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The Second Annual Catholic Immigration Summit will be at Seattle University’s Campion Hall on Saturday, March 10th 2018 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.  This year’s theme is “My liberation is bound up with yours!”  Join our Bishops and Catholics from around the region as we share our immigrant journeys – old and new – and together discern where we need to go. 

About two years ago, a study at Columbia University found some rather alarming information. It’s about noise. The study found that just walking city streets can put you at risk of going deaf.

I read a story in the New York Times last week. It was a column by their business issues and technology editor. He voiced a common complaint, about emails. He said that in December, he had 46,315 unread emails in his inbox.

The first story that we hear today comes from the book of Samuel. It is a book about a tone-deaf tribe whose vision was blurred.

Today as we celebrate the solemn feast of the epiphany, the feast of the unexpected shining forth of the glory of God in an unexpected place, we complete the cycle of our advent and Christmas seasons.

Today, good sisters and brothers, we celebrate the beginning of the new year.