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I take a journal with me to Mass, because if I don't take a few notes homilies fly in one ear & out there other. To Fr. Riccardo's first point, Christmas & Easter are usually the two flimsiest preaching days of the year, with homilies full of platitudes delivered without much conviction. I don't envy our priests the job of preaching to the Christmas-&-Easter-only crowd, but take courage & inspiration from Saint John the Baptist or Saint Peter's Pentecost preaching (Acts 2).

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Thank you so much for the great article highlighting some of the great things happening in southeastern Michigan!

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" 'It's not like they went to unbelief class.' "

This is excellent and heartening advice. I often approach these kinds of situations with the unconscious worldview that everyone around me is a hardened atheist and/or materialist, but when I actually to engage with people, I'm reminded that most people simply live an unexamined life, assuming the attitudes that the culture teaches them. Yes our default cultural millieu isn't Christian anymore, but the persons living in that environment are still open to conversations. Thank you for this observation, and for the article in total!

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