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First Comes An Everyday Hope
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Sermons On The First Readings
Series I, Cycle A
Today's great spiritual priority may be for a grounded everyday hope. "When I taught high school in the inner city community of Watts in Los Angeles, I was most troubled by the lack of any sign of hope reflected in the faces of my students," says American poet Maya Angelou. This holds true all over our world. The dominant religious need of our time seems to be for a solid hope. This need seems as strong in the jaded, bored, and frantic persons of privileged classes as well as those at the bottom of the socio--economic heap.
