Preparing A Blog

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Greetings everyone! 

 I will be in the Chicago airport tomorrow for a little while and will work on a blog entry. 

 I am alive and very well...just really busy with a number of foreseen and unforeseen things to attend to. 

 Still, the Lord is very good to me...always! 

 in Christ,
Fr. Jim

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