1. Year B / Ordinary Time / Solemnity of the Holy Trinity
    Readings: Deuteronomy 4.32-34, 39-40 / Psalm—32. 4-5, 6 and 9, 18-19, 20 and 22 (R/v 12b) / Romans 8.14-17 / Matthew 28.16-20

    Sisters and brothers, how do you make sense of a mystery? Have you tried to read up on it? Have you tried to analyse and dissect it? Have you asked around for answers? Did you feel you must problem solve this mystery?

    The Holy Trinity is the mystery of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. One God yet three persons. They are united, co-equal and living in perfect communion. What does all this mean? Hence, our questions: What is the Holy Trinity? Can God be one yet Three Persons? Are Father, Son and Spirit doing their own thing if they are one God?

    Today’s readings and prayer do not solve the mystery of the Trinity. Instead, they simply invite us to experience and appreciate God as the Holy Trinity who wants to share life with us and in whose love we are called to live in. The focus of today’s celebrations is the living presence of the Trinity in our lives: this Trinity that continually creates, saves, and sustains us and all of creation.

    One way we can understand and experience this living presence of the Trinity in our lives is to reflect on Andrei Rublev’s icon called “The Trinity”. The icon “The Trinity” depicts the three angels who visited Abraham at the Oak of Mamre (Genesis 18:1–8).  Because of its rich symbolism, it has been interpreted as an icon of the Holy Trinity throughout the centuries. Here then are Father, Son and Holy Spirit sitting around a table. They are feasting, celebrating and communing together. This is beautiful image of the One God. 
    But this is an icon, not a painting. We look and admire a painting. We pray with an icon; contemplating it helps us enter into the mystery of God. Rublev’s icon is inviting us to contemplate God as Trinity. See how the Father, Son and Spirit each acknowledge the other with the tilt of his head. See the relationship and life they share: intimate, life giving, loving. 

    Yet together their faces are turned outwards to you and me, inviting us into their gracious communion, calling us to complete the circle, to be one with them. To enter into the mystery of the Trinity and to live with them. This is the invitation our gospel reading makes today.

    We hear this invitation in Jesus’ command: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”. 

    What does it mean to baptise them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit? For all of us, the sacrament that we received as a baby at Baptism or as an adult through RCIA comes to mind. There is also understanding about the strong desire some have to be baptised.  However we understand “to be baptised” the Greek word for baptise means “dip” or “immerse”. This reminds us that Baptism is about being immersed into the life of the Trinity who dwells in us and lives with us. So, how many are on your life’s journey? The right answer is four: you, and God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit! 

    This is why I find Rublev’s icon comforting, hopeful and life giving. Here is God who is Trinity inviting me to enter and to sit with the Trinity. To share life with them. To receive their love as I want to share my love with them. To be one with them as they want to one with them. Today God is making the same invitation to you.

    We are being invited into goodness of relationship with God. This is Paul’s message in our second reading. God's life in us is not something abstract but a relationship of children to our “Abba, Father.” This is the work and gift of the Spirit of God through Christ. This is how God lives in our lives as the Trinity. This how God is so close to us. 
    God is the Father who created us in love and who mercifully forgives us every time to save us. 
    God is the Son, Jesus who shows us how to live with God and with one another. 
    God is the Holy Spirit who always accompanies us into freedom from sin so that we can live as God’s children.  
    Of all the beautiful churches and the many golden tabernacles in the world, the Trinity’s favourite dwelling place is the human heart. This is why God is with us wherever we are or go, and in whatever we do and say. 

    Like the disciples, Jesus asks us to share this relationship with all. “Go out, and baptise the nations in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”, Jesus commands.

    Who are these nations? All the countries of the world, to be sure. But also those metaphorical "nations" closer to us: those nations that are our own families and friends, our classmates and co-workers, everyone who is part of our lives. 

    And what are we sent to do? To draw them into the circle of the Holy Trinity’s life and love. In this circle, all savour the fullness of God’s goodness. To be in the circle of relationship with the Trinity is to experience the loving embrace of the Trinity.

    We can draw many into the Trinity’s embrace because our baptism empowers us to be God's presence among the “nations.” We are the visible sign of Jesus' promise: “I am with you always.” 

    Let me suggest three simple ways we can imitate the Holy Trinity’s work in our lives and so embody God’s presence to all. These are:
    By being like God, the Father, who is always the first to reach out, to forgive and to embrace us back in love. Let us give life to others with words and actions that bless. 
    By being like Jesus, the Son, who teaches, heals and reconciles so all can live with God and one another in peace. Let us be persons who bring about reconciliation in our families, our work place, and our world. 
    By being like the Holy Spirit, who transform our lives with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5.22-25). Let us be agents of God’s transforming love to care, console, uplift and make all happy.
    We can live and act like these ways when we say “yes” to God’s invitation to relationship in the Trinity. Then, we can live in the Trinity, dialogue with the Trinity, and listen to the Trinity.* These are how we can better know the love of God and be empowered by to share this love of God. Here is the Trinity’s presence working in us to transform us into Jesus' disciples to the nations.

    This is why that open space at the front of the icon is important. It is the very the space God is inviting us, and those we will baptise, to enter and become part of the life and mission of the Trinity which is to create, save and sanctify.

    So, let us try to interact more with our God as Trinity this week. Let us live and talk and listen to the Trinity. 
    Let us say to God, the Father: “Father, this is how I feel like today. What do you think?”.  
    Let us speak with Jesus, the Son: “How are you, Jesus? How can I use by gifts and talents to make you happy today?” 
    Let us interact with the Holy Spirit: “Thank you for giving us life, Holy Spirit. Help me to share this life with others”.
    Let us interact more with the Holy Trinity this week. As we do, I pray you will come to know that you don’t have to solve the mystery of the Trinity. Rather, immerse yourself in the Trinity and savour the goodness of Father, Son and Spirit in your life. This is what matters most everyday. 

    Then, I hope you will come to appreciate the truth the refrain in today’s responsorial psalm proclaims: “Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own”. You are God’s blessed. You are God’s own. Indeed, you are God's chosen ones because in you God dwells as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. How wonderful this is!



     *attributed to Fr Jamie Bonet, FMVD

    Preached at Church of the Transfiguration
    artwork: underwater by jacob sutton

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  2. Year B / Eastertide / Pentecost 
    Readings: Acts 2.1-11 / Psalm 104. 1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 (R/v cf 30) / Galatians 5:16-25/ Jn 15:25-27, 16:12-15 


    Tin Tin is my sister’s maid. She’s from Myanmar. Whenever we have family dinner, she helps to cook and wash up, and to care for my nephews. She always welcomes my family and I with smiles and laughter whenever we visit. She is the helper my sister depends on: she’s always available; she’s just a call away.

    Many of us here have maids too. Like Tin Tin, they do many things to help support us in our material life. We need helpers too in our spiritual life. Helpers like family and friends, fellow parishioners and religious and priests to help us grow as Christians.

    Today we celebrate the feast of God’s helper in our life: the Holy Spirit. The Spirit did not just come randomly into the apostles’ lives. Jesus told them to pray for the Spirit to come. And the Spirit did come with a powerful, strong wind and with tongues of fire coming down upon their heads as we hear about the Pentecost in our first reading. It is a vivid, colourful, and dramatic scene. We can however lose sight of the goodness of the Spirit’s coming into the apostles’ lives if we focus too much on the sights and sounds of that first Pentecost.  

    What effects of goodness does the Spirit bring about?

    First, how the apostles began to speak in different tongues, and to do this by boldly proclaiming Jesus to all. Here is the Spirit at work in their lives. With the Spirit, we too can be brave and proclaim Jesus.

    Second, how the many bystanders from different lands could hear them speaking in their own tongue about the things of God. Here is the work of the Spirit in their faith. With the Spirit, we too can understand the things of God and understand ourselves.

    The Spirit is indeed powerful. It can transform us for the better.  This is the happy hope the second reading offers us in Paul’s exhortation to the early Christians and us to live by the Spirit, and not by the flesh. 

    To live according to the flesh means that we let bad feelings, jealousy, laziness, impurity, anger and the like rule our lives. This leads us to do things in excess and in sin that inevitably hurt others and ourselves. Consider how drinking or smoking excessively, lusting to pleasure ourselves by abusing others, and acting selfishly to gratify ourselves are never good for us and others, let alone our souls. 

    We are not meant to live in the flesh because we have been baptised to live in the Spirit.  We all struggle between living by the flesh and by the Spirit. “The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak”. We say this phrase now and again. We do because we struggle with the reality of being human and the hope of living as Christians. This hope brings us here because we want to live in the Spirit and be good Christians. 

    To live in the Spirit is to live with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5.22-25). To live this way is to live in the language of love -- of God’s love, really. 

    This language of love was Jesus’ language when he was on earth. In everything, love was his word and love was his way. Love informed how he taught and preached. Love enabled how he healed and cared. Love empowered how he ministered to all and uplifted the poor. 

    Jesus calls us to use and practise this same language of love in our everyday lives. None of us has had a Pentecost experience like the apostles had. In fact, our day-to-day lives, on the whole, are much little less spectacular than that dramatic event. Yet the Holy Spirit is no less present to us now than it was to them, then.  Yes, there are no tongues of flame and no sound of a powerful wind but God’s Spirit is present here now, present in this place, and present especially within you. 

    God’s Spirit is present in us because we are the temples of the Holy Spirit.  There is an inkling of this truth whenever we say that someone is “high spirited” or they are in “good spirits”. This Spirit dwells in us so that we know who God really is, what our truest intentions are, and why faith, hope and love are our Christian way. We know ourselves because the Spirit tells us so. 

    Indeed, isn’t this why we call upon the Spirit to give us wisdom, to guide us daily, and to lift up our eyes to God? 

    Don’t we see the Spirit’s answer in the simplest of actions like a mother’s gentleness in embracing her newborn or a stranger’s generosity when offering up his seat for a senior citizen on the MRT? And don’t we experience the Spirit’s answer in our daily ordinariness like when peace soothes us after a hectic work day, or when our patience and self-control surprises us in a trying, difficult moment? I am sure there other similar moments when the Spirit acted for your good and happiness.

    Knowing that God’s Spirit is with us must surely move us to admit confidently that the Spirit is indeed the helper Jesus promised us. Yes, the Spirit helps to keep our lives in order, to empower us to do good, to stop us from going astray, to protect us from living in the flesh and sinning, and to uplift us in God’s love and for God’s life. In all of this, the Spirit advocates for us, our wellbeing and our happiness before God. It is wise for us to remember this counsel by St Irenaeus: “When we hear the Accuser, the Evil One, may we never forget we have an Advocate, the Spirit” (Against Heresies, Book 3).

    The Spirit does all this good quietly and unobtrusively but surely and steadily in our lives for us to be well and happy. We can however easily miss this good and loving work of the Spirit because it happens so much in the unseen, the background, the unnoticeable moments of our lives. 

    Today we are being invited to see, to experience, to know this but most of all to savour the goodness of the Spirit in our lives.

    How can we do this? 

    Tin Tin my sister’s maid has a limited grasp of English. She understands it but she struggles with speaking it. So, she points and signs a lot and repeats often to make sure she does the right work so that all of us are well and happy.   

    Pointing and signing. Perhaps, this is how the Spirit speaks to us about the goodness of God’s love laboring in our lives. This is like that experience we have all had when we travel to a foreign country or place where people speaks differently, and we did not understand. Yet we did communicate by our pointing and signing, by our smiles and frowns, by our hand gestures.  And as we communicated in this way, we did understand. We could because in all of us there are basic human experiences we have and we want to share – needs, and desires, and hopes. This is why we can easily recognise in one another our shared struggles and hopes.  May be part of the Spirit’s action is to point us to see God's gracious labour in every moment of all our lives.

    The Spirit works then for everyone’s well being and happiness. The Spirit brings unity and harmony amidst differences. It renews all things when there is brokenness and chaos. What the world needs now is more spirited people who want to make the world better. 

    Let us be such people for all. Let us pray for the Spirit to fill our hearts and kindle in us the fire of God’s love. You and I need this fire to renew the world. The Spirit gave the apostles this fire to do this by proclaiming God’s mighty works, the mightiest of all is our salvation in Jesus.  

    Let us call God’s helper, the Spirit to help us do this. And more than this, let us call for the Spirit to renew us so that we can set the world blaze again with God’s love. So, yes, “Come Holy Spirit, come!”
    Inspired in parts by Fr James McTavish, FMVD

    Preached at the Church of the Transfiguration
    photo: www.liturgyletter.com



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  3. Year B / Eastertide / Seventh Sunday
    Readings: Acts 1.15-17, 20a, 20c-26 / Psalm 97102.1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab (R/v 19a) / 1 John 4-11-16 / John 17.11b-19

    Sisters and brothers, do you remember when someone said to you, “I prayed for you today”? How did you feel?

    My mother often reminds me that she prays for me. “I kept you in my prayers”. Sometimes, I smile when I hear this. Sometimes I say, ‘thank you’. Sometimes however I don’t pay attention to her gift of prayer. 

    How do you respond when someone says they have prayed for you?

    “I prayed for you today”. “I kept you in my prayers” Do these acts touch you and me deeply because they speak of another’s kindness, care and generosity? Shouldn’t they matter because they express someone’s love for us, especially, our mothers? Or, are we regretful because we took these prayers for granted and are not as appreciative as we ought to be?

    To be honest, I don't spend enough time thinking about my mother’s prayers. I am thankful I did to write this homily. I know she prays for her children and grandchildren, for family and friends. I know she prays for our happiness and health, for us to remain close to Jesus and steadfast in our faith. I know she prays for the sick, the dead and those needing prayers. Her frequent prayer is for peace. 

    Mom speaks often about the goodness of prayer and the need to pray daily. “Just pray” she says often; “God answers our prayers”. She has confidence when she prays.

    I believe many mothers pray like my Mom does, with great faith in God and with fervent prayers for us. I think this line from St Paul’s letter to the Philippians describes how they pray best: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God” (Philippians 4:6).

    I believe this is how Jesus also prays for his disciples in today’s gospel.  Here is Jesus praying at the Last Supper: not for himself but for them. He is not teaching them how to pray and what to ask God for, like he did with “The Lord’s Prayer”. This prayer is different. He is praying to God for those he loves. 

    What does Jesus pray for? Not that life will be easy for them. He knows it won't because they are in the world and it is soiled by sin. Sin that leads to scarcity instead of abundance, fear instead of courage, injustice instead of fairness and selfishness instead of sacrificial love in the world.  

    So, Jesus doesn't pray that it will be easy for them. Rather, he prays for God to support the disciples amid their challenges and that they will be united together, and one with Jesus and the Father through the Spirit.

    But Jesus doesn't only pray for his disciples. Immediately after today’s scene, Jesus will say: "I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one" (John 17:20-21a). Yes, Jesus also prays for us. We who gather here, whether saintly or sinful, whether our Christian lives are in order or disorder. We are the ones that Jesus also prayed for then, as he continues to pray for now.

    And Jesus prays for the same things for us: that we may find God's support and encouragement and that we may be one in fellowship with each other and God.  These two things go together. Here we are to be nourished by Jesus, God's Word and God’s bread; these are how God supports and encourages us to live. And here we are to deepen our relationship with Jesus; this is how we grow and live in Christ-like fellowship with God and neighbour.

    Jesus’ prayer finds its fulfilment in us when we let Paul’s teaching in our second reading become our way of life. This is Paul’s teaching: “if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us” (1 John 4.12).  God’s love is the strength we need to live. It gives us the courage to face the challenges to live in the world and bear witness to God’s love. God’s love perfects us to live the Christian life.

    In our everyday life, Jesus’ prayer resounds in the many prayers said for us. Whether these prayers are said by family or friend, by intercessory group or religious and priests, by those who love us or strangers who don’t know us, they all pray for us like Jesus prayed for his disciples then: for God to protect us, for God’s joy be our joy, and for God's love to be our love.

    Don’t we hear these hopes echoed in their prayers to God for us to have:
    Patience to be a better parent or friend. 
    Encouragement amid the difficulties and challenges we face. 
    Courage to stand up to a class or workplace bully or befriend a friendless classmate or work colleague.  
    Consolation the face of the loss of loved ones or the end of a relationship.  
    Hope when we despair and feel all is lost. 
    Companionship at a time of loneliness.
    Healing of body, mind, or spirit.  
    Forgiveness, or the ability to forgive another. 
    Joy in living with God.
    You and I must learn to appreciate the love that gives rise to such prayer. We can by allowing ourselves to savour the goodness of those praying for us and the goodness they ask God for us in prayer. Yes, to savour and experience their prayer, not to simply read or listen to them.

    I can’t help but imagine that when disciples overheard Jesus praying for them, they savoured the goodness of his prayer and felt a little less troubled. Less troubled as they struggled with Jesus’ impending death, Judas’ betrayal and their fear of an uncertain future. Recognising their anxieties and concerns, Jesus knew that they did not need another lesson, another miracle, another example. What they needed Jesus knew and he gave the best to them: prayer.

    Those who pray for us pray like Jesus: they know what we need because of our circumstances, especially mothers who know us best.  This is why we should never underestimate the depth of love and care of those who pray for us. Let us therefore pay more attention to what at it might feel like and sound like when we overhear others praying for us. Perhaps, then we will know how high their prayers for us soar upwards to God because their love for us springs forth from the very depths of their being. 

    Let us also learn from them and from Jesus about how and what to pray for others. Whether we pray for them daily, or over a hospital bed, or at a home visit, or in school and work, or at dinner time and Mass, let us not underestimate what our prayers can mean for them and how they can uplift them.

    This week, prayers will continue to be said for you and me, for our needs and our hopes. This week we will pray for our loved ones and those we know who will need prayers. And yes, this week, I will hear again my mother’s reminder, “I prayed for you”. All these prayers echo Jesus’ prayer for his disciples then and for us now. They seek only God’s best for us, like Peter did for the first believers when electing Judas’ replacement that the first reading describes. 

    Yes, many prayers will be said for us. It’s not that we deserve them. It’s not that you’ve earned them. It’s not that l ask for them. It’s just that many good people want to pray for us, like Jesus prayed for his disciples. They will pray to God because they know we need prayers. And maybe we really do. And this is more than okay, isn't it?



    Preached at Church of the Transfiguration
    Photo: http://www.gesurisorto.it/ 


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  4. Once there was a monastery on a mountain. People called it the Light on the Hill because they saw how God’s love was alive amongst the monks and in how they welcomed everyone. 

    Over time, the monastery’s fame made the monks proud, arrogant, and self-centered. They forgot they entered the monastery to be with God, to remain with God, and to pray with God for the world. Many monks left because they no longer experienced God’s love in the midst. The people lost hope in the monks. The light of the monastery dimmed. No one joined them.

    The six monks remaining monks grew old, depressed and bitter in their relationship with one another. The Abbot worried. He had to do something. He climbed down the 1001 steps to the woods below to consult a hermit renown for his holiness. The hermit listened to the abbot. Then, the hermit said: “I have no advice. The only thing I can tell you is that the Messiah is one of you.”

    The puzzled abbot climbed the 1001 steps back up to the monastery.  At the gate, he met Bro Mark. “Are you the Messiah, Bro Mark? You pray all the time?” “No, no. I am not. It must be Bro Issac, the infirmarian. He heals the sick”.  Bro Mark asked Bro Isaac if he was the Messiah. Bro Issac said “no” and pointed him to Bro Joseph was always ready to help. Bro Joseph, in turn, went to Bro Gabriel, their best preacher. “You must be the Messiah amongst us because we hear God in your voice!” Bro Gabriel laugh the loudest laugh and pointed to the Abbot, “He must be because he leads us”.  

    Each of the monks kept denying they were the Messiah. Yet each one, knowing how God comes disguised in the simple and ordinary, kept on looking out for the Messiah in their midst.  

    From that day onwards the monks treated one another with greater respect and humility, knowing that they might in fact be speaking to Jesus. They began to show more love for one another. Their common life became more brotherly and their common prayer more fervent. Slowly people began to notice a new spirit in the monastery. They began coming back for retreats and spiritual direction. Word began to spread about the change. Men began to join the monastery. 

    All saw and experienced God’s love in the life the monks shared. Slowly the light returned to the monastery on the mountain. All this because the hermit drew their attention to this simple truth: Jesus lives amidst us all.

    This is one of my favourite stories. It offers us wisdom to live the Christian life well. Simply put, it is a story about how these monks, and you and I, can live our lives in God’s love, with God’s love and share God’s love with all. Whether we are lukewarm in our Christian living now, or devout and fervent now, this story gives us an example of how today’s readings can be lived in our everyday life.

    In today’s gospel reading, Jesus commands his disciples – and you and me – to remain in his love and to love one another. They are really one command: that we remain in Jesus’ love so that we can love others, as he loves. 

    Only when we have the love of Jesus and make it our own way of loving can you and I lay down our lives for others. I think we all struggle to lay down our lives, like Jesus did. We struggle because we want this action we make to mean something to God. We think it does when it is as painful, as humiliating, as tragic as Jesus. Otherwise our actions mean nothing to God.

    But I believe God is asking us die on the simpler crosses in our everyday lives. Here is where we will find salvation by living more like Jesus in the world. 

    To die on the cross of gossip that others nail us to. On this cross, we can die to our pain and anger by forgiving those gossipers.  

    To die on the cross of shame. On this cross, we can die to our failures by letting family, friends and colleagues care and support us still. 

    To die to the cross of loveless family relationships. On this cross, we can die to our hardheartedness by learning to value every family member. 

    To die on the cross of broken friendships. On this cross, we can die to our selfishness to reconcile and become better friends. 

    To die on the cross of our addiction to excesses, to lust, or to hatred. On this cross, we can die to our sinfulness by giving God control of our lives and save us.

    Yes, to die like the monks did to their small minded ways, and so opened their hearts wide to the truth that God is with them and amongst them.

    These are some ways we can lay down our lives for others and for God in our everyday lives.

    By laying down his life so that others can live, Jesus reveals how God’s love saves and is for everyone. Jesus could lay down his life because he understood how God’s great love is already in him and empowering him to love others. Are you and I aware of God’s great love in our lives and at work in us for others?

    Today Jesus reminds us that God is also dwelling in our hearts through Jesus, that he is one with us in Jesus, and that with Jesus, his love is indeed our love for the world. This  is why we are called “Beloved” in today’s second reading: we share in God’s love. All who know God know God is love. And since we are “begotten by God”, we exist to love. If we refuse to love, we reject not only God but the very life we have for didn’t God so loved the world that he gave as his only Son, Jesus, that we might live? 

    Yes, to be human is to love. Jesus showed us how: by loving God and loving neighbour. Do we love like Jesus? Do those around us experience God’s love through us?

    “Remain in my love,” Jesus says. Oftentimes the word “remain” means “stay put” for many of us. For Jesus, to “remain” means to be one with him in God’s love so that with him we can embrace all who God will entrusts into our care and love.  

    Haven’t we experienced this when we said “yes” to Jesus? Yes, to forgiving family members and friends that reconciled us with the larger family and more friends. Yes, to caring for the nameless poor and faceless needy that we now know by name and history. And yes, even to reaching out to one another in our parish as friends, not strangers.

    We can do this when we remain in Jesus’ love because his love empowers us to call everyone “friend”. Call them “friend”, even our enemies, because through each of them who we see, we hear, and we touch, we experience nothing less than the love of Jesus in our midst. I think this was how the monks in the story found the light of God’s love again amongst them.  They could because what they really heard in the hermit’s words Jesus’ command: “love one another”.

    Today we hear this same command: “love one another”. So, let us love. Let us love one another. Let us love one another as Jesus loves us. This is how we remember, celebrate and believe that the Messiah, the risen Jesus, our Lord and our God, lives amongst us always.




     Preached at Church of the Transfiguration, Singapore
    photo: still from the film the great silence (www.internetmonk.com)
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