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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

In our Second Reading for today, St. Paul writes with startling confidence: “Who will separate us from the love of Christ?” He then lists hardships that can feel overwhelming—“tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword.” And yet the Apostle does not end in despair. He adds, “in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us,” and he finishes with an even greater assurance: “neither death nor life… nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:35, 37-39)

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