What does it mean that the Lord has glorified the land?

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

Fr. Jim homily

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In the late eighth century before Christ, that is, the early 700s B.C., the Assyrians conquered Israel and began deporting their elite and craftsmen and replacing them with their own people. The goal of these mass deportations was to minimize the likelihood that the common people would start a rebellion. Among the first regions to be lost to Assyria were those in the Northern Kingdom, including Zebulun and Naphtali. These were the regions Isaiah prophecies about in our first reading, and…

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