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> The agency helped to craft the plan known as Some Definite Service — a quotation from the English theologian St. John Henry Newman’s celebrated reflection on God’s call to each person to fulfill their mission within the Church.

I like this name for a plan. It is a little uncanny to me to see it right now because I was looking for a different quote earlier today on the internet (I could not remember enough words to find it) and kept finding St. JHN's quote instead.

> Through discernment, she discovered she had the spiritual gift of encouragement

I like this also: different people have different gifts, and administration (as a charism) is deploying the right gifts in the right places (if I am remembering a podcast correctly.)

> People are talking a lot more about the need to evangelize. More and more people who were doing it in an atomized, or limited, or local manner are being connected one with another.

This reminds me of someone (from some time and place when we burned wood a lot more than I do) writing about coals that are raked together staying hot, vs. coals that are scattered that go out.

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