As we approach Christmas, our attention focuses on the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as the child of Bethlehem. As we listen to the Gospels, which tell us of the teaching of Saint John the Baptist, and as we hear again the story of the visit of Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary, our attention is concentrated on the coming of Christ. Today, our first reading from Isaiah, and the teaching given us by Pope Francis, remind us very powerfully of the importance of the Holy Spirit in the conception of our Lord, and his first recognition. The Angel Gabriel tells the Blessed Virgin that the Holy Spirit will overshadow her, and so she will become the mother of the Son of God. When the Blessed Virgin visits St Elizabeth, the Holy Spirit comes upon St John the Baptist in Elizabeth's womb to allow him to recognise the arrival of his Lord in the womb of the Blessed Virgin.
Our First Reading began with the proclamation of the prophet Isaiah. 'The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the poor.' This, of course, is the text which our Lord himself chose as the reading in the synagogue at Nazareth at the very start of his ministry. He applied it directly to himself as the one anointed by the Holy Spirit. This he had experienced at his baptism by St John in the river Jordan, when the Spirit descended on him in the bodily form of a dove. At the end of his life, just before his death on the cross, our Lord promises his disciples will themselves receive the Holy Spirit. This promise was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, when the whole community of Christian believers were filled with the Holy Spirit, to give them power to witness to the truth of the gospel, and to live the life of love. In his teaching, the Pope tells us that we are 'guests and pilgrims in the mystery of the Trinity. … It is because the Holy Spirit dwells in us; he is the one who transforms us deep within, and makes us experience the soul-stirring joy of being loved by God as his true children. All the spiritual work within us towards God is performed by the Holy Spirit.' Here the Pope is very clear that our Christian pilgrimage which is the whole of our Christian life, is guided and inspired by the Spirit. On that pilgrimage, we are transformed to make us fully like the children of God. At the same time, the Holy Spirit works in us, just as he did in the first apostles and disciples, that we may be effective witnesses to the gospel, and to the truth which Christ has revealed to us. By the Holy Spirit praying in us, we are filled with the power of God himself. The Pope has a wonderful picture of how this works: 'We are open books, willing to receive the Spirit's handwriting. And in each of us, the spirit composes original works, because there is never a Christian, who is completely identical to another. All are equal in dignity, but also unique in the beauty that the Spirit has willed to fill each one of us with.' So, this brings us back to the vision of Isaiah, 'The Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the poor.’ We, in our generation, are to bring that same good news to all those who are poor – not simply those who are poor in material things, but even more importantly, and more widely, to those who are poor in spiritual things. That is why the prophet continues, 'He has sent me to bind up hearts that are broken, to proclaim liberty to captives, freedom to those in prison; to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord.’ All these are deeply practical and deeply important. Ministries, which the Spirit gives us the power to fulfil. All of them are central to mission. All of them are central to attracting those who do not know the Lord to come into his presence, and rejoice in his family. May the Spirit of God so fill our prayer that we may truly and faithfully be witnesses to the Gospel of Christ. Immaculate Heart of Mary & St Dominic, Homerton Advent iii {B} 17.xii.23
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St John Mary Vianney is the patron saint of the parish priests of the whole world.
He was the parish priest of the small village of Ars in the middle of France for over 40 years. His was a ministry filled with the graces of God and the building up of the church. When he was a young priest, he used to go into Church to say Vespers in the late afternoon. He would see an elderly farm worker, kneeling in front of the Blessed Sacrament in the Tabernacle. He would not, apparently, be saying anything. St John Mary was puzzled, because here was a simple farm worker, whose only experience outside the parish might have been as a soldier in Napoleon's armies, kneeling in adoration before our Lord. St John Mary's visits to the Church revealed that the old man spent an hour every day in front of the Tabernacle. Eventually, St. John Mary plucked up the courage to ask him what he prayed about for so long a period of time. The old man replied, 'I look at him and he looks at me: occasionally we say a word to each other.' The old man's comment is a definition of what adoration is all about. We are asked this week to reflect on how we can deepen and broaden opportunities for people to participate in the prayer of adoration. We are also asked to link this thinking to serving others. At first sight, these two suggestions appear to be very different from each other. Adoration is all about prayer: service to others is all about action. All too frequently, we fail to link these in our Christian thinking, and our Christian practice. There is also the danger that adoration can be seen as something reserved for people who are truly holy. It is a great mistake to think that it is not there for every single Christian believer. We need to react to the challenge from St John of the Cross., whose feast we celebrate this week. One of his poems is very short., very direct, and very helpful to lead us on: With the divinest Word, the Virgin made pregnant, down the road comes walking, if you're grant her a room in your abode. St John asks us to put ourselves in the presence of the Blessed Virgin as she travels to meet St Elizabeth and to be greeted by St John the Baptist from the womb. Our Lady carries within herself the divine Word, our Lord Jesus Christ. As we meet her, she asks us to welcome Jesus into our hearts in loving adoration. This we can do most powerfully, and most successfully, when we come into the presence of Jesus Christ in the Tabernacle, and place ourselves in humble adoration before him. We don't necessarily need to use the picture which the Divine Mercy gives us, of the rays of our Lord's goodness and love reaching out from his Sacred Heart to meet us and enfold us. In placing ourselves in adoration before the Tabernacle, we can concentrate our attention on the way that we receive Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist. When we receive the Sacred Body, and drink the Precious Blood, our Lord remains within us. When we leave the church, when we go forth at the end of Mass, we carry Jesus Christ with us in our hearts, our minds, and our souls. That's the fruit of adoration. That's what gives power and strength and consistency to our Christian service for others. The presence of our Lord within us to shape our thinking, our speaking, and our doing is the way that we can give true Christian service to those whom we meet. Let's not deceive ourselves: Christian service does not need to be some sort of dramatic action or speech. By sharing the love and kindness and compassion of our Lord with those whom we meet, and those among whom we live, we serve their needs. We should remember that even a kind word, or a smile, may shed the light of Christ in a life which is dark with despair, or sin. If we deepen our adoration by coming to our Lord regularly in silent worship, then we build up seamlessly our service to others. The Immaculate Heart of Mary & St Dominic, Homerton Advent ii {B} 10.xii.23 Today we start a New Year in the life of the Church. The first Sunday in Advent should always be a challenge, and a joy, as we look forward to the extension of the Kingdom of God, and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. This year there are two pressing things that we need to think about. The first of these are the questions posed to us by our bishops as an outcome of the Synod in October. The second is the teaching which the Holy Father gives us as we enter this Year of Prayer, to prepare for the Jubilee in 2025.
Let me remind you of the first of the Bishops’ questions: ‘How can we create and promote space and time for prayer, with spiritual communion, for adoring God, and for listening and responding to God?’ I suggest that this fits very closely with the emphasis in Pope Francis teaching this week about the importance of thanksgiving to God in prayer. We all need at various moments in our Christian lives to think about how much time we devote to prayer, when we pray, and how we pray? This is a fulfilment of our Lord's command in today's Gospel 'Be on your guard, stay awake, because you never know when the time will come.' (Mark xiii 33) Prayer is that moment in our day, in our week, in the whole of our life, when we look to the Lord. Anytime we look to the Lord, we look to him to come to us. We may look for him to come to us to help us, to forgive us, to sustain us, at that moment. At the same time, all our prayer looks forward to his coming in glory at the end of time, when he will judge us – and, if he wills, admit us into the fullness and glory of his kingdom. In our prayer, we should never lose sight of the end of our lives in the fullness of Jesus Christ. So, each one of us is called today to look at our life, and at the conditions in which we pray. We may need to think about where we pray. Do we have that secret place which the Lord asks us to use? In which we may meet him without distraction and without reservation? Do we have the appropriate helps to our place of prayer? In things like the crucifix, the statues of the Saints, and the equipment for prayer, such as our rosary? Alongside this, we need to think very carefully about when we pray. Do we pray, as traditionally we would, in the morning, and immediately before we go to sleep? Those are the classic times of prayer., when we thank God for the new day, and thank him for the past day, repent of our sins, and seek his blessing through the night. The conditions of our personal life, particularly if we are part of a large family, may mean that we need to use different times if we are going to be able to give our mind and our soul completely to God in prayer. Alongside this. we have the Bishops’ question about Adoration, and listening, and the Pope's teaching about the importance of Thanksgiving. It is very easy in our daily prayers to miss out the element of adoration. This is very often because we find it a very difficult idea to get our heads round. Adoration is simply recognising God as God. It is putting ourselves in his presence, and reflecting deeply and sincerely on what he has taught us about his nature and being. We should do this anyway, when we make the sign of the cross at the start of our prayers. But all of us will need to do something more after that to make ourselves fully aware of the reality and wonder and splendour of God, to whom we come in our prayer. This is then the root of genuine and sincere Thanksgiving. We need to acknowledge before God his extraordinary goodness in making himself known to us, even in calling us into being in preference to so many other possible beings. None of us has a necessary existence. All of us are called into being by the love and goodness of God. It is very important that we acknowledge that before our Lord. Then we can move on to reflect on all the other good and splendid things with which he has surrounded us, and which He has given us in our character and abilities. Again, none of us has a right to any of these. They are the gift of a good and gracious God. It is right that we should acknowledge them, rejoice in them, and thank him for them. This list will run the complete range from the joy of a loving and supportive family through to very particular and personal moments, when we're conscious of the goodness of the Lord to us. It is all too easy to neglect these two important elements in our prayer. It is essential that we do not lose sight of them, but make them so part of our prayer, that they are never missing. It is through both adoration and thanksgiving that we acknowledge God as God and know him to be our Lord and our Saviour. The Immaculate Heart of Mary & St Dominic, Homerton Advent i {B} 3.xii.23 This is a statement by the Patriarchs of Jerusalem: The Holy Land, a place sacred to countless millions around the world, is currently mired in violence and suffering due to the prolonged political conflict and the lamentable absence of justice and respect for human rights. We, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem, have time and again appealed for the importance of respecting the historic and legal Status Quo of the holy shrines. In these trying times, we come together to raise our voices in unity, echoing the divine message of peace and love for all humanity. As custodians of the Christian faith, deeply rooted in the Holy Land, we stand in solidarity with the people of this region, who are enduring the devastating consequences of continued strife. Our faith, which is founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ, compels us to advocate for the cessation of all violent and military activities that bring harm to both Palestinian and Israeli civilians. We unequivocally condemn any acts that target civilians, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, or faith. Such actions go against the fundamental principles of humanity and the teachings of Christ, who implored us to “love your neighbour as yourself” (Mark 12:31). It is our fervent hope and prayer that all parties involved will heed this call for an immediate cessation of violence. We implore political leaders and authorities to engage in sincere dialogue, seeking lasting solutions that promote justice, peace, and reconciliation for the people of this land, who have endured the burdens of conflict for far too long. In our capacity as spiritual leaders, we extend our hands to all those who suffer, and we pray that the Almighty may grant comfort to the afflicted, strength to the weary, and wisdom to those in positions of authority. We call upon the international community to redouble its efforts to mediate a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land, based on equal rights for all and on international legitimacy. Let us remember the words of the Apostle Paul: “For God is not a God of disorder but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33). In the spirit of this divine message, we implore all to work tirelessly towards an end to violence and the establishment of a just and lasting peace that will allow the Holy Land to be a beacon of hope, faith, and love for all. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with us all during these challenging times. Fr Patrick Allsop has been the Parish priest of the Immaculate Heart of Mary & St Dominic since the summer of 2018. In this Q&A, Fr Patrick discusses his previous career before his calling into Priesthood, what he loves about the community of Homerton, and what a day in the life of a Priest really looks like. Read our exclusive Q&A with Fr Patrick below: Fr Patrick on the community of Homerton: When the Vicar General asked me to move to Homerton, he told me it was a parish where people said their prayers and where the congregation come from all over the world. Both are absolutely true, and a great joy. It’s been fascinating getting to know people, and wonderful to be welcomed so warmly and supported with such easy friendship. I realised when I arrived that there was a great deal of repair work to be done. I calculated about a quarter of a million pounds’ worth. After five years, we’ve raised, and spent, about £130,000. Much has been done through the generosity of parishioners in their giving. Now the focus must be on finishing the upgrading of the Hall. How did you get into PriestHood? I was ordained to a parish in Barrow-in-Furness in the diocese of Carlisle. I served as Assistant Priest for three years there. Then, as all my family are teachers, I thought I would try for a School Chaplaincy. I was lucky enough to be appointed Assistant Chaplain at Eton College. After seven years there, I moved to King’s School Rochester (the second oldest school in England) as Fourth Master, Chaplain and Head of Theology. At King’s I ran staff appointments, publicity, including appearing on local television and radio, organised school services in the Cathedral which was our chapel, and ran my department. After fourteen years, I was appointed Chaplain and Head of Theology and Philosophy at St Paul’s School in Barnes. St Paul’s was originally just to the east of St Paul’s Cathedral. It is a school for very clever boys who were very rewarding to teach. I’d always had the priesthood on my list of possible careers when I was a teenager. Then I went to Walsingham to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham on the Anglican National Pilgrimage. In those days, you received Holy Communion with your group at a said Mass in one of the side Chapels. We were in the Chapel of St John Vianney, the Curé d’Ars. I’d not seen his statue before, and it made an immediate and powerful impression on me. Then I had to persuade my Bishop and the Church that I had a vocation. I went to Cuddesdon Theological College, just outside Oxford, and read Theology at the University. When I retired from the Chaplaincy of St Paul’s, I felt I could no longer represent the Church of England. I was warmly welcomed by Cardinal Vincent, and sent to Allen Hall for a year before three years at Borehamwood. I was ordained deacon in the Catholic Church in Westminster Cathedral. Then Cardinal Vincent ordained me priest at Borehamwood. What’s a typical day like as a priest? There isn’t one. After I’ve said the Office and celebrated Mass, I might spend the day at my desk on admin and preparation. Or people come to see me with or without an appointment to discuss all sorts of things. Or I go into St Dominic’s or Cardinal Pole and celebrate Mass or attend a Governors’ meeting. Or I go to meetings in the Deanery or at Archbishop’s House – I’m a member of two diocesan committees. Or I visit parishioners to bless them or their houses. Or I spend time with builders and craftsmen – there’s been a lot of that this year. Or I officiate at funerals, baptisms, or marriages, or hear confessions. Occasionally I get to read a book! The pictures and interview were both taken and conducted by Richard Yamoah-Afrifa.
I find the second Reading a great encouragement. St Paul, who had seen the risen Jesus on the way to Damascus, who had been caught up to the third heaven and seen mysteries which cannot be described, who was filled with the Holy Spirit to write his letters to the Churches, who endured hunger, thirst, nakedness, attacks, shipwreck in the service of the Gospel, this St Paul asks: ‘who can penetrate [God’s] motives or understand his methods? Who can ever know the mind of the Lord?’ (I Cor. xi 34) If St Paul could not understand God, how can I? It is a great consolation.
Then in the Gospel St Peter shows us a way forward. In the Gospel St Peter is a true encouragement who leads us further on. In the Gospel St Peter has a marvelous moment of insight. It is the point in our Lord’s ministry when he needs to be recognized as he truly is. So far people have seen him as a rabbi, a great teacher, as a prophet, as a healer. Now the full truth must be stated. Jesus asks his disciples: ‘Who do you say I am?’ It is Peter who answers: ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ There is the full truth about Jesus of Nazareth. He is the anointed one, God with us in his human life. How does Peter come to this great statement? Because he has followed Jesus as a disciple. With all his faults, with all his impatience, he has followed Jesus as a disciple. So he can give the Christian profession of faith, the truth about Jesus of Nazareth, that he is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Peter is then established as the rock on which the Church will stand, as the enduring witness to the truth about our Lord. ‘Peter’s task is to serve so that none of the gifts of the Church will be lost. For the Church is the community to live according to Jesus’ new age of truth and love. If Mary is the first born of the new Creation, Peter is her servant. He stands within the Church, charged with keeping the Church true to its witness to our Lord. By his witness, Peter, moreover, becomes the source of the unity between Christians.’ (S. Hauerwas Matthew pp. 150-151) Our great joy, our great privilege, is that we can say with Peter, this is our faith, this is the faith of the Church. The Immaculate Heart of Mary & St Dominic, Homerton The most missed practice during lockdown has, after Mass and Holy Communion, been the possibility of Confession – the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Questions have come from those who, I suspect, are regular penitents, and from those who seem to be less regular in coming, but who value the opportunity to cleanse their sins sacramentally. St Augustine has some very relevant words about our experience during lockdown. He wrote: ‘The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise in holy desire.’ (On the 1st Letter of John) Lockdown has seriously challenged our comfortable assumption that the Sacraments are there when we want them. We feel we ought to go. We know we have a duty to go. We can go when we feel like it. So the important element of desire, of hunger for holy things, of a passion unsatisfied for the grace of God, is all too often missing. Lockdown by depriving us of all but private prayer has challenged, should have shaken that comfortable error out of our hearts and minds. We should feel more strongly that ‘exercise in holy desire’ which St Augustine thinks is ‘the entire life of a good Christian.’ St Augustine went on to explore this ‘exercise in holy desire’ by an image which any of us who have wrestled with fitting our shopping into a bag will recognize. ‘Suppose you are going to fill some holder or container, and you know you will be given a large amount. Then you set about stretching your sack or wineskin or whatever it is. Why? Because you know the quantity you will have to put in and your eyes tell you there is not enough room. By stretching it, therefore, you increase the capacity of the sack, and this is how God deals with us. Simply by making us wait he increases our desire, which in turn enlarges the capacity of our soul, making it able to receive what is to be given us.’ (On the 1st Letter of John 3.1-2) It is here that Confession fits in. Confession forces us to face, to recognize, to speak about, the sin which is in our life, in our heart and in our mind. It is an emptying out of wickedness and evil from our being and our life. By emptying out sin we make even more space for the grace and the love with which God wants to fill us. Confessing sin brings us face-to-face with our desperate need for God. Absolution shows us God taking away our sin and replacing it with his gifts and graces. This we have missed through lockdown. This we earnestly desire. This God gives us in Confession. Fr Patrick Everybody is in favour of community. Even loners often tell us how much they would like to be part of a community – if only they could find one that suited them. Human beings are social animals. We seek each other out to be friends. We need each other’s company. That has been one of the hardest parts of the recent lockdown. To be separated from our family, our friends, our acquaintances, one companions, our mates. It has been particularly hard for the elderly who have been forced to self-isolate, and who are still damagingly limited in the number of people they can interact with.
For Catholics all this reaches it fullness in the community of the Church. There we not only encounter the Lord Jesus, but we meet too our brothers and sisters in the faith. It is a damaging platitude, repeated by the unthinking, that the Church is the people not the building. Particularly in the British climate, we need a building to shelter us. More than that, the building becomes hallowed by the Masses celebrate there and by the prayers offered there. The very stones become saturated with worship and so support us as we seek to meet God. Most powerfully Jesus Christ is present in every Catholic Church in his Eucharistic Body in the Tabernacle. That’s why the recent and over-delayed opening of Churches for private prayer is so welcome. Once more we can adore our Lord in his immediate presence. But it is all too easy for us to fracture community, to damage the unity of the Church, to fail to recognize others as linked to us. St Augustine was powerfully aware of this, for in his day and place, there was a particularly hard line group who rejected Augustine and his people. He wrote: ‘We appeal to you above all to show charity, not only towards one another. But also those who are outside the fold, whether they are still pagans, not yet believing in Christ, or separated from us, confessing the same head as we do, but separated from the body. My friends, let us grieve for them as our brothers and sisters. Whether they like or not, they are our brothers and sisters, and they will only cease to be if they cease to say ‘Our Father’.’ (On Psalm 32.29) This is an ever more important message for those of us who today live in a society which can be sharply, even fatally, divided by hatred, bigotry and prejudice. The Internet has sadly given a means of publicity to those who are so corrupted. Twitter allows unthinking forwarding of lies and misstatements. If we are to build our community, if we are to recognize our equal value and importance as human beings, then we need to make charity central to our lives together. St Augustine challenged his hearers: ‘Pour out all your love to God on their behalf.’ That challenge remains for Catholics today. Catholics in China have long been persecuted by the Marxist atheist government for practising their faith. They have responded with dignity and determination. But their situation – particularly recently when the cross has been ripped from their Churches by the authorities – is a continuing denial of the human right to religious faith and its practice.
Under the Treaty which managed the return of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997, the people of Hong Kong retain many more human rights than on the Chinese mainland. This is the celebrated special administrative region with ‘one country, two systems.’ Recently the Hong Kong government has attempted to modify the Treaty provisions to limit the rights of the inhabitants. This has led to violent demonstrations in defence of rights solemnly guaranteed by the Chinese government. The response of the government has been to threaten to impose these restrictions by decree instead of by the Hong Kong legislative process. Where then is HSBC in this? Our high street bank HSBC is in full the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. It started life there in the mid-19th century, and came to the UK most obviously by taking over the former Midland Bank. It still does a lot of business in the areas where it started. HSBC is on public record as approving the measures proposed by the Chinese government. This is widely seen by commentators as dictated by concern for its commercial interests. Why is this of concern to Catholics? Because the Catholic Church takes human dignity, human freedom and human rights very seriously indeed. Any attempt to remove human rights to freedom of conscience, of religious faith, and to those political and legal rights which are commonly seen as fundamental in modern societies is wrong politically, morally and religiously. So The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: ‘By virtue of his soul and his spiritual powers of intellect and will, man (NB: this is quoting a 1960s document where man is inclusive of all human beings) is endowed with freedom.’ (Catechism 1700) This is further explained, ‘Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or do that, and so perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. …Freedom makes man responsible for his acts to the extent they are voluntary. … Freedom is exercised in relationships between human beings. Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. All owe each other this duty of respect. The right to the exercise of freedom, especially in its moral and religious matters, is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of the human person. This right must be recognized and protected by civil authority within the limits of the common good and public order.’ (Catechism 1731-1738: italics in the original) HSBC’s current public position is clearly contrary to Catholic teachings and perspectives. Of course HSBC is entitled to protect and further what it sees as the interests of its business and shareholders. Equally Catholics are entitled not to deal with a bank whose attitude is so profoundly opposed to Catholic truth. Catholics should withdraw their business from an institution determined to prefer profit to moral principle. Well, it has finally happened. The Church re-opens this Wednesday for private prayer.
We will at first only be open on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This has been agreed by all the priests in Hackney. It allows the Church to clean itself of any lingering presence of the virus between openings. You still need to observe the rules about social distancing, being careful about what you touch, and about taking any paper you touch home with you. DO NOT READ THE NEWSLETTER AND THEN LEAVE IT IN CHURCH. I put this in capitals because normally several people do this. Now this is an infection risk to those who clean the Church. This re-opening is a great opportunity for us to renew our prayer in front of the Tabernacle, in the presence of Jesus. That is stressed because Sunday is the feast of Corpus and Sanguis Christi when we thank our Lord for his gift to us of the Eucharist. In Communion our Lord unites us to himself and gives us countless graces and virtues. Then on Friday we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. This Wednesday, 17th June, is the anniversary of the consecration of the diocese to the Sacred Heart in 1873, just as our parish was founded. This feast is an opportunity to reflect on how our Lord pours the love of God onto us from his heart, conceived in Mary’s womb by the Holy Spirit and pierced on the cross by the soldier’s spear. From it pours the blood and water of the Eucharist and Baptism. This is immediately followed on Saturday by the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to whom our Church and parish are consecrated. This is our chance to thank our Blessed Mother for all the gifts, favours and graces she has won for us by her continual prayer. She who lived all her life without sin yet looks down on us in our weakness with compassion and love. She pleads with her Son for us that we may grow ever more pleasing to him. |
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