What are you doing to get involved on campus?
In observance of the Lenten season, Campus Ministry and the A.L.I.V.E. Club invite you to participate in our RELAY FOR LIFE service opportunity.
Lent is known as a time of prayer, penance, and almsgiving. Throughout the season of Lent, it is common to give up something or to do something to better your life for those 40 days.
For example, if you really love chocolate and sweets, it would be difficult to go without it for that long period of time, right? Well this is more of a reason to give it up.
To take this process one step further, we are inviting you to:
(1) Write what you are giving up on one of the paper leaves in the basket in the Chapel or in the Brennan display case and tape your leaf onto image of the tree.
(2) Make a personal commitment to make a small donation towards Relay For Life when (or if) you slip up on your Lenten promise, such as eating that piece of chocolate you promised you wouldn’t.
(3) To show your solidarity with Relay for Life, wear one a purple strings (also at the Chapel and in the Brennan display case) on your wrist during Lent
(4) Bring your donation to the Relay For Life Mass in the McLean Chapel on Sunday, March 18th at 7 PM.
Relay For Life is an event to commemorate those who have fought the battle of cancer. As some of you may know, Relay For Life will be on the Holy Names campus March 20 to the 21st. If you would like to sign up for a team or start your own team, please visit www.RelayForLife.org/HNUCA
Written by HNU Sophomore, Misty Martinez
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Black History Month, Continued
Campus Ministry continues to celebrate Black History Month by hearing the words and honoring the contributions of selected African-American women at the beginning of each Mass. Last Sunday we paid homage to Sojourner Truth.
HNU Freshman Morgan Butler writes:
In the mid 1800s, one of the most famous leaders of the black women’s suffrage movement was born under the name of Isabella Baumfree. Later, after a spell-bound religious conversion, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth. Although born a slave she was blessed enough to be born in the liberal State of New York. Among the many scholars, freedom fighters, religious leaders, and artists of the black community, Sojourner Truth stands as an individual. Being both a freedom fighter and religious leader, Sojourner Truth delivered a sense of pride to her people and uplifted the spirits of women to this day. She is the symbol of self righteousness for both women of color and of other backgrounds. During her lifespan she gave her time and devotion to her church and to women. With her quick-witted tongue and hot-tempered speeches she helped pave the path for the both the women’s suffrage movement and the African American struggle to freedom.
One Sojourner Truth’s most famous speeches, “Aint I Woman,” was given at the Women’s Rights Convention in 1850. Here is an excerpt from that speech:
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
Ash Wednesday Reflection, by Kelly Ryan
Leaving Behind Easy for Good
Kelly Ryan
Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Holy Names University
Beloved, remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Our lives are fleeting. They’re like remnants after a consuming fire. We are blessed today by our own mortality, as ash is wiped across our foreheads and falls dusty onto our nose. We are reminded that we are fleeting on this earth, among billions of others who are just as fleeting. Just like everyone else, we were born, there was a time when we did not exist, and there will be a time just like for everyone else when we will stop breathing, and die, and become dust again. This is deeply humbling, and I think it is also good news—almost a relief. We are in control of only a small portion of our lives, and God holds the parts which we do not.
The theme during this time of Lent in our community here is “from desert to paradise.” In the scripture from Joel today, we’re in a land that is beyond the control of its people, and is becoming a desert before their eyes. A cloud of locusts blackens the sky. They eat everything. Every aspect of life and livelihood, the locusts have decimated. Vegetation, crops, and fruit-bearing trees have been stripped to the whiteness of their bark, farm animals have no food to eat, and even the grain brought in arms to the temple to burn as an offering to worship God is gone. Before this destruction, the land is like the Garden of Eden, but after it is a desolate wilderness. Unknown, harsh, and disorienting.
This is a hard God to look at. A God whose coming day brings destruction and fear. Who brings natural disaster upon a people who do not fulfill their end of their promise between them and God. Whose anger becomes like an attack. How do we meet a God who does this? How do we love a God, and trust a God who does this?
Notice though that the focus turns to repentance, not the sin itself. In this story, God shows more interest in the response of a people before God rather than on the sin itself they committed that distanced themselves from God. While the sin, the estrangement, still happened, the point of the story is how we return to God.
Further, this story, like so many stories in the Bible, points out a hard fact: we’re not in control. We’re not the masters of our fates. In times like the story of Joel, that’s really scary. And even while its scary, it can also be good.
I can’t help but think of this moment in the Narnia series, in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, where Aslan, who appears as a Lion, is a majestic and mysterious creature. Right before Susan is about to meet Aslan, she asks tentatively of another character, “Ooh, I thought he was a man. Is he – quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.”
The other character says, “That you will dearie, and no mistake, if there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or just plain silly”
“Then He isn’t safe?”
“Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good.”
I have thought a lot about what it might mean if God isn’t there to make us just feel good and easy, but is the fierce source of goodness itself. It’s hard, because I’ve so often heard watered-down versions of the story of following Jesus. Things that make people who already feel pretty good about themselves feel better.
Like, God loves everyone just the way they are.
God wants us to be nice.
In his teachings, Jesus shows us a better example of how to live.
Yes, these are all true, but they are far from the end point. God absolutely loves you just the way you are—and loves you too much to leave you there.
Sometimes God wants us to be nice, but moreover God wants us to be bold, and sometimes rude, in matters of life and death.
Jesus shows us a better example of how to live—but inescapably, it ends at the cross.
When we follow Jesus, parts of us die. In Lent, we die little by little to ourselves. But we accumulate a lot of junk on ourselves, and I think it’s a gift of Lent to be able to slough that off. To gain clarity as layers fall away. And when we develop a physical practice like the fasts and commitments in Lent, our spiritual practice is developed as well. To clean out the house of our heart, so that there is space for us to receive God. It’s not always safe, or popular, and it’s usually not easy, but it is so. good. Because it calls us back to the source of all goodness, the source of goodness we were created in, and the essence of love.
And so, with a God who is infinite good in our court, the fact that we are not in control can be the best thing—we aren’t in control of our lives by ourselves. We have an infinitely good God working with us in our lives.
And it is no coincidence that Lent is 40 days. Jesus also wandered for forty days in the wilderness, and the Israelites wandered for forty years in the desert. Like Jesus, and like the Israelites, we may be tested. We may be faced with our own limitations. Our own failures. Our own finitude. Our moments of distrust, and of longing for places that were more comfortable, broken-in, easier, but not better for us. And in this time and these tests, the answer is “God.”
These forty days are a journey that reconciles the points where we get off track. In Lent, we tune parts of our lives to make the call of God come in a little clearer. It is a journey of our intimacy and estrangement with God. Many theologians over the centuries have defined sin as estrangement from God. Where God seems far off, and things make less sense. Sin is a terribly loaded word, but I think it boils down to: What makes you feel stingy with love? Do less of that. What makes you truly love more? Do much, much more of that.
And the gospel passage reminds us true intimacy is not just acts you do, or looking like you have a relationship with God; it is sharing your soul, counting on God and knowing you can, feeling that nothing is too ugly or shameful to bring before God, because in the end you are held in unconditional love. So this love gives us room to admit when we fall short of all we could be, because those shortcomings are still not the final word. And we have value not because of the things we do or do not do, but because God loves us first.
So I hope that this is a time when we are bold to rend our hearts, not just our garments. To brave the parts of ourselves that we feel ashamed of, that we keep hidden in darkness, that we deny are parts of us. It’s safe and easy to leave these places stale in darkness, but I want to encourage you to be bold and hold them up to the light. I hope we can notice these places and bring them before God. Because no matter what ugliness we dredge up, God’s steadfast love is the final word.
This is a hard time, a trying time, but God is with us, reminding us that in all times, we are held in an eternal, unconditional love. We are mortal, just dust, but dust animated with the breath of God and loved with a love that existed before time and will after. We belong to an existence that is so much bigger than just one person.
And in this time that calls for self-denial, I cannot still in good conscience preach self-denial to anyone who already denies themselves in ways that are damaging. Lent is getting to the core of who you are and whose you are in God, and for many people that entails giving something up. But for someone who struggles with anorexia, or is the primary caregiver to your family, taking care of everyone but yourself, or someone who works two jobs, too many hours a week, I want to implore you to add self-care on. Give up self-defeating thoughts. Give up self-harm. Give up apologizing as a reflex. Give up silence.
We all come from different places, and may have different ways to grow closer to God during Lent. The whole goal is intimacy with God, at the end, not pure self-denial. Self-denial is often the means, but the end is relationship. Authentic, intimate relationship. I encourage you to think thoroughly and prayerfully about what practices, in your own circumstances, will open your heart to God.
And I invite you, with words from artist Jan L. Richardson,
Rend Your Heart
A Blessing for Ash Wednesday
To receive this blessing,
all you have to dois let your heart break.
Let it crack open.
Let it fall apartso that you can seeits secret chambers,
the hidden spaceswhere you have hesitatedto go.
Your entire lifeis here, inscribed wholeupon your heart’s walls:
every path takenor left behind,every face you turned towardor turned away,
every word spoken in loveor in rage,
every line of your lifeyou would prefer to leavein shadow,
every story that shimmerswith treasures knownand those you have yetto find.
It could take you daysto wander these rooms.
Forty, at least.
And so let this bea season for wandering
for trusting the breakingfor tracing the tearthat will return you
to the One who waitswho watches
who works withinthe rendingto make your heart
whole.
Kelly Ryan
Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Holy Names University
Beloved, remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Our lives are fleeting. They’re like remnants after a consuming fire. We are blessed today by our own mortality, as ash is wiped across our foreheads and falls dusty onto our nose. We are reminded that we are fleeting on this earth, among billions of others who are just as fleeting. Just like everyone else, we were born, there was a time when we did not exist, and there will be a time just like for everyone else when we will stop breathing, and die, and become dust again. This is deeply humbling, and I think it is also good news—almost a relief. We are in control of only a small portion of our lives, and God holds the parts which we do not.
The theme during this time of Lent in our community here is “from desert to paradise.” In the scripture from Joel today, we’re in a land that is beyond the control of its people, and is becoming a desert before their eyes. A cloud of locusts blackens the sky. They eat everything. Every aspect of life and livelihood, the locusts have decimated. Vegetation, crops, and fruit-bearing trees have been stripped to the whiteness of their bark, farm animals have no food to eat, and even the grain brought in arms to the temple to burn as an offering to worship God is gone. Before this destruction, the land is like the Garden of Eden, but after it is a desolate wilderness. Unknown, harsh, and disorienting.
This is a hard God to look at. A God whose coming day brings destruction and fear. Who brings natural disaster upon a people who do not fulfill their end of their promise between them and God. Whose anger becomes like an attack. How do we meet a God who does this? How do we love a God, and trust a God who does this?
Notice though that the focus turns to repentance, not the sin itself. In this story, God shows more interest in the response of a people before God rather than on the sin itself they committed that distanced themselves from God. While the sin, the estrangement, still happened, the point of the story is how we return to God.
Further, this story, like so many stories in the Bible, points out a hard fact: we’re not in control. We’re not the masters of our fates. In times like the story of Joel, that’s really scary. And even while its scary, it can also be good.
I can’t help but think of this moment in the Narnia series, in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, where Aslan, who appears as a Lion, is a majestic and mysterious creature. Right before Susan is about to meet Aslan, she asks tentatively of another character, “Ooh, I thought he was a man. Is he – quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.”
The other character says, “That you will dearie, and no mistake, if there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or just plain silly”
“Then He isn’t safe?”
“Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good.”
I have thought a lot about what it might mean if God isn’t there to make us just feel good and easy, but is the fierce source of goodness itself. It’s hard, because I’ve so often heard watered-down versions of the story of following Jesus. Things that make people who already feel pretty good about themselves feel better.
Like, God loves everyone just the way they are.
God wants us to be nice.
In his teachings, Jesus shows us a better example of how to live.
Yes, these are all true, but they are far from the end point. God absolutely loves you just the way you are—and loves you too much to leave you there.
Sometimes God wants us to be nice, but moreover God wants us to be bold, and sometimes rude, in matters of life and death.
Jesus shows us a better example of how to live—but inescapably, it ends at the cross.
When we follow Jesus, parts of us die. In Lent, we die little by little to ourselves. But we accumulate a lot of junk on ourselves, and I think it’s a gift of Lent to be able to slough that off. To gain clarity as layers fall away. And when we develop a physical practice like the fasts and commitments in Lent, our spiritual practice is developed as well. To clean out the house of our heart, so that there is space for us to receive God. It’s not always safe, or popular, and it’s usually not easy, but it is so. good. Because it calls us back to the source of all goodness, the source of goodness we were created in, and the essence of love.
And so, with a God who is infinite good in our court, the fact that we are not in control can be the best thing—we aren’t in control of our lives by ourselves. We have an infinitely good God working with us in our lives.
And it is no coincidence that Lent is 40 days. Jesus also wandered for forty days in the wilderness, and the Israelites wandered for forty years in the desert. Like Jesus, and like the Israelites, we may be tested. We may be faced with our own limitations. Our own failures. Our own finitude. Our moments of distrust, and of longing for places that were more comfortable, broken-in, easier, but not better for us. And in this time and these tests, the answer is “God.”
These forty days are a journey that reconciles the points where we get off track. In Lent, we tune parts of our lives to make the call of God come in a little clearer. It is a journey of our intimacy and estrangement with God. Many theologians over the centuries have defined sin as estrangement from God. Where God seems far off, and things make less sense. Sin is a terribly loaded word, but I think it boils down to: What makes you feel stingy with love? Do less of that. What makes you truly love more? Do much, much more of that.
And the gospel passage reminds us true intimacy is not just acts you do, or looking like you have a relationship with God; it is sharing your soul, counting on God and knowing you can, feeling that nothing is too ugly or shameful to bring before God, because in the end you are held in unconditional love. So this love gives us room to admit when we fall short of all we could be, because those shortcomings are still not the final word. And we have value not because of the things we do or do not do, but because God loves us first.
So I hope that this is a time when we are bold to rend our hearts, not just our garments. To brave the parts of ourselves that we feel ashamed of, that we keep hidden in darkness, that we deny are parts of us. It’s safe and easy to leave these places stale in darkness, but I want to encourage you to be bold and hold them up to the light. I hope we can notice these places and bring them before God. Because no matter what ugliness we dredge up, God’s steadfast love is the final word.
This is a hard time, a trying time, but God is with us, reminding us that in all times, we are held in an eternal, unconditional love. We are mortal, just dust, but dust animated with the breath of God and loved with a love that existed before time and will after. We belong to an existence that is so much bigger than just one person.
And in this time that calls for self-denial, I cannot still in good conscience preach self-denial to anyone who already denies themselves in ways that are damaging. Lent is getting to the core of who you are and whose you are in God, and for many people that entails giving something up. But for someone who struggles with anorexia, or is the primary caregiver to your family, taking care of everyone but yourself, or someone who works two jobs, too many hours a week, I want to implore you to add self-care on. Give up self-defeating thoughts. Give up self-harm. Give up apologizing as a reflex. Give up silence.
We all come from different places, and may have different ways to grow closer to God during Lent. The whole goal is intimacy with God, at the end, not pure self-denial. Self-denial is often the means, but the end is relationship. Authentic, intimate relationship. I encourage you to think thoroughly and prayerfully about what practices, in your own circumstances, will open your heart to God.
And I invite you, with words from artist Jan L. Richardson,
Rend Your Heart
A Blessing for Ash Wednesday
To receive this blessing,
all you have to dois let your heart break.
Let it crack open.
Let it fall apartso that you can seeits secret chambers,
the hidden spaceswhere you have hesitatedto go.
Your entire lifeis here, inscribed wholeupon your heart’s walls:
every path takenor left behind,every face you turned towardor turned away,
every word spoken in loveor in rage,
every line of your lifeyou would prefer to leavein shadow,
every story that shimmerswith treasures knownand those you have yetto find.
It could take you daysto wander these rooms.
Forty, at least.
And so let this bea season for wandering
for trusting the breakingfor tracing the tearthat will return you
to the One who waitswho watches
who works withinthe rendingto make your heart
whole.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Documentary: Our Right to Sing
Join Campus Ministry on:
Friday, February 24th
in the Sophia Room
from 12:15pm to 1:15pm
Director Carolina Fuentes will be present for discussion and questions
Our Right to Sing explores the role of music in the resistance movement of El Salvador during two decades of military dictatorship
Director Bio:
Carolina Fuentes holds a Masters Degree in Social Documentation from The University of California, Santa Cruz and is an award-winning radio and television journalist spanning a lengthy career with PBS Radio Billingue and Univision. She is twice winner of the Golden Apple Media Award, granted by the California School Boards Foundation; and Emmy nominated for her investigative report exposing the abuses against undocumented immigrants at an INS facility in Harlingen, Texas. In a collective award to journalists for the national news coverage of September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Carolina was recognized for her reporting contributions, by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Friday, February 24th
in the Sophia Room
from 12:15pm to 1:15pm
Director Carolina Fuentes will be present for discussion and questions
Our Right to Sing explores the role of music in the resistance movement of El Salvador during two decades of military dictatorship
Director Bio:
Carolina Fuentes holds a Masters Degree in Social Documentation from The University of California, Santa Cruz and is an award-winning radio and television journalist spanning a lengthy career with PBS Radio Billingue and Univision. She is twice winner of the Golden Apple Media Award, granted by the California School Boards Foundation; and Emmy nominated for her investigative report exposing the abuses against undocumented immigrants at an INS facility in Harlingen, Texas. In a collective award to journalists for the national news coverage of September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Carolina was recognized for her reporting contributions, by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Her most recent work is the documentary film titled, Our Right To Sing. The project examines the role of music in the resistance movement of El Salvador during two decades of military dictatorship. Fueled by her research at the University of California, Santa Cruz, , the documentary project has won a prestigious fellowship from the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently being screened internationally.
Fuentes’ thesis documentary project, Our Right to Sing, is the first of its kind. Until now, there has not been a film on the musical byproduct of this collective experience – something Fuentes witnessed first-hand as member of a musical group inspired by the principles of Liberation Theology and with the arson of the San Jose Catholic Church, where she was parishioner. After the assassination of friends and classmates – Fuentes fled from her native El Salvador to Mexico where she lived seven years and completed her Bachelors Degree in Social Psychology at The University of Queretaro.
Before her immigration to the US in 1989, she worked in Mexico City with Central American refugee children and families fleeing the horrors of war in their home countries. For the last seventeen years living in the U.S., Fuentes has continued to champion social change through her feature stories and now her feature documentary. At present, she is screening her latest work on the protest music of El Salvador, hoping to join with the efforts of human rights activists, in constructing a historical memory of the civil war in El Salvador.
“The San Jose church in El Salvador was one of the first Christian base
communities where from the inception of the theology of Liberation, young people
began to reflect upon our social reality. I was one of the singers in our musical group
called, “El Sembrador”. These were the seventies and my country was living under
a military dictatorship. In 1975 a provoked fire destroyed our church and although
the flames devoured our instruments, our voices were not extinguished.
“Our Right to Sing”, has taken me back to my country to collect the stories
of the young people from the 1970’s who denounced injustice by creating music,
poetry, and popular theatre. These individuals became the collective voice the
dictatorship could not silence. With the fellowship granted by the Berkeley Human
Rights center I have documented the role of music in constructing a historical
memory of the civil war, which killed more than 70 thousand Salvadorans. The film
explores the power of music in constructing a collective memory. Musicians tell us
how during two decades of military dictatorship terror and during the post war they
have defended their right to create popular art as a powerful voice in the struggle
for social justice.”
- C. Fuentes
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Black History Month, Continued
Harriet Tubman
1820 – March 10, 1913
1820 – March 10, 1913
(Because she was a slave, and owners did not record their slaves' birthdates,
the exact date of Harriet's birth is unknown -- different accounts list 1820 or 1821.)
Campus Ministry continues to celebrate Black History Month by hearing the words and honoring the contributions of selected African-American women at the beginning of each Mass. Last Sunday we paid homage to Harriet Tubman.
"Born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Tubman gained international acclaim as an Underground Railroad operator, abolitionist, Civil War spy and nurse, suffragist, and humanitarian. After escaping from enslavement in 1849, Tubman dedicated herself to fighting for freedom, equality, and justice for the remainder of her long life, earning her the biblical name "Moses" and a place among the nation's most famous historical figures."
In her own words:
"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."
"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."
"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped."
"I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger."
Ash Wednesday Service of Ashes & Mass
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
in the McLean Chapel
in the McLean Chapel
Serviceof Ashes: 12:30-1:15 PM
Mass with Ashes: 5-6PM
Reflection: Kelly Ryan, Campus Ministry Intern
Please join us as we enter the blessed wilderness of the Lenten season
and journey together toward Easter.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Called & Gifted Workshop
Who Am I?Why Am I Here?
Discover your unique spiritual gifts…
The Spiritual Gifts Discernment Program is specially designed to help us to discern the gifts of the Spirit, or charisms, that have been given to us, and to help us begin to learn how to use those gifts to serve God and others.
- Take the Catholic Spiritual Gifts Inventory;
- Learn the signs and characteristics of twenty-four of the most common charisms;
- Learn the five steps of discerning your own charisms;
- Begin your own discernment process;
- Understand some of the implications of gift discernment for using your gifts in service of others.
Three Sessions:
Sundays: 2/12, 2/19, 2/26
8:15PM, in the McLean Chapel
Interested? Contact Carrie Rehak, Director of Campus Ministry
Founders' Hall C, Ext. 1081
Black History Month in the Chapel
Maya Angelou1928-
Black History Month is here, and this year's theme is "Women."
Campus Ministry is joining in the celebration by hearing the words and honoring the contributions of selected African-American women at the beginning of each Mass.
We opened yesterday by paying homage to poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou.
Campus Ministry is joining in the celebration by hearing the words and honoring the contributions of selected African-American women at the beginning of each Mass.
We opened yesterday by paying homage to poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou.
"I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition -- about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive."
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
"The honorary duty of a human being is to love."
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
"Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style."
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
Relationships, Sexuality, and Boundaries Workshop Series
Join us This Week: "Relationships" Wednesday, Feb 8th - 8 p.m. - in the Hawk’s Nest
Join us for an hour-long workshop on relationships and commitment.
We will articulate values around relationships, and explore the differences between love and lust.
Presented by Kelly Ryan, Graduate Intern for Spiritual Formation
Sponsored by the A.L.I.V.E. Club
Coming up:
Boundaries and Communication: Feb. 29th
Sexuality: April 11th
Email cmintern@hnu.edu with questions.
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