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		<title>Homily &#8211; Respect Life Sunday (27th in Ordinary Time) 2011</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2011/10/03/homily-respect-life-sunday-27th-in-ordinary-time-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“…whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”  These words are from our second reading today. It is unusual for our Sunday readings to be as direct as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=478&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homily &#8211; Feast of the Epiphany &#8211; 2011:  Be The Light!</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2011/01/04/homily-feast-of-the-epiphany-2011-be-the-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As kids, we all learned that song, “We Three Kings”. No, not the one that we sang this morning, but the one with the kings and the rubber cigar. (We Three Kings of Orient are/Trying to smoke a rubber cigar/It was Loaded, it exploded/That’s how we traversed so far!) And now everybody will have those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=396&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birth Control &#8211; The Pill &#8211; Why use contrapcepton? Why Not? &#8211; by Dr. Janet Smith</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2010/12/11/birth-control-the-pill-why-use-contrapcepton-why-not-by-dr-janet-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ll go back to requiring listening to this talk for all my premarriage preparation.&#160; Deanna, your English-speaking folks would benefit from it too. I *dare* all my married and in-relationship friends to listen.&#160; It don&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re Catholic; the reasons for *not* doing this thing to your body don&#8217;t have anything to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=395&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent Cycle A (2010) &#8211; Repent!</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2010/12/07/homily-for-the-2nd-sunday-of-advent-cycle-a-2010-repent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel reading is here (but not yet&#8230;do y&#8217;all listen? This is what delays my uploads!). Homily audio is here (again, it’s slightly different from the written; I’d be interested in any comments &#8211; Later.  I&#8217;ll post it later). Introduction “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” That’s what John the Baptist told the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=392&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Challenge!</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2010/11/30/social-media-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brothers and sisters: Pope Benedict XVI has asked us as the Church to make more and better use of the social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.) to further our efforts in the New Evangelization first outlined by Pope John Paul II.&#160; God knows that many,if not most, of us are very connected to one another.&#160; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=391&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homily, 32nd Sunday in OT: &#8220;What Are We Afraid Of?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2010/11/13/homily-32nd-sunday-in-ot-what-are-we-afraid-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What, exactly, are we living for? And what, if anything, are we willing to die for? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=379&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homily &#8211; 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2010 &#8211; Why Be Thankful?</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2010/10/15/homily-28th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-2010-why-be-thankful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gospel is here. Homily audio is here. Why Be Thankful? Having “an attitude of gratitude” is polite.  When someone opens a door for us, we’re expected to say “thank you”; when we do something nice for someone and they don’t thank us, we get a little huffy.  For most of us, this is an attitude [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=370&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homily &#8211; 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time &#8211; &#8220;Where&#8217;d You Go?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2010/09/15/homily-24th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-whered-you-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Chip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gospel audio is here. Homily audio is here (listen to it; it&#8217;s a little different from the text below, but I&#8217;m too lazy to transcribe the changes!). “Where’d You Go?”   GPS is a wonderful thing!  You can just put the address you’re trying to get to into that puppy, hit “Navigate”, and turn by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=365&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homily &#8211; Assumption 2010:  There&#8217;s Something About Mary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2010/08/23/homily-asumption-2010-theres-something-about-mary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Audio of the Gospel reading is here.  Audio of the below homily is here. With absolutely NO reference to the film by the same title, I must say, “There’s something about Mary”.  There’s something about Mary, the Mother of Jesus, which makes some people just crazy.  There’s something about Mary, Mother of the Church, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=352&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He&#8217;s Baaaaaaack!</title>
		<link>http://deaconchip.net/2010/08/17/hes-baaaaaaack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It;s a shame when life gets so busy that one neglects the things one really benefits from. I have made a solemn commitment to myself to start blogging again; I&#8217;ll start with last Sunday&#8217;s Homily as soon as possible. Heck, I think I&#8217;ll even upload the audio! Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deaconchip.net&amp;blog=4271739&amp;post=348&amp;subd=deaconchip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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