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support. Our Father, who art in heaven, howlowed be thy name.

Today we're going to be looking at our father who art in heaven, howlode be thy name.

The scripture passage, I'm going to make it make sense.

Every now and then I give homilies for the

sister of life or celebrate mass for them. And one of the sisters said, Father, I got to be honest, your homilies, sometimes I don't know where you're going, but then you always bring it in and it makes sense. So here's, I think, one of those. So stick with me here. We're going to Genesis chapter 32, starting at verse 13. The context here is, it's the story of Jacob and

Esau. As we remember, Jacob got the birthright. That was proper to Esau. And so Esau is mad at him.

So here's what's going on. So he lodged there that night, referring to Jacob, and took from what

he had with him a present for his brother Esau. 200 she goats and 20 he goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams, 30 milch camels goes on with a number of

these animals.

Then it says, then he delivered into the hand of his servants every drove by itself.

It said to his servants, pass on before me and put a space between drove and drove.

He instructed the foremost when Issa, my brother,

meets you, and asks you to whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose are these before you?

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