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🗓️ 6 September 2020
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Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
How do Christians fight?
We all have experienced the temptation to see someone who has failed or someone who has hurt us as a non-person. But taking responsibility for the people in our lives means fighting that temptation. And it means doing what we can to fight for that person.
Matthew 18:15-20
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0:00.0 | So a little while back, I came across this article that was written by a man named David |
0:05.4 | Brooks in the New York Times. |
0:07.6 | He had, he had David Brooks wrote this article based off of a podcast that he had watched |
0:12.2 | or listened to on NPR. |
0:14.6 | And it was this really fascinating story I thought was fascinating. |
0:17.2 | And so did he. |
0:18.2 | He said, actually, as he listened to this podcast, it stuck with him for so long. |
0:21.2 | He just haunted him. |
0:23.2 | It's the story of this young woman. |
0:25.2 | She was a punk. |
0:26.2 | She was a lead singer of a punk rock band. |
0:28.4 | She was a punk. |
0:29.4 | A lead singer of a punk rock band. |
0:30.7 | And one of her best friends, a man who was a best friend in the band with her, threw on |
0:35.7 | the way to a gig. |
0:37.5 | And on their way, the venue called ahead of time and said that they were canceling the show. |
0:43.2 | And the reason they gave was because there was someone who had an allegation against this |
0:46.7 | man in a band, the her best friend, that said that he had sent an unwanted and explicit, |
0:53.0 | an appropriate picture of himself to someone. |
0:58.1 | And so he denied it. |
1:00.8 | And the other, the men in the band were like, whatever, we don't think this is true. |
1:04.9 | But she took it really seriously and she got back home. |
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