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The holy gospel of our Lord

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Jesus Christ, according to

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Matthew.

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Bishop Knisely:
Glory to you, Lord Christ.

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Jesus said, whoever welcomes you

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welcomes me, and whoever

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welcomes me welcomes the one who

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sent me.

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Whoever welcomes a prophet in
the name of a prophet will

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receive a prophet's reward.

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And whoever welcomes a righteous
person in the name of a

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righteous person will receive
the reward of the righteous.

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And whoever gives even a cup of

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cold water to one of these

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little ones in the name of a

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disciple.

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Truly, I tell you, none of these
will lose their reward.

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The gospel of the Lord.

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Bishop Knisely:
Praise to you, Lord Christ.

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May I speak to you in the name

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of God, who is father, son, and

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Holy Spirit.

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Bishop Knisely:
Amen.

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Amen.

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Go ahead and now be seated.

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One of the things you learn

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really early on when you're

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ordained is that people sort of

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look at what you're wearing and

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behave differently.

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I notice that if I have to fly
and I'm wearing clericals, if

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I'm in my black suit or a purple
shirt and I go to get on the

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airplane, people are either
going to be really happy I'm

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sitting beside them or they're
going to be very uncomfortable.

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People will sort of scooch away
from you in line at Dunkin

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Donuts and at McDonald's.

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It's a whole thing, trying to

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order your Big Mac and your

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French fries.

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People project on you because of
what you're wearing.

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And you learned that early on.

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As clergy, and sometimes that's
helpful.

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And sometimes that can be a
challenge.

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One of the things you notice
when you walk around inner city

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inner cities, and I, as a
priest, always served in inner

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city parishes, is that people
will see you walking by and

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depending on their
circumstances, will come up and

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want something from you.

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And sometimes that's wonderful.

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And sometimes it's like, oh, how

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am I going to disappoint you

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today?

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So when I was living in Phoenix,

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my wife and I are not very good

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cooks.

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And so we're really good at
getting prepared foods from

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little grocery stores.

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We love Dave's.

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I just got to tell you, we would

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starve to death if it wasn't for

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Dave's.

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But there was a version of
Dave's much smaller called Fresh

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and Easy in Phoenix, and I was
on my way home from the office

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and Karen was still at work and
she said, would you swing by

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fresh and easy and get some
dinner for us?

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And I said, sure, sure, sure.

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I'm trying to get in and out the
fresh and easy.

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That was close to where we were
living.

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It wasn't the best part of

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Phoenix and it was kind of

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sketchy.

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And I'm like, okay, I'll get in.

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I'll get into the place.

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It was a guy standing around

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outside looking at people and,

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uh oh.

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So I get out of the car, I go

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into fresh and easy, I get out,

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I don't know what it was

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probably something wonderfully

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healthy and fulfilling, like

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clergy eat.

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And and I came out of the store
and the guy looks at me and

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says, you're a priest, right?

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Like, oh, yes, yes.

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He said, I bought two of these.

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Take this one.

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And he gave me a bag of oranges.

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And I thought, well, that's not
what I expected.

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And I said, well, thank you.

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He said, no, no, no, no worries.

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And he walked off and I realized
he had done something for me,

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not because of any relationship
I had with him or anything I'd

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done to deserve it, or the
kindness I had shown him.

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He just did it for me because of

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a relationship I had with other

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people.

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I don't know, maybe it was
something in the air in Phoenix,

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but something similar happened
not too long after I came out.

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And one of the things you learn

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in Phoenix is because of the

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heat and everything and the

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thorns, you get a lot of flat

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tires.

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And so I came out to my car and
I had a flat tire.

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Oh. All right, well, I'm sitting
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I'll just pop the trunk, get the
spare out, change the tire, and

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I'm getting ready to do that.

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And, and I, I guess a guy was a
delivery driver saw me and said,

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father, father, let me change
your car tire.

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I said, no, no, I can do it.

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I'm fine.

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God bless you.

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Bishop Knisely:
Thank you.

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But I got this.

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No no no no no no. Your hands

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are the hands that serve at the

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altar.

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Don't get them dirty or hurt
them.

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Changing a tire.

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Really?

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I was not expecting that.

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And I tried to talk him out.

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He wouldn't hear it.

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He said, no, I want to change
your tire.

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So he changed my tire.

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He did a very good job of it,
and I'm trying to take out money

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and give him a tip or something.

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I said, please let me say thank
you.

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And he wouldn't hear a word of
it.

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He did that not because he knew
me, but because of who I knew.

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In the gospel reading today,

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Jesus is saying something very

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similar.

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He's saying that if you do

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something kind for someone

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because of the relationship they

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have with me, Jesus is saying,

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you shall get an extraordinary

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reward.

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He's talking in a crowd of
people and he's talking about

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the little ones.

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You think he's talking about
children?

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The best we can tell from the
text, he's not.

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He's talking about the disciples

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and the apostles who were with

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him as he's going about

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teaching.

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And he says to the larger crowd,

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look, if you give even a cup of

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cold water, That's not very much

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right?

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That's a pretty easy lift for
most of us.

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If you give even a cup of cold
water to one of these people

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because of their relationship
with me, then you will receive a

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reward that is great in heaven.

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How do you feel about that?

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Because you're one of the little
ones.

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Think about that, right?

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What if someone came up and
said, hey, you're a member of

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Saint Peter's, right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Have a cup of water on me.

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What would you think?

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Right?

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You belong to Jesus.

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If we could see you as the
angels see you.

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We'd see the shining cross
that's there on your forehead.

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That was put there when you were
baptized.

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And the priest drew the sign of

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the cross in holy oil on your

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forehead.

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If we could see with the eyes of
angels.

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We'd see the cloud of white

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light that surrounds you simply

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because you are one of the

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baptized.

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I mean, wow.

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What if you could see each other
that way?

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Or what if you could see the
people that you meet every day

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and see in them the image of God
that they carry simply because

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they are human?

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The Pope talks about in his
latest encyclical, The

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Magnificence of Our Humanity.

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And he's referring to artificial
intelligence.

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But but I think he's also just

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making the point that one of the

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things that's extraordinary

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about our incarnate selves, our

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fleshy human nature, is that we

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carry the image of God within

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us.

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And because we carry the image

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of God, We look like Jesus to

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the universe.

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We all do.

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Simply by being human.

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It's extraordinary when you
think about what it means to be

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made in the image of God, and
the recognition that the rest of

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the universe gets a blessing
simply by our presence in it.

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Now, you'd think we'd live up to
that, right?

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And we'd live our lives in such
a way that the relationships we

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have would typify the blessing
that we are to other people.

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But we don't always do that.

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I was looking at the comment
section of the New York Times

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articles this morning.

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I should not do that before I go
to church.

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There was not a whole lot of
recognition of the image of God

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in those comments.

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I got to tell you.

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People were arguing and they

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were biting, and they were

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pulling at each other just as we

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humans do.

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And in spite of all that, we are
still made in the image of God.

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But what would it be like if we

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could actually live our lives

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that way?

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What would it be like if we

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actually saw each other as being

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created in the image of God, and

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treated each other with that

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kind of respect and dignity that

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is ours, not because we deserve

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it, but because of who we are in

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relationship with.

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I mean, that's kind of the point
of the ecclesia.

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The word ecclesia is the word
Paul uses for church.

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He uses it in Romans a number of
times.

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It's not a new word.

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He's not making it up.

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Ecclesia is a Greek idea, and it
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And it's usually described by

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the teachers and the

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philosophers as being a

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fractious bunch.

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When an ecclesia is gathered,
you know, there's going to be

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arguments and there's going to
be pushing and shoving.

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And Paul uses that word for
church.

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We tend to dress it up and we
make it into ecclesiastical and

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we use fancy language.

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But but it really just means a
crowd of grumpy people.

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And that's what Paul was

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describing and is describing all

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of us.

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And yet, because we're part of

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that crowd, if someone gives us

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a drink of water because we're

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part of that crowd, they get an

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extraordinary reward.

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You know, it's not like what it
was with Abraham, who had to put

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everything on the line for his
faith with God.

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Everything, everything he had
been told, everything he

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believed, everything he and
Sarah had hung their hopes on.

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He was asked to put on the line
for God.

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And that faith is what makes him
a hero.

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A hero whose memory has been
preserved for all this time.

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We have it much easier or much
harder.

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I don't know, because we have to
do an easier thing and believe

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that the same consequence
applies for us.

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We're celebrating our two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary

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as a nation later this week.

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Hooray!

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We're not all excited about it.

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It's not like seventeen or
nineteen seventy six.

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I remember what the Bicentennial
was like.

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I'm older than I look, and I
remember how we got dressed up

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and the way we celebrated it for
the whole year.

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And here we are in the two
fiftieth, and I feel like my

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daughter, who probably won't see
the three hundredth, is getting

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cheated because she's not seeing
the same thing.

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It's a moment.

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We're divided.

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We are at each other's throats.

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We're biting and sniping and
pulling at each other.

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Just like in the comment
sections of The New York Times.

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And yet that Ecclesia is all
made in the image of God.

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You want to heal that?

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Try treating each other as if

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their dignity is not dependent

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on what they say or do or how

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they behave, but simply because

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they exist.

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And they were created in the
image of God from the beginning.

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I have noticed it changes you.

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That guy who changed my tire
changed my whole week because I

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saw myself differently.

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I don't usually think of myself

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as a person who serves at the

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altar.

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I think of myself as the person
who worries about how we're

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going to pay the bills.

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He didn't see me that way, and

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because he didn't see me that

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way, I started to see myself, at

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least for a little while, in a

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different way.

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The guy who waited around
outside the grocery store.

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I've never forgotten it.

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Clearly.

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What if you people of Saint
Peter's could change?

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Maybe not the whole nation.

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Just change your neighborhood.

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Just change your neighborhood by

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treating each other as people

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who are worthy of dignity and

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respect.

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Not because of how you vote or

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what you believe, or the flags

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you fly or anything else like

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that.

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But simply because you are a
human being and you are a child

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of God, and you glow with light
by virtue of your baptism, and

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there is a shining cross on your
forehead that the angels can see

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and long to witness.

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What if just being human is
enough?

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That would be something.

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It might change your day.

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Amen.

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Bishop Knisely:
Amen.