{"id":26289,"date":"2023-02-26T21:03:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T02:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=26289"},"modified":"2023-02-26T21:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T02:04:32","slug":"following-christ-the-new-adam-in-responding-to-the-devils-temptations-first-sunday-of-lent-a-february-26-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/following-christ-the-new-adam-in-responding-to-the-devils-temptations-first-sunday-of-lent-a-february-26-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Christ the New Adam in Responding to the Devil&#8217;s Temptations, First Sunday of Lent (A), February 26, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Campus Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nFirst Sunday of Lent, Year A<br \/>\nFebruary 26, 2023<br \/>\nGen 2:7-9.3:1-7, Ps 51, Rom 5:12-19, Mt 4:1-11<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below: <\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-26289-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.26.23_CCM_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.26.23_CCM_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.26.23_CCM_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following text guided the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lent is an annual spiritual boot camp in which the Holy Spirit impels us to follow Jesus into the desert, to pray and fast with him for 40 days, and to prepare to give ourselves together with him as alms to others. The First Sunday of Advent is the annual opportunity for us to recognize that this boot camp does not take place in a vacuum or is directed toward self-improvement. The Church has us focus on the reality of the devil and the way that the evil one seeks to tempt us away from God, to seduce us to choose against him, so that we may separate ourselves from God in this life and self-alienate us from God forever. But in response to this subtle spiritual terrorism, the Church also has us focus on the remedies Christ the Divine Physician, the conquerer of the devil, sin and death, teaches us in the desert after his 40 days of fasting and prayer, so that we learn how to be successful in this mortal combat.<\/li>\n<li>Throughout human life, we have to face the wiles of the devil, just like Jesus had to face Satan anew in the Garden of Gethsemane. But youth is a particularly intense time of spiritual combat, because the devil wants to come after us before we have had the chance to recognize easily to discern his ordinary maneuvers, before we\u2019ve developed the virtuous habits to strengthen us again his assaults. So he can come after us with intense temptations against faith in, hope toward and love for God. He can bombard us with temptations toward pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, anger and sloth. He can assail us with temptations to hate, harm or neglect our neighbor and to even to hate, harm or neglect ourselves. That\u2019s why it\u2019s super important on this First Sunday of Lent for all of us, but especially college students, to enter into Jesus\u2019 desert academy, where we can learn from him how to diagnose, remedy and respond to the devil\u2019s lies, empty promises and evil works. Jesus shows us today not only <em>that<\/em> the devil can be defeated but <em>how<\/em> he is to be defeated. To learn how to follow Christ in overcoming these temptations, though, we first need to understand better how the devil operates, and that brings us to focus very carefully on the first reading, where we encounter the\u00a0blow-by-blow details of what we call the \u201coriginal sin,\u201d but in it we see the essential stages the devil uses to allure us to\u00a0any sin.<\/li>\n<li>The first step is to try to get us to listen to God poorly, rather than attentively and lovingly. God had told Adam that he wasn\u2019t to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but as he passed that on to Eve, the details changed, as Eve said, \u201cWe may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;\u00a0it is only about the fruit of the tree\u00a0in the middle of the garden that God said,\u00a0\u2018You shall not eat it<em>or even touch it<\/em>, lest you die.\u2019\u201d Even though Adam\u2019s and Eve\u2019s life depended on it, they hadn\u2019t listened to God accurately. God had said nothing about not touching it. Every sin begins with a sin of listening. Pope Benedict said that every sin is \u201dessentially disobedience and refusal to hear\u201d God (VD 26).<\/li>\n<li>The second step is to get us to distrust God. The devil told Eve that they wouldn\u2019t die if they did the exact opposite of what God had commanded. He declared that God gave the command simply because he was jealous of his own divine status and didn\u2019t want anyone else to become like him, even though his will from the beginning was to create us in his image and likeness and help us to live according to it. The act of faith involves first trusting God and then trusting in what he says. The devil took the opposite path: he worked back from getting them to distrust what was said to getting them to distrust the One who said it.\u00a0The devil continues to try to tempt us in that way. He says to us, \u201cYou won\u2019t die if you voluntarily miss a Sunday Mass. \u2026 You won\u2019t die if you follow your heart and pretend you\u2019re married to someone whom you love but to whom God has not joined you in one flesh. \u2026 You won\u2019t die if you fail to forgive a family member who\u2019s wronged you. \u2026 You won\u2019t die if you stiff someone in need because he\u2019s probably a con man anyway. \u2026\u00a0You won\u2019t die if you take someone\u2019s life, whether at the beginning, or at the end, or your own age. \u2026\u00a0You won\u2019t die if, in fact, if you break any of the commandments, because by them God is just trying to stifle and control you.\u201d The devil seeks to reel us in by that diabolical two-step of faulty hearing and distrust \u2014 just as much as he hurt Adam and Eve.<\/li>\n<li>The third step is concupiscence, getting us to desire smaller goods instead of more important goods or even the greatest good of all. The devil knows that he can\u2019t tempt us by evil, because evil is unattractive. He must use some aspect of the good and get us to desire it over the true good. Today we see that \u201cthe woman saw that the tree was good for food,\u00a0pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.\u201d She began to desire those goods, real or imaginary, above the good of obedience, above the good of trust, above the good of even her life. The devil will seek to do similar things with us, getting us to seek lesser goods or even great goods by immoral means.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth step is the physical committing of the sin to which the heart had already consented: \u201cShe took some of its fruit and ate it.\u201d She had already taken the first bite through desire.<\/li>\n<li>The fifth step is to try to create a communion of sin. If we don\u2019t feel good about where we are, we want others to join us. While there are some solitary sins that we try to keep secret from everyone, for most sins we want company. We want to say to ourselves, \u201ceverybody\u2019s doing it,\u201d so that we can conclude that our choices can\u2019t be that bad. We see it here when Eve \u201calso gave some to her husband, who was with her,\u00a0and he ate it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The sixth and last step is that there\u2019s shame \u2014 coming from the fact that they know \u201cknew \u2026 evil.\u201d Whereas previously Genesis tells us \u201cthey were naked without shame,\u201d now it says they\u00a0\u201crealized that they were naked;\u00a0so they sewed fig leaves together\u00a0and made loincloths for themselves.\u201d Prior, they trusted; after sin, they recognized their vulnerabilities before each other and protected their most vulnerable parts from each other. They would also try to hide themselves out of fear from him, as if he, too, who created them and gave them everything would harm them. There was, in short, a three-fold rupture: in their relationship with God, with each other, and within each of them, body and soul. Whenever we sin, the devil wants to lead us to try to hide ourselves from God and his mercy, to withdraw from him, lest we recognize what we\u2019ve done, confess it and receive his forgiveness. He tries to cajole us into thinking that God who sees everything can\u2019t already see what we\u2019ve done.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s the six-step process of the devil, an itinerary we have taken often whenever we\u2019ve sinned. But we can also learn from it the path to respond. We must, in contrast: Listen to what God is saying to us in Sacred Scripture, in prayer, in the events of life, in the words of the magisterium, in the lives and writings of the saints, and in other ways, and make sure we\u2019re understanding it appropriately, loving it, and seeking to act on it; grow in loving trust of God, especially in the challenging times of our life; desire the right things, in proper order, and respond to God\u2019s help to acquire self-mastery so that we\u2019re not dominated by concupiscence; be doers of the Word, acting according to what God has asked; bring others into a communion of good, to enter more fully into the loving communion of persons that Jesus came into the world to form, prayed for during the Last Supper, and wants us to share forever; and experience not shame but the joy that comes from uniting ourselves to the Lord in loving action and gratitude.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus charts this path for us in the Gospel today in his own battles with the devil. Sometimes we can think that because of Jesus\u2019 divinity, he couldn\u2019t have been tempted by the devil. But because of his sacred humanity, as the Letter to the Hebrews reminds us, \u201cWe do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but \u2026\u00a0one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin\u201d (Heb 4:15). He has suffered the same temptations we do, but he never consented to them. That\u2019s why he\u2019s such a reason for hope to us in our trials, because he can truthfully tell us, \u201cI know what you\u2019re going through. I\u2019ve been there. Trust in me. I can help you overcome those temptations and pass those tests without sin.\u201d Think about the temptations you have suffered even in the past week. Jesus confronted them. The trials he suffered were not just the three named in today\u2019s Gospel. St. Luke tells us that the devil subjected Jesus to \u201cevery temptation\u201d (Lk 4:13), all those that human beings are able to suffer. And hence the path he teaches us to overcome them works not just for the temptations in the Gospel, but for all of them.<\/li>\n<li>When we look at the temptations Jesus suffered in the Gospel, we see that they indeed summarize every form of temptation to which a person can be subjected. The first temptation was to disorder one\u2019s relationship with himself and the rest of the created world. The second was to warp our relationship with God. The third was to distort our relationship with others.<\/li>\n<li>The first temptation came after Jesus was literally starving, having fasted for 40 days. The devil tempted him to become a baker rather than a savior, to use his talents and powers to turn stone into bread. \u201cIf you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of Bread.\u201d Jesus had come to save people, to feed their most important hunger \u2014 the hunger of their souls \u2014 and Satan was trying to induce him, as Archbishop Sheen used to say, to become a baker rather than a Savior. To feed people\u2019s physical hunger would be a great way to win a crowd and become popular. But Jesus himself was already living off a greater source of food and was preparing to train disciples to seek this same celestial nutrition: \u201cMan does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.\u201d This same insight he passed on to the crowds when they were following him to have their stomachs satiated: \u201cDo not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you\u201d (Jn 6:27). Lent is a time in which we refocus on working for the food that endures, in which we grow in our trust for God\u2019s providing, that he loves us more than the lilies of the field and the birds of the air, that he will give us each day our daily bread, so that the devil is not able to tempt us by our tummies or to use the talents God has given us in a selfish way, for our own advantage, rather than God and the good of others.<\/li>\n<li>In the second temptation, the devil tried to tempt Jesus to test God the Father. He brought him to the parapet of the temple and chortled, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, \u2018He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,\u2019 and \u2018with their hands they will support you, lest you dash your foot against a stone\u2019 (cf. Ps 91).\u201d This is the temptation to be presumptuous with God, to do something reckless and make us expect God to rescue us from it every time, to re-create our relationship with God on our terms rather than God\u2019s terms; then, when God doesn\u2019t seem to respond to that situation because such behavior harms us, the devil uses it to divide us even further from God. Some, for example, can smoke a pack of cigarettes a day for several decades and then expect God to cure us of lung cancer when we ask him politely in prayer. Students can blow off studying all semester and on their way to their exam pray that God will help them get a good grade, and if or when they fail, the devil can often get them to doubt God\u2019s existence or goodness. Jesus passed onto his disciples his response to this form of diabolical temptation, so that we could make it our own. Citing Sacred Scripture, he said, \u201cYou shall not put the Lord your God to the test.\u201d The way not to tempt the Lord is by doing what we should be doing when we should be doing it. Rather than presumptuously throwing ourselves down from precipices, Lent is a time in which we trustingly throw ourselves up into God\u2019s outstretched merciful arms.<\/li>\n<li>In the third temptation, the devil brought Jesus up to a very high mountain and presented to him a vision of all the kingdoms of the world. \u201cAll these I shall give to you,\u201d he promised, \u201cif you will prostrate yourself and worship me.\u201d Jesus was about to announce that his kingdom is at hand, but the \u201cfather of lies\u201d (Jn 8:44) was proposing a short cut, another way, a supposedly easier way. The devil likewise tempts us to compromise our relationship with God in order to get ahead or to get what we want. He promises power, prestige, profit or privilege if only sacrifice our relationship with God and his moral law in order to serve the \u201cruler of this world.\u201d Jesus rejected this temptation, firstly saying, \u201cGet away, Satan! It is written, \u201cThe Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.\u201d Jesus told us about this third struggle so that we could learn from him how to know, love and serve God. Satan tries to tempt us to disorder our relationship with others, to seek dominion over them, regardless of the means. In the course of history, many people have made these Faustian bargains, selling out on their worship of God for the sake of getting ahead. We can think readily in our own time of politicians who have sold their souls to the diabolical pro-abortion plank of their political party so that they might get elected. Others have betrayed friends or traded their chastity for the sake of a promotion. This is the temptation to forsake God\u2019s will for the sake of earthly advantage, to seek to build up our own earthly kingdom rather than enter God\u2019s. Jesus shows us the remedy. If we are truly worshipping and loving God, we will be loving others, who are made in his image. If we are serving God, we will not use others for the sake of getting ahead, but will strive to serve them in love.God liberally extends to us the grace of conversion in Lent so that we might recognize our idols, and turn away from them to love the true God, serving him with all our mind, heart, soul and strength.<\/li>\n<li>How do we imitate and live Jesus\u2019 responses to the devil and grow in strength against temptation? Jesus tells us in St. Mark\u2019s Gospel, that some devils are expunged \u201conly by prayer and fasting\u201d (Mk 9:29). That is why, on Ash Wednesday, the Church, presents before us the need for us to pray, to fast and to give of ourselves and what we have toward others. The devil seeks to trick us to disorder our relationship ourselves, to others, and to God, and fasting, almsgiving, and prayer are the respective antidotes. The more we fast and place spiritual nourishment over material food, the less vulnerable we will be to be tempted by bread and other earthly pleasures. The more we pray to God and seek to know and do his will in our lives the less assailable we will be to the devil\u2019s traps presumptuously to force God\u2019s hand. The more we sacrifice ourselves and our belongings for the good of others, the less prone we will be to giving in to the devil\u2019s seductions to give us power or control over others. These three traditional practices of Lent are a great remedy, a merciful medicine, to the Evil One\u2019s poison. And that\u2019s why we need to make bold resolutions in Lent with regard to all three.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus suffered every type of temptation we face but never sinned, and today, on this first Sunday of Lent, he tells each of us, \u201cFollow me!\u201d He calls us to trust in him, to believe in his word, and to put it into practice even and especially when we find it challenging. He has been helping us share in his victory over the devil and his lies since from our earliest days as a Christian. On the day of our baptism, we received his own power to defeat the temptations of the evil one. Our parents and godparents said for us then words we have repeated many times, that <em>we reject Satan, all his evil works and all his empty promises<\/em> and <em>profess our faith in God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit <\/em>and all the means he gives us through the prayer and the Sacraments. In our name, they prayed on the day of our baptism words we have reiterated tens of thousands of times, \u201cLet us not to fall into temptation but deliver us from the Evil One!\u201d Today we renew those promises and that prayer!<\/li>\n<li>In one of the many great Lenten hymns we pray throughout this season, \u201cLord, who throughout these 40 days,\u201d we sing words that summarize the chief message of this first Sunday of Lent and this whole Lenten season: We say, Lord, \u201cas you with Satan did contend and did the victory win; so give us strength in you to fight, in you to conquer sin!\u201d That\u2019s what Christ wants to do. He wants us to strengthen us from the inside to fight, to win, and to conquer sin. To help us do just that, he is about to give us this world\u2019s supreme gift. He was unwilling to change a stone into bread for the devil, but for us, today, he changes bread into his Body. He <em>is<\/em> \u201cthe word that comes from the mouth of God\u201d and now God the Father wants to put that word into our mouths! Together with him, everything is possible. Together with him, we can withstand any and every temptation and share his eternal victory. Together with him, we can indeed live by the word of God and worship and serve God alone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>he readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/genesis\/2:7\">GN 2:7-9; 3:1-7<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground<br \/>\nand blew into his nostrils the breath of life,<br \/>\nand so man became a living being.<br \/>\nThen the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,<br \/>\nand placed there the man whom he had formed.<br \/>\nOut of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow<br \/>\nthat were delightful to look at and good for food,<br \/>\nwith the tree of life in the middle of the garden<br \/>\nand the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.<br \/>\nNow the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals<br \/>\nthat the LORD God had made.<br \/>\nThe serpent asked the woman,<br \/>\n\u201cDid God really tell you not to eat<br \/>\nfrom any of the trees in the garden?\u201d<br \/>\nThe woman answered the serpent:<br \/>\n\u201cWe may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;<br \/>\nit is only about the fruit of the tree<br \/>\nin the middle of the garden that God said,<br \/>\n\u2018You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nBut the serpent said to the woman:<br \/>\n\u201cYou certainly will not die!<br \/>\nNo, God knows well that the moment you eat of it<br \/>\nyour eyes will be opened and you will be like gods<br \/>\nwho know what is good and what is evil.\u201d<br \/>\nThe woman saw that the tree was good for food,<br \/>\npleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.<br \/>\nSo she took some of its fruit and ate it;<br \/>\nand she also gave some to her husband, who was with her,<br \/>\nand he ate it.<br \/>\nThen the eyes of both of them were opened,<br \/>\nand they realized that they were naked;<br \/>\nso they sewed fig leaves together<br \/>\nand made loincloths for themselves.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/51:3\">PS 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R\/ (cf. 3a)\u00a0Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<br \/>\nHave mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;<br \/>\nin the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.<br \/>\nThoroughly wash me from my guilt<br \/>\nand of my sin cleanse me.<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<br \/>\nFor I acknowledge my offense,<br \/>\nand my sin is before me always:<br \/>\n\u201cAgainst you only have I sinned,<br \/>\nand done what is evil in your sight.\u201d<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<br \/>\nA clean heart create for me, O God,<br \/>\nand a steadfast spirit renew within me.<br \/>\nCast me not out from your presence,<br \/>\nand your Holy Spirit take not from me.<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<br \/>\nGive me back the joy of your salvation,<br \/>\nand a willing spirit sustain in me.<br \/>\nO Lord, open my lips,<br \/>\nand my mouth shall proclaim your praise.<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 2<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/romans\/5:12\">ROM 5:12-19<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nThrough one man sin entered the world,<br \/>\nand through sin, death,<br \/>\nand thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned\u2014<br \/>\nfor up to the time of the law, sin was in the world,<br \/>\nthough sin is not accounted when there is no law.<br \/>\nBut death reigned from Adam to Moses,<br \/>\neven over those who did not sin<br \/>\nafter the pattern of the trespass of Adam,<br \/>\nwho is the type of the one who was to come.<br \/>\nBut the gift is not like the transgression.<br \/>\nFor if by the transgression of the one, the many died,<br \/>\nhow much more did the grace of God<br \/>\nand the gracious gift of the one man Jesus Christ<br \/>\noverflow for the many.<br \/>\nAnd the gift is not like the result of the one who sinned.<br \/>\nFor after one sin there was the judgment that brought condemnation;<br \/>\nbut the gift, after many transgressions, brought acquittal.<br \/>\nFor if, by the transgression of the one,<br \/>\ndeath came to reign through that one,<br \/>\nhow much more will those who receive the abundance of grace<br \/>\nand of the gift of justification<br \/>\ncome to reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nIn conclusion, just as through one transgression<br \/>\ncondemnation came upon all,<br \/>\nso, through one righteous act,<br \/>\nacquittal and life came to all.<br \/>\nFor just as through the disobedience of the one man<br \/>\nthe many were made sinners,<br \/>\nso, through the obedience of the one,<br \/>\nthe many will be made righteous.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/4:1\">MT 4:1-11<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert<br \/>\nto be tempted by the devil.<br \/>\nHe fasted for forty days and forty nights,<br \/>\nand afterwards he was hungry.<br \/>\nThe tempter approached and said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cIf you are the Son of God,<br \/>\ncommand that these stones become loaves of bread.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cIt is written:<br \/>\n<em>One does not live on bread alone,<br \/>\nbut on every word that comes forth<br \/>\nfrom the mouth of God<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the devil took him to the holy city,<br \/>\nand made him stand on the parapet of the temple,<br \/>\nand said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cIf you are the Son of God, throw yourself down.<br \/>\nFor it is written:<br \/>\n<em>He will command his angels concerning you<br \/>\nand with their hands they will support you,<br \/>\nlest you dash your foot against a stone<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered him,<br \/>\n\u201cAgain it is written,<br \/>\n<em>You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\nThen the devil took him up to a very high mountain,<br \/>\nand showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence,<br \/>\nand he said to him, \u201cAll these I shall give to you,<br \/>\nif you will prostrate yourself and worship me.\u201d<br \/>\nAt this, Jesus said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cGet away, Satan!<br \/>\nIt is written:<br \/>\n<em>The Lord, your God, shall you worship<br \/>\nand him alone shall you serve<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\nThen the devil left him and, behold,<br \/>\nangels came and ministered to him.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1100_Mosaic_Italian-1100-1150_Venice-Basilica-of-San-Marco.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26286\" 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