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We were talking about--

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I went to a class today,
a wonderful class.

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Are any of you guys here?

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Who I was with?

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Hi.

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Hi, everybody.

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Hi.

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It's good to see you again.

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We were talking about
the ordinary time.

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This last book I wrote is called
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time,

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and it came from
a number of ideas.

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But when I was
growing up, I grew up

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in a very Roman Catholic--
lefty Catholic, but Catholic

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nevertheless-- home.

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Sort of Dan Berrigan Catholic.

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And I loved reading
the missal every Sunday

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and seeing this period
of time that was

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coming called ordinary time.

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And there was the swaths of
time, you might remember,

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between the High Holy seasons.

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Ordinary time, first
Sunday of ordinary time,

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second Sunday of ordinary time.

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So the Prologue to this
book speaks to that.

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"The rules, once again, applied.

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One loaf equaled one loaf.

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One fish equaled one fish.

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The so-called Kings were dead.

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And the woman who
had been healed

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grew tired of telling her
story, and sometimes asked

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her daughter to tell it.

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People generally
worshipped where

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their parents had worshipped--

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the men who had
hijacked the airplane

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prayed where the dead
pilots had been sitting,

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and the passengers
prayed from their seats.

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So many songs went up and out
and into the thinning air.

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People, listening and
watching, nodded and wept,

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and, leaving the theater,
one turned to the other

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and said, what do
you want to do now?

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And the other one
said, I don't know.

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What do you want to do?

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It was the Coming
of Ordinary Time.

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First Sunday, second Sunday.

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And then-- for who
knows how long--

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it was here."

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