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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As we are on the verge of a New Year, permit me this moment to express my gratitude for the way your faith allows God’s presence to be felt and known at MIT.<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>All of us have moments when it is easy to follow and love God, times when it is challenging, and even moments when we fail.<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>Be assured that God sees the desire of your heart.<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>Knowingly and unknowingly, you are God’s face and heart on campus. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Below is a passage from Sacred Scripture and a quote from Saint Pope John XXIII, for the New Year.<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>May you always know how much God cherishes you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Blessed New Year!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Fr Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sacred Scripture:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">1 Corinthians 13:1 - 8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Saint Pope John XXIII:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“<i>Seek what unites, not what divides you one from another.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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