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  <itunes:subtitle>Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You just have to start. The first step is the most difficult…but it is also the most important.</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from October 13, 2019:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; 2 Kings 5:14-17&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalms 98:1-4&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;2 Timothy 2:8-13&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;Luke 17:11-19&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/the-hardest-step-the-first-step.pdf"&gt;Download the Homily Study&lt;/a&gt; 
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