The righteous pursuit of justice is a process of conversion.

As we prepare to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the 5th anniversary of Laudato Si’, we need to remember that justice takes some time and some commitment. That’s part of what it means to live in right relation with God and his creation.

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For those of you who’ve been listening to the weekend edition of deacon rudy’s notes, you know I’m a huge fan of homework. So, I’d like to begin adding some homework to All Things Catholic. Your homework is to read this weekend’s readings before you get to mass. It’s helpful to read them through at least once. That not only helps us pay better attention to the readings as they are proclaimed, but it also prepares us to listen to the homily.

There are many free resources out there that organize the readings for you, but if you’re not sure where to go, you can check out the free resource offered by the US Catholic bishops. If you enter “USCCB readings” into your favorite browser, you find a link to their webpage that includes a calendar. You can pick the day and then see the readings for that mass. I’ll include a link in the podcast notes. So now you have no excuse – your homework is to go check out the readings for the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Do you got it? Do you get it? Good! Now go make disciples! May Almighty God bless you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit! +Amen!

I’m Deacon Rudy Villarreal and next time on All Things Catholic, at the request of one of our faithful listeners in Switzerland and in the light of the Pope’s post-synodal exhortation on the Amazon, “Querida Amazonia”, we’re going to talk about change. The Second Vatican Council’s document, Gaudium et spes, calls on the laity and the Church to “recognize the signs of the time,” (4). What does that mean and how exactly does that work?

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This episode was produced by deacon rudy’s notes. Our theme music was composed by Silent Partner. You can find all sorts of helpful information on the website at www.deaconrudysnotes.org. I’m your host, Deacon Rudy Villarreal. Join us again next time and don’t forget to watch for the weekend edition where we break open the Word. Peace!

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