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Articles13 May 2010 11:50 am
Article8 – FORGIVENESS IS NOT A SUBSTITUE FOR JUSTICE
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FORGIVENESS IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
– POPE BENEDICT XVI.
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THIS IS THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR, eastwind (BERNIE LOPEZ), AND DOES NOT IN ANY WAY REFLECT THE OPINION OR VIEWPOINT OF THE HEALING MINISTRY OR THE RVM CONGREGATION.
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Pope Benedict has finally given a proper reply, “forgiveness is not a substitute for justice”. It is an admittance of guilt and an act of humility. Now, the controversy can be laid to rest, but only if there is the final act of the Church telling all and surrendering the guilty to the authorities. Until that is done, there is no justice.
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Earlier, the Pope had dialogues with victims and their families, which failed to exonerate the Church. In fact, it made the Church look more guilty. Apology was not the issue, but justice.
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Earlier, many came to the rescue of the Pope but their defenses, although eloquent and articulate, skirted around the issue of culpability and admittance of guilt. It had the same effect of making the Church more guilty. All the ‘nice’ arguments made the Church position worse. It was the Pope’s final reply which saved the day for the Church.
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For example, French historian Alain Besancon “noted that the media campaign against the Holy Father and the Church reveals a hatred for Christianity, and that the Pope is confronting the ‘self-destruction’ of society, nature and reason” (CNN/EWTN News, April 20, 2010, L’Observatore Romano). This is a very bad fallacious argument. There is no ‘media campaign against the Holy Father and the Church’. The Church brought it upon itself to be a subject of the media.
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There is no ‘hatred for Christianity’. The Church is not beyond criticism. It is capable of human errors. Criticism is not ‘hatred’ and is in fact not only good but necessary to catalyze reforms, to cleanse the Church. There is no ‘self-destruction’ of society. Let us not call a spade a clover. They are twisting the issue of the Church guilty of cover-up. The Pope’s admittance is in truth the saving grace for the Church, not these false arguments, these futile attempts to save the image of the Church.
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Besancon further said, “Benedict XVI has fought untiringly for clarity and accuracy. For him there is nothing more dangerous than the relativism that is fused with modern democratic society: any organized group can legitimize an opinion merely because it is their opinion without the need to support it with reason,” This is intellectual gibberish attempting to put the blame on ‘relativism’ … of ‘democratic society’. The opinion is not ‘organized’ and is not being ‘legitimized’. It is supported with reason, namely, cover up of crimes.
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There was a lengthy homily by a priest who said the lesson is for us to focus ourselves on ‘holiness’ once again. True. But no, the lesson is for us to not cover up crimes and to bring justice to the victims, which is the essence of holiness based on justice.
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It is about time the Church gets its act together. The Church is as much human as it is divine. Throughout history, it has faltered (Reformation) then surged forward (Counter Reformation). There is the human aspect of error and correction, of stumbling then standing up once again. The age of darkness in the Church is followed by the age light in a cyclic manner throughout history. The Church has to solve the case of pedophile priests once and for all and launch a new spiritual reformation at the parish level, otherwise a new crisis will haunt it. There is no escape. Every stone will not be left unturned.
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The Lord will appreciate this new spiritual reformation. Let us not be obsessed with the image of the Church tarnished. Let it be tarnished if it is indeed tarnished. Let us untarnish it with justice and transparency. Sweeping it under the rug will not untarnish it but tarnish it more. Let us confront the problem, not go around it.
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Articles22 Apr 2010 07:23 pm
article7 - CONVERSATIONS WITH SISTER RAQUEL
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CONVERSATIONS WITH SISTER RAQUEL
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OVER LUNCH, SISTER AND I STARTED CONVERSING ABOUT THE HEALING MINISTRY.
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BERNIE
Sister, how are you doing in the evening calls from those seeking healing. Can you handle so many calls worldwide? How many calls do you get average anyway per day?
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SR RAQUEL
I get about three.
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BERNIE
That’s not so bad.
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SR RAQUEL
But you must realize, Bernie, these are not ordinary calls. They require a lot of energy even over the phone. After three calls, I have to rest and recharge, otherwise I cannot be effective. In fact, three is enough. It is hard for me to refuse a call even if I am tired. When I hear over the phone someone who cannot breathe, how can I refuse even if I am tired? My conscience says ‘forget your tiredness’.
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The other sisters know this, so they help in my dilemma by handling the calls. They look at me and signal non-verbally if I can take one more call. At least I have the option to say yes or no according to my disposition. In many cases, we ask them to call back in an hour or tomorrow, and they do.
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BERNIE
You can do only so much, Sister. At times, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I understand there are many more callers but you answer the phone only in specific hours. Understandable, you cannot answer calls 24 hours a day.
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SR RAQUEL
Yes, but remember Jesus is reaching out to them through us. We have a role of being a bridge. This is what we should never forget, Bernie, when wehelp even just one person, and their family, that is a lot. You don’t have to help dozens and hundreds, although that is better if you can. One is enough. We are pleasing to the Lord bringing one soul to Him.
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BERNIE
Yes, I suppose it is like the Shepherd leaving the 99 to look for the one.
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SR RAQUEL
Imagine, a person who is terminally sick and dying, is suddenly alive again, cancer-free. No more hardship in chemo. Savings of thousands even millions of pesos that can be used for the family. No more waiting in long lines in the hospital everyday. No more tension. The family is happy. And the most important is the spiritual healing, not the physical. The ministry brings people to Jesus. They have changed their lives after they are healed. They become more gentle in their relationships. The become more patient and giving. They begin praying more often, and talking to Jesus. They begin to live a life in the Lord. That is a lot, Bernie. Just to help one is a lot. The Lord is so happy and we are pleasing to Him. That is what our ministry is all about. And these people from across the world know about us through the Internet. How about our website? How is it doing?
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BERNIE
Prayer requests have doubled since two months ago. Before, we publish about 20 every two weeks. Now it is up to 40.
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SR RAQUEL
Yes, I know. I receive your bulletins regularly.
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BERNIE
Sometimes I am moved to tears just reading all the pain and suffering of people. All of a sudden, my pains seem so insignificant and I am so lucky. The same with Freddie (our IT volunteer). He says that, as a prayer warrior, reading the prayer request bulletins has changed his life. It is a form of meditation and inspiration to pray for people who are on the verge of despair. Indeed, the prayer warriors know that their participation in the ministry through their prayers is what uplifts them and heals them, this feeling that you are helping others, of giving hope to the desperate.
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SR RAQUEL
Praying for others, for the sick and desperate is a main concern of our ministry. So you know how important and crucial the Internet is to our ministry. In one click, we are global. I receive calls from Russia, Europe. Sometimes they have an English interpreter. So many people worldwide need help.
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There is this woman with brain cancer from California. She found out about us through the Internet. She has this unbearable headache and she is losing her eyesight rapidly. She is here right now as a stay-in. She traveled all the way from California just to ask the Lord to heal her. In one day, her headache was gone. In three days, her vision started improving.
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BERNIE
So is she now cancer-free?
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SR RAQUEL
We don’t know yet. She has to have a new check-up. But definitely, the cancer symptoms are slowly going away.
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TRYING TO RECALL MY CONVERSATION WITH SISTER RAQUEL, I BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT PERHAPS THE MINISTRY, THROUGH ITS MEMBERS, CAN FORM PRAYER WARRIOR ‘CHAPTERS’ WORLDWIDE. THE CHAPTERS, LED BY ONE VOLUNTEER MEMBER WHO STEPS FORWARD, CAN RECRUIT OTHER MEMBERS FROM THEIR COMMUNITY. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE BIG. A CHAPTER OF TEN PEOPLE IS ENOUGH. THEY CAN REFER TERMINAL CASES TO THE MINISTRY, EVEN JUST BY TELEPHONE. AND THEY CAN EVEN MEET AND PRAY TOGETHER IF THEY HAVE THE TIME. MAYBE ONE DAY, WE CAN ASK ALL PRAYER WARRIORS TO COME TO THE CENTER AND MEET EACH OTHER.
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MORE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE MINISTRY FROM WEBSITE MEMBERS AND PRAYER WARRIORS IS PERHAPS THE NEXT STEP.
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SAVE AND SEND THIS TO FRIENDS
http://www.sisterraquel.com/2010/04/article7-conversations-with-sister-raquel/
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Articles20 Apr 2010 07:55 pm
article6 - COPING WITH CHAOS
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COPING WITH CHAOS
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In the old days, I would take a fast refreshing jeepney ride in the evening from Governor Forbes along Dapitan to Quiapo for ten centavos, arrive in five minutes, and buy a huge tasty siopao for a peso. Life was simpler and there was always time.
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Today, I would take the same ride in the evening for seven pesos, breathe a lot of carbon monoxide before I arrive in 30 minutes, if I was lucky, and buy siopao half the size, with more starch than meat at quadruple the price. It is an economic principle - life degrades fast as population grows fast.
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In the 60s, with a P300 salary, one could hang out with friends for beer three times a week and have extra money for mundane purchases. Today, a salary of P20,000 is too small for basic necessities. Life has become expensive and complex.
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We are also victims of chemically mass-produced food. In the old days, cancer was rare. Today, it kills more per day than in World War II. Expensive ‘effective’ medicine are discontinued after being discovered to be cancer-causing ten years after they are released in the market.
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We are all victims of a fast-shrinkng world. Time is getting cramped. We are so busy yet so bored. Half of our lives is spent on endless traffic and queues. We may not know it, but we are going into an uncontrollable tailspin.
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There is so much to do and we have no time, yet we really have done nothing meaningful or substantial. We work twice as hard for half the money. We wallow in ever-increasing tasks that make us cold unthinking robots. Globalization and Internet have changed our lives. Just getting the news from the newspaper or from television, we realize how much conflict and chaos are percolating everywhere.
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In the old days, one could quietly sneak into a church and say a prayer. Today, there is no or little time for prayer.
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So how do we cope with chaos in our lives? We need to step back from the rush and the crowds. Here are some unsolicited prescriptions –
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THE TEN PRECEPTS
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start feeling and stop thinking;
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create an inner garden where you can take a retreat from the world and be by yourself, where time is not important, where you can rest from making money that buys less and less, where you can stop worrying; where you can enjoy simple beautiful things like sunsets or music or your grandson;
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be more spiritual and less material, find time to pray; the Lord will help you;
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be simple, stick to the basics in terms of material needs; cheaper shoes, cellphones, five shirts is enough, some have 4 dozens, more than half unused;
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be frugal, eat less, more vegetables and fruits than meat, do not over-eat, don’t overspend, live within your means, tear your credit cards;
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remove yourself from all communication devices when you are in your inner garden; it takes time for waves to die down in a swimming pool after the last swimmer has gone; achieve the wave-less mirror-like pool in your mind; give it time, it is not instant; it is hard to forget problems even for a while;
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find meaning somehow and avoid absurdity or irrelevance;
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love and relate to people; make them a source of joy to cater to, talk to, dialogue with, share with; make your day by giving to someone;
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be gentle to yourself and to others; get angry less, be more patient, anger clogs your aortic valves; gentleness unclogs them; laugh at the obnoxious and arrogant, don’t let them give you ulcers, or should I say, don’t give yourself ulcers because of them; who are they to make your life miserable;
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be humble when people insult or castigate you, whether you are to blame or not; you will find that it feels good and refreshing in the end to be humble; when arrogance becomes a habit, it is a disease, it can even cause cancer.
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In all there are just a few magic words – the three S’s –
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simplicity, sharing, sensitivity.
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Believe me, then can you cope with all the ever-increasing chaos the world will offer you.
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fight the chaos from without
with the harmony from within
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eastwind
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Save and send this to friends and the sick
article6 – COPING WITH CHAOS
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OUR RADIO PROGRAM HAS BEEN
TEMPORARILY TERMINATED
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CONTACT US
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www.sisterraquel.com SUBSCRIBE TO RECEIVE REGULAR POSTS
eastwind@motherignaciahealingministry.com INQUIRIES, PRAYER REQUESTS, JOIN PRAYER WARRIORS, HEALING GUIDE
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CALL SISTER RAQUEL FOR HEALING OR PRAY-OVER –
ANY DAY EXCEPT WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY
ONLY FROM 730PM TO 830PM, PHILIPPINE TIME
IF NO ANSWER, TRY AGAIN ANOTHER TIME (632) 930-3902
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announcement3 – SELECTED URGENT MATERIALS
SELECTED URGENT MATERIALS
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MYSTERY OF THE HEALING OIL
AND RELATED DISASTER MESSAGES
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OIL MYSTERIOUSLY APPEARED ON THE FLOOR OF THE MOTHER IGNACIA HEALING CENTER ONE DAY BEFORE TYPHOON ONDOY, THE WORST FLOOD IN MANILA’S HISTORY. SISTER RAQUEL REODICA, RVM USED THE OIL ON TERMINALLY SICK PEOPLE, MANY OF WHOM WERE HEALED. THERE WERE SOME DRAMATIC INSTANT HEALINGS. SHE ALSO RECEIVED A SERIES OF DISASTER MESSAGES. LINKS IN RED TO MORE MATERIALS GIVEN BELOW.
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BRIEFLY THE FIVE DISASTER MESSAGES, AS FEATURED IN THE INQUIRER, WERE –
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MANKIND HAS UP TO 2018 TO RETURN TO THE LORD.
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IT IS URGENT FOR THE RICH TO SHARE WITH THE POOR.
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A GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE AS PREDICTED BY THE THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA MAY OCCUR WITHOUT WARNING.
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DISASTERS ARE ‘NEGOTIABLE’ THROUGH PRAYERS AND GOOD WORKS.
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VISAYAS MAY BE SPARED, UNLIKE LUZON AND MINDANAO.
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THERE ARE ONGOING DISCUSSIONS WHETHER OTHER MORE DIRE AND MORE SPECIFIC DISASTER MESSAGES SHOULD BE PUBLISHED.
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IF THE OIL PHENOMENON, AS EVIDENCED BY PHOTOS, IS TRUE, THEN THE ACCOMPANYING DISASTER MESSAGES MUST ALSO BE TRUE. HOWEVER, REMEMBER THAT DISASTERS ARE ‘NEGOTIABLE’. WE CAN AVERT DISASTERS THROUGH PRAYERS.
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REQUEST FOR HEALING OIL – EMAIL YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS TO eastwind@motherignaciahealingministry.com
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LINKS TO DISASTER MESSAGES AND HEALING OIL MATERIALS
Just click on the title –
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inquirer article PROPHECY FOR THE NEW DECADE overview, 5 messages
youtube TYPHOON ONDOY’S HEALING OIL part 1
youtube HEALING OIL TESTIMONIALS part 2
jpegs DRAMATIC PHOTOS OF THE MYSTERIOUS OIL
powerpoint TYPHOON ONDOY a wake up call
announcement DISASTER MESSAGE a wake-up call
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POWERFUL POWERPOINTS
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Just click on the title
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the art of discovering yourself PART 1
the art of discovering yourself PART 2
tour of the galaxies PART 1 hubble space photos set into prayer
tour of the galaxies PART 2 hubble space photos
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SELECTED YOUTUBE
HEALING PRAYERS AND TESTIMONIALS
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Just click on the title
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SISTER RAQUEL REODICA, RVM
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healing prayer sister raquel
Jesus heals terminal leukemia
Jesus fixes hole in Lyshel’s heart
Jesus heals terminal liver ailment
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FATHER FERNANDO SUAREZ, CC
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healing prayer father suarez
Jesus heals terminal cervical cancer HEALING STONES
bacnotan church healings
healing homily at monte maria PART 1
healing homily at monte maria PART 2
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FR JAMES B REUTER, SJ
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meditating on the universe HUBBLE SPACE PHOTOS
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e-BOOKS ON HEALING
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Free downloads
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healing stories of sister raquel
mga kuwento tungkol sa healing ni sister raquel
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