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When I was in high school, I attended a Catholic Seminary (an unregistered endangered species) in Toledo, Ohio. Daily Mass was a part of our routine at Holy Spirit and I estimate that during that time I heard approximately 1,500 s...
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When I was in high school, I attended a Catholic Seminary (an unregistered endangered species) in Toledo, Ohio. Daily Mass was a part of our routine at Holy Spirit and I estimate that during that time I heard approximately 1,500 sermons. Add to that Sunday Mass pretty much all my life, weekday Mass during College (also in a seminary), Holy Days, weddings, funerals, and sundry other ordinary Masses, I have heard at least 5,000 sermons in my lifetime. There are some that I can almost repeat by heart because, quite frankly, I heard them repeated often enough. Others are burned into memory because of what was said, or when/where it was said. For example, I remember the voice, the context, and some of the theme from a sermon that Pope John Paul II preached during a Mass I attended with hundreds of thousands of my fellow Catholics outside Soldier Field in Chicago. One from my high school days has stayed with me in particular; it was preached by our rector (principal) on the need to live a life of active charity. Father Nick Weibl used a story that came from Russian Orthodox folk tradition, and was also recounted as the story of Grushenka in The Brothers Karamozov.
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