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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God has made you for freedom from anxiety over the unforeseeable future, the unchangeable past, and your present responsibilities.

Many people are overwhelmed by anxiety. Anxiety over all the things that need to get done and over all that they have been through. But God calls us to have no anxiety at all. And to surrender our past, present, and future to His dominion..

Mass Readings from October 4, 2020:
Isaiah 5:1-7
Psalms 80:9,12,13-16,19-20
Philippians 4:6-9

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0:00.0	So I recently came across this story of these two men who played in the NBA back in like
0:06.8	the 50s.
0:07.8	One of them, his name is Jack Twine and Jack was, he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
0:13.4	and kind of a remarkable story that even in high school he didn't make the team.
0:17.5	He went on those kind of situations, kind of a Michael Jordan-esque kind of situation
0:20.9	where he was cut from the team as freshman year, his, his, his, his, his junior year.
0:25.8	And then finally, after like all this practice, he had this regime where he would get up and
0:29.5	do you know 100 jump shots, he did 200 free throws, he did this kind of like you know 300
0:34.2	shots from the free point line.
0:36.4	Finally this high school senior made the team and then played basketball on college.
0:40.3	And then finally got drafted by the Cincinnati Royals after college.
0:46.3	He and Wilts Chamberlain tied to be the, they're the first people ever in the NBA to average
0:52.1	over 30 points a game.
0:53.1	So we like a remarkable guy.
0:54.6	He is in the Hall of Fame.
0:56.2	Jack Twine is his name.
0:57.2	He had a, he had a teammate on the Cincinnati Royals whose name was Maurice Stokes and
1:02.3	Maurice Stokes.
1:03.3	If Jack Twine had had a work for stuff like Maurice Stokes was incredible.
1:06.6	This remarkable.
1:07.6	He was probably, he was alleged to be at least the, in his era, the best player that had
1:14.7	ever up to that point played.
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