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<p class="MsoNormal">Blessings on your day! Below please find information concerning an important Faith & Science Summit offered by the highly regarded Word on Fire Institute. I hope many of you will be able to participate in this opportunity.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Blessings and peace,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fr Michael<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Reverend Michael B. Medas, MSW<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Catholic Chaplain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">40 Massachusetts Ave.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">“<i>But now thus says the Lord,<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> He who created you, O Jacob,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> He who formed you, O Israel:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I have called you by name, you are mine.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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