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Message From Fr. John...

To my dear St. John Neumann Parish family: 

Both the prophet Baruch and the Gospel speak of mountains being made low and valleys or gorges being filled to level ground in preparation for the coming of the Messiah.  For pilgrims traveling to their heavenly homeland, mountains can be great obstacles to overcome and valleys can be traps or places of ambush.  For people of faith they can represent the obstacles that we ourselves place before the Lord to prevent his coming to us.  They need to be removed, but God himself helps us to remove them if we cooperate with his grace.  Places of ambush or traps for us are the temptations that we encounter on our journey.  They are the near occasions of sin that  lead us to be tempted and fall into sin,  These two should be removed in our preparation to receive the Lord at his coming.  And again the Lord by his grace helps us to remove them if we seek and cooperate with his grace.

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