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		<title>A Sword Will Pierce Your Own Soul Too</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; In the first two reflections this month, Mary spoke. At the Annunciation, she asked a question from within her own reality before she said yes. In the Magnificat, she named the world she and her people knew and proclaimed its reversal without flinching. At Calvary, she is given no words. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pilgrimage to Knock in Our Jubilee Year</title>
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		<title>Proclaiming the Magnificat</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; In our second reflection on Mary, we move from the Annunciation to the Magnificat — from the question she asked before her yes, to the proclamation she made after it. Mary proclaims the Magnificat in someone else&#8217;s house, in the early weeks of a pregnancy she had not planned, to a woman who is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Can This Be?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the remaining Fridays of May, this month that is given over to Our Lady, we will reflect with Mary through three moments in Scripture where her life meets uncertainty, truth, and grief. At the Annunciation, Mary hears words she could not have prepared herself to receive, and her first response is a question: &#8220;How [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Standing at the Threshold</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Robertson - OLA Communications Officer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scripture: Luke 19:37–40 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.” The final days of Lent bring us to a crowded road. Palm branches are raised. Cloaks are spread across the ground. The air carries expectation. Yet within days, the voices will shift. Praise will give way to accusation. Welcome will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ordering the Heart</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Robertson - OLA Communications Officer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scripture: John 12:24 &#8220;Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.&#8221; By the fifth week of Lent, something has been happening; slowly, beneath the surface of daily life. Listening has trained our attention. Fasting has exposed the habits [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Renewal Within Community</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Robertson - OLA Communications Officer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scripture: Nehemiah 9:1–3 “They stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.” In the Book of Nehemiah, the people gather to hear the Law read aloud. They stand together. They remember their history. They speak honestly about where they have failed. The moment is shared. No one stands outside it. Lent carries [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Discipline of Speech</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Robertson - OLA Communications Officer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scripture: James 3:1–12 “The tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits.” (James 3:5) Words shape the world we inhabit. In his message for Lent 2026, Pope Leo XIV names a form of fasting that is often overlooked: abstaining from words that offend and harm. He places the discipline of language alongside [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fasting as Reordering Desire</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Robertson - OLA Communications Officer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scripture: Isaiah 58:6–9 “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice…?” (Is 58:6) Fasting can easily become reduction: less food, fewer comforts, smaller habits, but scripture widens the meaning. Through the prophet Isaiah, God challenges a form of fasting that leaves structures of injustice untouched. Abstaining from food while [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Listening as the Beginning of Renewal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Robertson - OLA Communications Officer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scripture: Exodus 3:1–12 “I have observed the misery of my people… I have heard their cry.” (Ex 3:7) Lent begins with attention. In his 2026 message, Pope Leo XIV places listening at the heart of renewal. Before fasting, before repentance, before action, there is listening. It’s a deliberate making of space, a turning toward. At [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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