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The Sacrament Of War And Peace!
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Two Kings And Three Prophets For Less Than A Quarter
First Lesson Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (First Third) Cycle C
As dawn awakened one August morning over a tiny French village called Pielo, its citizens were herded into the village square to face a Nazi firing squad. It was 1944 and the enemy had routed out a small unit of French underground freedom fighters in the village the night before. Among the villagers was a fifteen-year-old boy. He did not really understand why, but he knew that the intention of the occupying forces was to shoot them all. He looked at the villagers all around him and realized that almost all of them were older than he was. They had lived a long time.
