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Following is a link to the Day of Peace homily, given on January 6, 2007, by Archbishop Peter Gerety (1912-2016) during one of his several visits to St. Charles Church in Brunswick, Maine. 

 I am putting this link on the All Saints Parish Homilies and News blog:

http://oneturkeyrun.blogspot.com/2007/01/day-of-peace-homily-by-archbishop.html
Archbishop Peter Gerety

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