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  There is so much in today’s readings but we’ll have to settle for an elaboration of the second commandment with a slight detour via the money-changers.   I used to think of the second commandment, “You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain,” in terms of cursing or swearing oaths.   However, I’ve come to believe that to dishonour what is God’s is to dishonour God, that is, we take the Lord’s name in vain. Sheep by Rev. Dr. Victoria Marie We are all God’s children.   Our Creator gave us teachers, starting in biblical times with the prophets and ending with Jesus.   In post biblical times, there are men and women whose lives and writings show us that God continues to send us teachers, if we would only listen.   St. Francis of Assisi and Dorothy Day are examples of what I mean.   In St. Francis’ time, lepers were the outcasts of society, forced to live apart.   Before his conversion, Francis found lepers intolerable.   Then...