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Word Columns for Sunday June 24th

Tim ReidyJune 18, 2007
Daniel Harrington’s commentary on the Birth of St. John the Baptist can be found here. The feast did not fall on a Sunday in 2004, so there is no commentary from Dianne Bergant. But you can read John H. Donahue’s column from 2001 here.
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