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Pentecost
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John 20:19-23
The story is told of Napoleon Bonaparte boasting to a Vatican cardinal
that he would destroy the Church. Replied the official insouciantly to
the perplexed emperor, "Good luck, Your Majesty. We priests have been
attempting to do just that for centuries."
In effect, the bishop was doffing his scarlet biretta in salute to the
Holy Spirit. That Spirit dwells comfortably and sometimes, I suspect,
very uncomfortably within the Church. Try what anyone might, the Church
will not go away precisely because the Third Person of the Holy Trinity
is on the job around the clock. Napoleon thought the prelate was
pulling his imperial leg. He took on the Church. He was rudely
dethroned. The Church survived. The former emperor wound up
beating off mosquitoes as a full-time occupation on the damp island of
Saint Helena somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
Think of the top athletes in any sport you can name - baseball,
cricket, soccer, whatever. Without these players, their
respective teams would be a big nothing. With them, their teams are
contenders for first honors. Sometimes the stars and their fellow
players because of them will wear championship laurels. These
top-of-the-line performers lend an all-important spirit to their teams.
Without them, the other players would be non-contenders and possibly
losers.
Without the Holy Spirit, the Church would be at best a third rate
operation or, perhaps better, a non-operation. But with the Spirit the
Church is today able to survive its many difficulties. Some
commentators go further and say with the Paraclete the Church played a
strong hand in bringing down the Communist empire in the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics and in eastern Europe in the last century.
And who are you and I to say they are wrong?
What everyone does agree on is that it is the Holy Spirit that keeps
the Church on her feet, sometimes bruised and bloody but still
valiantly swinging away. Many times that swing is good enough to be a
knockout punch. And all of this is happening twenty centuries plus
after its foundation in Palestine by Jesus the Nazarene!
Scientists tell us that space ships are moved out of the atmosphere of
the earth by a particular fuel combination that results in millions of
pounds of all-important thrust. Racing car enthusiasts giddily inform
us that sleek race cars move around the track at an outrageous 200
miles per hour. They are of course propelled by an exotic mixture of
powerful fuels.
And, as in the case of the space ships and racing cars, we Christians
and our Church are likewise fueled by an awesome fuel. But in this case
the name of that fuel is the Holy Spirit. And pound for pound, the
Spirit is a winner. What other figure in the five thousand years of
recorded history can match His track record? None of the champion
players you can name are hardly in His league. But who or what is?
The Acts of the Apostles 2:2-3 speak of the Spirit in terms of wind and
fire. A writer has noted that a wind can move a clipper ship across an
ocean at a brisk pace. First though it must take the effort to unfurl
its sails. A fire can warm the corners of a cold room, but it must be
lit and then tended.
So it is with you and me. We possess the gifts of the Holy Spirit from
day one of our Baptisms. They were quadrupled by our respective
Confirmations. They rest unpeacefully in our spirits waiting to be
called to birth and life. If they are, then we fly and we take on a
golden glow. Try as one might, there is no way of disguising a genuine
Christian. Unhappily there are so few genuine ones. Thus the real
article stands out like that famous sore thumb.
Soren Kiergegaard sums up the situation of many of us. He most
unflatteringly compares us to domesticated geese. Invariably we talk of
flying. So, we say, "We have wings. We should fly. Let us use them."
But says the professor mournfully we stay firmly glued to the ground.
But perhaps this Pentecost might be different for us. Why? Well, listen
to Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Because the Holy Ghost over the bent world
broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings."
However, do remember, as somebody has put it, we do not need more of
the Holy Spirit. Rather, He needs more of us.
Do stand out like a sore thumb this Pentecost season.
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Pentecost: Letting the Spirit Speak
“Father of Light, from whom every good gift comes, send your Spirit
into our lives with the power of a mighty wind, and by the flame of
your wisdom open the horizons of our minds. Loosen our tongues to sing
your praise in words beyond the power of speech, for without your
Spirit man could never raise his voice in words of peace or announce
the truth that Jesus is Lord.” (Alternate Opening Prayer for Pentecost)
When
he first met the Lord, calling to him from the burning bush, Moses
questioned the Mystical Voice. The voice told Moses to confront
Pharaoh and to lead the people out of Egypt. Moses wondered how
he could do this. God gave Moses a bit of a preview of what would
follow before Pharaoh. He told Moses to throw down his
staff. Staff became a snake. Then God told Moses to pick it
up the snake by its tail. The staff was restored. When
Moses questioned his ability to speak to Pharaoh, God told him that he
would put the words in his mouth. Moses continued to spar with
God. He said that he was not a person who could speak to
crowds. How was he to convince the Hebrew people to listen to him
and follow him our of Egypt? The Lord told Moses that he, God,
would use Moses’ brother Aaron to address the people. And so, empowered
by God, Moses and Aaron spoke, and the people heard the Word of God.
In
the year that King Ussiah died, about five hundred years after Moses, a
man named Isaiah had a vision. He saw God, sitting on the throne
of heaven. The glory of God filled the throne room. The
room was also full of the smoke from the incense set before the
throne. Above the throne were the Seraphim, angels with six
wings. Two wings covered their face,two covered their feet and
with the other two wings they flew. The angels cried out, “Holy,
Holy, Holy is the Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and Earth are filled
with his glory.” And Isaiah called out, “Woe is me, I am
lost. I am a man of unclean lips. I dwell among people of
unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.”
What he was saying is that he did not deserve to be before God.
God’s glory was more than Isaiah’s humanity could tolerate. The
fire of God’s love would burn Him up. But then, one of the
Seraphim angels took a coal from the incense and touched Isaiah”s
mouth. The angel said to him, “Your guilt is taken away, your
sins are forgiven.” Then Isaiah heard the voice of the Lord call
out, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” And Isaiah said,
“Here I am Lord, send me.” And Isaiah went on to proclaim God’s
will, His presence, and the wonders God had in store for mankind: A
virgin would have a child called Emmanuel. A Suffering Servant
would take upon himself the sins of the people. He would die and
rise again. Isaiah spoke, and the people heard God.
At
least four of them were fishermen. One had been a tax
collector. One a political zealot. They were simple,
everyday men. They were not intellectuals. They were not
orators. And they lived in a world that valued rhetoric, the
ability to make a persuasive speech. How were they going to
fulfill the Lord’s command to “go out and make disciples of Jesus in
all nations.”? God took gave them the power, the ability to transform
the world.
They
gathered again in that Upper Room fifty days after Easter,
Pente--Fifty--cost. They weren’t there to grieve over the One who
had died and risen and ascended. They were there to wait.
He told them to wait. Then under the signs of wind and tongues of
fire, His Spirit, the Spirit of the Father that was present in His Own
Being, now filled their being. The Father was above. The
Son had gone to Him. But the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the
animating force of the Father and Son was now the Spirit of the
followers of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit was now their life
principle. United with Jesus, they would form the words, but the
Holy Spirit would speak. And the thousands who heard them that
day, did not need translators. The apostles formed the words, but
the Holy Spirit spoke to the people. The curse of the Tower of
Babel was reversed. The world would be united through the
language of the Spirit.
And
you and I wonder, rightly so, how it is that we can lead others to
Christ. How can we train our children, our Teens, our
grandchildren, to treasure the Lord? What should we say?
What should we do? How can we convince our neighbors, our work
companions, other people at school or at work, or in our very families,
how can we convince them that there is nothing greater in life than to
serve Jesus Christ? And the Lord says, “Receive the Holy
Spirit.” If we stay united to God, God will work His wonders
through us.
And
outside, outside the Upper Room where the disciples
gathered, outside the walls of the Church where we gather,
outside there are hundreds, thousands, millions of people longing for
an experience of God, longing for the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit.
We
are sent by the Lord, to go outside, out to the people made in the
image and likeness of God. We are called to be who we are,
committed Christians, dedicated Catholics, and then to simply let His
Spirit, the Holy Spirit of the Father and Son, work the wonders of God
in the hearts of His people.
For
today, and every day is Pentecost.
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Power of the Holy Spirit
(May 23, 2010)
Bottom line: In the days of Robin Hood, lived a man who shows what can
happen when a person opens himself to the power of the Holy Spirit.
Today we celebrate Pentecost Sunday - the culmination of the fifty days
of Easter, the day when Jesus sent the Holy Spirit upon the disciples.
Pentecost is sometimes called the "birthday of the Church." To
illustrate the importance of this day, I would like to begin with an
anecdote.
Once an American had a visitor from England. He wanted to show his
guest the marvels of our country, so he took him to Niagara Falls. From
above they could appreciate the expanse of the Falls, as they looked
from the U.S. to the Canadian side. Then they went below where the
water made a deafening noise. The American explained about the enormous
quantity of water and its great force. He had to practically shout into
his friends ear as he concluded, “There is the greatest unused power in
the world.”
The visitor was duly impressed; he had seen nothing like it in his own
country. But then, like a good Englishman, he started to think a little
deeper. "Yes," he said to his American host, "the power here is great,
but there is something much greater. The greatest unused power in the
world is the Holy Spirit of the Living God." The man has a point. Today
we are celebrating the Feast of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost Sunday. This
feast day reminds us of a power we have barely tapped into.
To illustrate what can happen when we tap into that power, I would like
to tell you a different Englishman - who many years ago opened himself
to the power of the Holy Spirit. His name was Stephen Langton. He lived
in England in the days of Robin Hood. Like Robin Hood, he wanted to
help the poor, but as a priest. Pope Innocent recognized Father
Langton's talent and appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury. King John,
however, feared Langton and exiled him to France. While in France, he
composed a wonderful hymn to the Holy Spirit: "Come Holy Spirit…Father
of the poor!…You, the best of comforters, You, the soul’s most welcome
guest." This hymn is called the "Sequence" and we listened to it before
today's Gospel.
If Langton had only written this one hymn, he would deserve
remembrance. But he did something more. Up until the thirteenth
century, no one had divided the Bible into chapters and verses. To
enable more exact reference to the Scripture, Archbishop Langton
undertook that project. Anytime someone mentions a Bible verse such as
"John 3:16" or "First Corinthians 12:4" they are taking advantage of
Langton’s great labor of love.
But there is more. When Stephen Langton returned from exile, he saw the
King ruling in an arbitrary manner. To counteract the king's injustice,
Archbishop Langton gathered the English barons at a place called
Runnymede in June of 1215. He helped them write a document which lays
out basic rights regarding taxation, due process and certain legal
protections for the Church. They called their document the Great
Charter, although we are more familiar with its Latin name - the Magna
Carta. As every schoolchild knows, the Magna Carta was the embryo from
which English democracy developed. In America – and many other
countries – we owe Archbishop Stephen Langton a huge debt.
A beautiful hymn to the Holy Spirit, an important tool for studying the
Bible and a document which launched the modern democratic experiment:
Stephen Langton shows what a person can accomplish when imbued with
Christian tradition – and open to power of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirt is the greatest untapped power in the world. In our
readings today, we see some of things the Holy Spirit makes possible:
Communication in a language deeper than words.
Inner peace.
Forgiveness of sins.
Unity of people who were formerly enemies.
Every worthwhile gift.
Renewal of the earth.
This Sunday God wants you and me to tap into the power of the Holy
Spirit. How our world would change if we allowed him to enter our
hearts! In my years as a priest many people have told me that they wish
their lives could be different. They would like to have more energy,
more enthusiasm. They want interior tranquility and a sense of purpose.
Those things come from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can energize
us, give us a new life.
I can do no better this Sunday than conclude with Stephen Langton's
hymn to the Holy Spirit. I won't read all the verses, but three stanzas
that speak about that greatest untapped power:
O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of thine,
And our inmost being fill!
On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
In your sevenfold gift descend;
Give them virtue’s sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end. Amen. Alleluia.
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May 23rd 2010 A.D.
Pentecost Sunday Jn 7 37-39
Background:
John's account of the giving of the Holy Spirit on Easter differs
from the account of the Pentecost event in the Acts of the Apostles.
Still, his short account with its double salutation of 'Peace be with
you" gives that common greeting new significance for the early
followers of Jesus and for us today.
Coupled with the commission of being sent forth as Jesus had been
sent by the Father, it sets the stage for their reception of the Holy
Spirit with its power and responsibility of forgiveness.
Story:
Once upon a time a new family moved into a neighborhood. It was a
nice neighborhood and it was very close to where the Daddy worked, so
close he could walk to work. There was only one thing wrong with the
neighborhood. Most people weren’t Irish! Yes, that’s true there are
such neighborhoods! They were Mexican and Thai, Jewish and Korean,
Japanese and Indian, Polish and Columbian, Lebanese and Chinese and
just about every other nationality that you could imagine. The children
in the neighborhood swarmed around the new kids. Are you really Irish?
We don’t have any Irish living in our neighborhood. What’s it like to
be Irish? Can you teach us Irish songs and dances and tell us Irish
stories?
Our new family was not dumb at all. They realized that there was
some pay-off in being different. They had to look up Irish songs and
stories and learn some Irish dances. They became very popular. They
also learned a lot about all the strange people (i.e. those that were
not Irish in their neighborhood and decided that while they were not
Irish it wasn’t their fault and they were pretty cool kids anyway. They
loved the cooking even if some of it was a little too spicy. Do you
want to move back to the old neighborhood, their parents asked them
anxiously. No way, said the kids, God made us all different and we
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Summary Return to All Homilies
May, 23, 2010
John 20:19-23
Demetrius R. Dumm, O.S.B.
Pentecost
Gospel Summary
There seems to be a contradiction between the coming of the Spirit as
recorded in this gospel and in the first reading from the Acts of the
Apostles. In the gospel, the Spirit is given by Jesus himself on Easter
day, whereas in Acts the Spirit comes upon the disciples at the Jewish
feast of Pentecost which occurred fifty days after Passover (2:1-4).
This dilemma appears to be resolved when we recall that the Spirit was
also given to the prophets of the Old Testament. After the resurrection
of Jesus, it is the fullness of the Spirit that is offered to us, and
this can happen in various ways and on many occasions.
What matters most is to understand the implications of this out-pouring
of God's Spirit. This is clearly presented in today's gospel where the
new presence of Jesus in the Spirit is expressed in terms of peace,
mission and forgiveness. The risen Lord addressed his disciples with
the greeting, "Peace." However, this is no longer just a wish, as is
the case when we use it as a greeting; it is now a GIFT. Living in the
Spirit of Jesus will provide us with a deep confidence that can
withstand even the most tragic experiences.
To live in the Spirit of Jesus means also to accept the mission of
making the love of the Father evident in our world and thereby to
continue and to extend the presence of Jesus in human history. The love
of Jesus is made present in our world most effectively through the
loving presence of his followers.
Jesus then breathes upon the disciples, just as God had done in the
creation story (Genesis 2:7), making clear that the new life in the
Spirit will be a challenge to us just as it was to Adam--a challenge
that will lead to life or death. Some will accept the message of Jesus
with joy and be converted and experience forgiveness. Others will
resist the good news as they cling to selfish ways and thus remain in
sinful rebellion.
Life Implications
Many years ago, I heard one of our older monks say about a young
novice, "That one has the Spirit." What he seemed to suggest was that
this novice was imbued with such a spirit of quiet, confident joy that
he was able to go about his work and prayer in a way that seemed so
natural and so spontaneous that it could almost be called instinctive.
He was reveling in life, not enduring it.
That novice had, of course, the great advantage of being young and
healthy. But we all know older persons also who have experienced the
sorrows as well as the joys of life and who still seem so peaceful and
confident. This cannot be simply a matter of personal disposition. This
can only happen when we open ourselves fully to the Spirit of God.
When we live in this positive and loving way, we are fulfilling the
mission of Jesus in our world. We may seem to be warming and redeeming
only the small, chilly space that we happen to occupy in life but our
kindness radiates in fact in wonderful ways to touch the whole world.
This loving concern will also include the precious gift of
forgiveness--a gift that heals and reconciles and liberates. To be a
follower of Jesus is a blessing; to "have the Spirit" is the fullness
of that blessing.
Demetrius R. Dumm, O.S.B.
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Solemnity of PENTECOST
Acts 2, 1-11; Psalm 104; 1 Cor 12, 3-7. 12-13; John 20, 19-23
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
As the third millennium draws near some are filled with dread, their
minds given over to imaginings and fantasies. Some are drawn to groups
which preach superstition, placing hope in the comets or imaginary
creatures from other planets. These idolatries are an abomination. "You
shall have no other Gods before me." For Christians, the 2000th year
after Christ's birth marks the renewal of life in the fullness of the
Holy Spirit and renewed commitment to the true faith bestowed in Jesus
Christ. Both are gifts of God the Father to the Church in these "last
days" before Christ comes again.
On the day of Pentecost when the seven weeks of Easter had come to an
end, Christ's Passover is fulfilled in the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit, manifested, given, and communicated as a divine person: of his
fullness, Christ, the Lord, pours out the Spirit in abundance. (Cf.
Acts 2:33-36) (CCC 731)
The Lord Jesus associates the Church with himself, so that the body of
believers are one in the Holy Spirit and the "Body of Christ". St. Paul
learned this well when, thrown from his horse in the midst of his
vociferous persecution of Christians, Christ called out to him, "Saul,
Saul, why are you persecuting me?"
The Eucharistic Sacrifice is the most perfect earthly work of the
Church. Our role as baptized members of the Body of Christ reaches its
most exalted moment each time we offer ourselves as a spiritual
sacrifice in union with Christ through the prayers and hymns of the
Eucharist.
At last Jesus' hour arrives: (Cf. Jn 13:1; 17:1) he commends his spirit
into the Father's hands (Cf. Lk 23:46; Jn 19:30) at the very moment
when by his death he conquers death, so that, "raised from the dead by
the glory of the Father," (Rom 6:4) he might immediately give the Holy
Spirit by "breathing" on his disciples. (Cf. Jn 20:22) From this hour
onward, the mission of Christ and the Spirit becomes the mission of the
Church: "As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." (Jn 20:21; cf.
Mt 28:19; Lk 24:47-48; Acts 1:8) (CCC 731)
I look forward to meeting you here again next week as, together, we
"meet Christ in the liturgy", Father Cusick
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Pentecost Sunday
In the Book of Genesis we read how God made man into a living creature
by breathing life into him (Genesis 2:7) and today in our Gospel text
God breathes life into the Church through the breath of the Holy
Spirit. The Bible is full of such wonderful parallels; we read about
incidents in the distant past which are suddenly given new relevance
when they find an echo in the New Testament.
This outpouring of the breath of God is not restricted to the Day of
Pentecost but continues to blow through the Church and through our
lives. Its transforming power is accessible to all who are open to it.
There are some significant differences in the two accounts of the same
event presented to us today. Luke in his Acts of the Apostles describes
the Day of Pentecost. It occurs on the Jewish Feast of Weeks so-named
because it occurs seven weeks after the Passover. Pentecost is a
harvest festival and this explains the presence of people from every
nation. They were there not only to worship but also to trade in the
produce of the new harvest.
Luke records the disciple’s dramatic encounter with the Spirit in the
form of a great wind and tongues of flame. They leave the Upper Room
and begin to preach the Gospel using the miraculous gift of languages
just bestowed on them.
John’s account is noticeably different. One of the greatest differences
is the date on which the giving of the Spirit took place. Instead of
the Day of Pentecost, fifty days later, John’s version occurs on the
very day of the resurrection itself. The resurrection has taken place
in the morning and in his account he states that it is: ‘the evening of
the first day of the week.’
There is an important significance in this emphasis on the first day of
the week –the day of the resurrection. Up till then the day of worship
was always the last day of the week, the Sabbath, since in the account
of creation we are told that God rested on the seventh day. But the
resurrection has caused a complete disconnection in time and
henceforward it is the first day of the week that will become the new
focus.
The birth of the Church marks a new beginning and therefore a new way
of calculating time, everything now taking its significance from the
resurrection and becoming a new creation. This switch in significance
from the last day to the first day of the week also reflects a distinct
change of emphasis; we no longer look backwards we now look forwards.
Another important difference is that it is Jesus who imparts the Spirit
by breathing on the disciples and at the same time giving them the
power to bind and loose. John wants to emphasise that it is Jesus who
founds the Church. As we have seen his breath blows life into them and
creates the Church.
The Persons of the Trinity while distinct should not be seen as
separate from one another, they are as intimate with each other as it
is possible to be. And John makes it especially clear that the Holy
Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus are one and the same.
The two words breath and spirit are the same in Hebrew and so as Jesus
breathes on them and gives them new life he simultaneously imparts the
Spirit to them.
We should not be over concerned by the differences in these two
accounts of the Birth of the Church. Perhaps because of the ascendancy
of science in the modern world we are today overly preoccupied with
historical accuracy.
What is of far more importance to the Evangelists, though, is spiritual
or theological accuracy. It is the meaning of the events that are far
more important than the precise physical details. Our critics often
focus on the particularities of time and space to pick holes in our
belief in Christ but we do not look upon the Gospel accounts as a
detailed point-by-point, minute-by-minute retelling of the life of
Jesus.
What we are interested in is the significance of what happened. The
differences between Luke and John should not therefore be seen as in
competition with one another but as complimentary accounts with
different emphases.
In John’s version the disciples are given authority, what we often call
the power to loose and bind. ‘Those whose sins you forgive, they are
forgiven; those whose sins you retain, they are retained.’ This is the
basic text which underpins the Sacrament of Reconciliation and is
therefore of great importance in the life of the Church.
I have often wondered about those words and frequently asked myself why
Jesus put it in that particular way? Surely the role of a priest is to
forgive sins, so why is the retention of sins given equal weight? For a
long time this was a puzzle to me.
Now I understand quite well that in the Sacrament of Reconciliation the
priest doesn’t dispense absolution willy-nilly. He exercises judgement
and needs to see that the basic requirements are fulfilled: true
penitence, firm purpose of amendment and the desire to make restitution.
But nevertheless the priest’s job is to be a fountain of forgiveness
and reconciliation for the whole community and one of his important
roles is to do everything he can to help people to arrive at those
preconditions for absolution.
I decided to look the question up and discovered that this mode of
speech simply describes the breadth of the authority bequeathed to
them. Just as we would say flesh and blood to describe a whole person
or left and right to encompass the entire horizon. Giving them the
power to bind and loose means that they have complete authority in
matters of sin.
These two accounts of essentially the same event compliment one
another. Luke emphasises the drama while John points up the intimacy of
the occasion. Both occur in the Upper Room but Luke blurs the
difference between inside and outside. One minute they are locked in
the room and the next minute they seem to be outside talking to the
people when there is no obvious transition in the text.
For John these events occur only in the Upper Room and the disciples
remain there afterwards. You will remember that Thomas turns up later
and doesn’t believe that Jesus can have appeared.
Luke emphasises the disturbing nature of the Spirit whereas in John the
emphasis is on peace, Jesus repeating his greeting ‘Peace be with you’
twice.
As I have said, we shouldn’t be disturbed by the fact that in the
scriptures there are two completely different ways of looking at the
same event. After all what we are dealing with is the birth of the new
creation and as with the first creation here we have two different
accounts by two different hands. Just think of the account of the
creation in seven days and then the other account of creation given in
the story of the Garden of Eden.
The essentials are the same, the emphases different. Luke and John
provide us with distinct but equally rich theological perspectives on
the birth of the Church. They give us plenty of food for meditation and
prayer. They point up the significance for the world of the birth of
the Church and the task given to us to enable all mankind to experience
the Good News of salvation.
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