27th Sunday of Ordinary Time—October 7, 2018
Opening the Word
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7m 23s
The readings for today focus on God's vision of marriage—a clearly hot topic in our culture. Today the Church invites us to peacefully meditate on what the Lord proposes to be the meaning of marriage. And as we'll see, God created marriage to reveal the very meaning of our existence, and it is very good!
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