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When you allow the wisdom of the Faith to mature you, form you, and shape you, you discover your truest self and your real identity. Interested?

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Fr. Barnabas Powell
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For the past several years, our society has been struggling with the chaos of “identity politics.” Our whole society has been gripped by the challenges of “microaggressions,” gender dysphoria, and the “cancel culture” of being a heretic of the current faddish madness trying to pass itself off as “progress” and “fairness” and “compassion.”

Of course, our true identity isn’t any of these so-called “virtues.”

But the truth is identity issues aren’t anything new. Prejudice and tribalism are as old as humanity itself. In fact, Jesus Christ was born into a world where particular identities were so toxic that they would get you ostracized from “polite society.” St. Paul would tell the Galatians in our lesson today of a radical new way of looking at humanity that was meant to heal us from the toxic tribalism that plagued the Roman Empire then and still plagues us today!

Look at our lesson today in Galatians 3:23-29; 4:1-5:

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