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Tips for Making a Holy Hour & Bringing Kids to Adoration

What Is A Holy Hour? How Is It Different from Adoration or Benediction?

A Holy Hour is the Catholic devotion of being in the presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist for one hour. This can be as simple as going to the local church or chapel to pray before the tabernacle that holds the Eucharist.

Some parishes have what is called the Rite of Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction. In this ceremony, the Eucharist is placed in a special vessel called a monstrance that holds a consecrated Host. It’s often gold and has what looks like rays or sunbeams surrounding the host. It is placed where people can adore Jesus.

There are special prayers and songs when Jesus is placed in the monstrance. There are more at the end when the priest blesses the people with the monstrance containing the Eucharist. That is called the Benediction.

In churches where there is perpetual adoration, the monstrance is always displayed and there is always at least one person sitting with Jesus in the chapel. Some churches will have Eucharistic Exposition only during certain hours of the day or 24 hours only on First Fridays.

When the Eucharist is removed from the monstrance, it is placed back in the tabernacle.

When a person goes to pray before Jesus in the Eucharist, whether Jesus is in the monstrance or inside the tabernacle, you can say you are in Adoration. When you pray before Jesus for an hour, it is called a Holy Hour.

What Do You Do During a Holy Hour?

There is not a set plan. Everyone has their own preference. Some people follow books that guide you through the Hour and others just do whatever feels natural at the time.

The first time I tried making a Holy Hour it didn’t go well. After 10 minutes of praying I was distracted, fidgety, and completely losing focus. It was hard for me to sit in silence and even harder to quiet my mind.

To make things easier, I started to divide my Holy Hour into smaller chunks.

  • Talk to God – I spend the first 10-15 minutes just talking to Our Lord. I poured out everything that is on my heart. I’ll pray about the things troubling me and for my family and friends. I’ll thank Him for my blessings. I’ll ask for forgiveness for my sins and praise Him for his mercy and love. It helps when I close my eyes and in my mind’s eye I see and interact with Jesus.
  • Scripture, Rosary, or Chaplets – Secondly, I either pray the rosary, the Divine Mercy chaplet, read Scripture, or meditate on the Blessed Is She daily devotion. I use anything that helps me to think about or mediate on Our Lord and what He is doing in my life.
  • Journal – At the half way mark, I write in my prayer journal. I always think better as I’m writing, so as I ponder what I had read or was praying about, and I write down my thoughts and sort through them. It usually helps me to realize what the Holy Spirit is speaking to my heart.
  • Closing prayer and Litany – The last 10 – 15 minutes, I again speak to God from my heart telling Him how much I love Him and thanking Him for this time together. I close my Holy Hour with a recitation of the Litany to the Sacred Heart.

Everyone has their own method, but this is what works for me. And I have to admit that now that I make this a weekly practice, it has gotten easier and I don’t always need to “fill” my time to keep me focused. I am able to quiet my racing mind and just talk (and listen) to Our Lord. That is really the goal of making a Holy Hour – spending time with Jesus. There are days when I can’t wait to sit with Jesus. Admittedly, there are also days when it was a fight just to stay awake. Regardless, the main thing is that I’m showing up. Sometimes it’s when I’m struggling that I receive the most graces from the Holy Hour.

What If I can’t do a whole hour?

Before I started a full hour on a set day, I would do 15 minute chunks of time. Then I started Holy Half Hours, working my way up to an hour. In the past I’ve done two half hour sessions or 20 minutes three days in a row. If you are in a season of life where you simply cannot get to the Chapel for a whole hour, do what you can. Challenge yourself, but also be realistic. God knows your heart. He knows when you’re giving as much as you can and when you’re capable of doing more. Sincerely ask Him and He will show you what He wants.

What If I Can’t Leave the House?

There will always be times when you are sick or unable to leave the house with your little ones. On those days, I use the live feed of Perpetual Adoration from Catholify or from EWTN. I set up my iPad, light a candle, and them spend my quiet time with Our Lord.

What Do You Bring to Your Holy Hour?

I have a prayer tote that I carry all my prayer items, whether I am doing a Holy Hour in the chapel or spending time in morning prayer in my living room.

First, let me say that I’m one of those people who carries around way too much in her purse or overpacks her suitcase, so that’s why my prayer bag is full! 😉

Inside the tote (from a past Blessed Is She retreat) I keep my essentials (and extras) – Bible, prayer journal, petition book (where I write down the petitions I told people I would bring to the Lord,) prayer books, spiritual reading, rosary, prayer card pouch, and pencil pouch with pens and highlighters. I like having everything in one tote so it’s easy to grab whenever I want to spend time in prayer. Granted, when I make a Holy Hour, I’ll actually only use a 2-3 items, but I like having them available depending on how the Spirit moves me.

Tips to bringing kids to Adoration

This picture sums up what Adoration time should ultimately be, as St John Vianney once explained it, “I look at Him and He looks at me.”

1. Start Small -I strongly believe that young children should be exposed to religious practices, including going to Adoration. It should be a normal part of everyday life. However, where I may differ from other parents is that I don’t believe that it must be all or nothing. I’m a firm believer in baby steps.

I know some families who bring all their young kids to full Holy Hours. That is awesome and I applaud them. However, I never felt called to do that. Instead I started small. When my oldest was a toddler, I would often take her to the chapel to make a 5 minute visit to Jesus. I would have her kneel down at the front of the church and encourage her to say a little prayer to Jesus. Eventually, she got used to entering the church (relatively) quietly, blessing herself, and she would say her own sweet words to Jesus without my prompting.

As more kids came along and they were in preschool, which was across the street from a Catholic Church, we would go every day after school to make a short visit (5 – 15 minutes tops.) They got used to it being normal to go visit Jesus in the church.

It can feel frustrating to have noisy children in church or kids who complain that it’s boring, but one day they will be able to pray on their own and you may find they are asking you to take them to Adoration.

As they got older, we added on the time we would spend in Adoration. It can be hard when you have many kids at various ages. Your solution is really going to depend on your family situation and what you feel God is asking of you. Here are a few tips that I’ve used or moms I know have used.

  • Start with short visits to the chapel. Show them how to bless themselves and genuflect (on both knees if Jesus is exposed in the monstrance). Explain to them how this is a holy place and we should be quiet. Tell them that Jesus can’t wait to see them and that when He speaks to them it is done silently in their heart so they need to quietly listen to Him.
  • Bring a tote bag of prayer items. (See below.)
  • Assign an older sibling to a younger sibling. The older one can quietly read a bible story to the younger one or look at a picture book of saints.
  • Swap babysitting with another mom. Make short visits with your toddlers and preschoolers, but for longer visits with your older kids, have a mom friend babysit the little ones while you take your (and her) older ones to Adoration. The next time, swap.
  • Go as a family. Designate a shorter time for the littles then one parent takes them back to the car to wait. The other parent, completes the hour (or 1/2 hour) with the older kids.
  • I’m not above bribing my kids to stretch and do harder things. (ie. “We are going to Mass and Adoration today but afterwards, we’ll get ice cream if I hear no complaints.”) Some parents may disapprove but I want this to be a positive experience that both draws them closer to God and strengthens our bond as a family.

I don’t believe there is a one size fits all. Although I do a weekly Holy Hour and Brian visits the Adoration chapel every day during his lunch break, as a family we more often do Holy Half Hours since their days are full with traditional school and after school activities and our church is not open in the evening. We fit in Adoration before monthly confession, we arrive for weekly Mass a half hour early to pray, and we make a First Friday Holy Hour since locally that is the only time there is evening Adoration and we can go as a family. However, during the summer months when the kids are out of school, then we are able to make a weekly Holy Hour during the day. It’s during the school year that we have to adjust.

Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the wisdom to know what is right for your family and the strength to do it. If you feel God is asking you to commit to a full hour with your little ones, then humbly resign yourself to spending a good portion trying to keep them relatively quit and contained.  You may feel like you got nothing out of it, but trying not to lose your temper or sanity, is a prayer in itself. God will shower graces upon you for your sacrifices.

More importantly, you are building a foundation of love for the Eucharist in your children. When it feels especially rough, just remind yourself that your little noise maker will one day be able to sit and pray quietly as their love for our Eucharistic Lord deepens.

Lastly, I just want to add that as important as it is to bring your little ones to Adoration, you as a mom also need alone time with Our Lord. Ask you husband, a family member, hire a babysitter or babysit-swap with a fellow mom to watch the kids so you can go pray alone, even if it can’t be for an hour. Momming is hard work and you need to be able to spiritually recharge!

2. Bring a Tote Bag of Prayer Items – Just as I have my tote of spiritual material, so do my kids. From the youngest to the teen, they take their prayer book, rosary, Bible or saint book, journal and pens or pencils. I have them kneel and pray to Jesus in their heart first.  Afterwards, they can read their book, Bible or journal. As they get older, they pray the rosary, the Divine Mercy Chaplet or their own special devotional prayers.

Photo credit: Somedaysaints.com

Last year we each purchased the Kids Adoration Journal and Tote Bundle from Someday Saints.com. Technically this is for kids ages 7-12, which is great for my boys, but the rest of us over that age loved it too, so we all got one and have been using it. (Reference the previous photo.) 🙂

3. What books to you recommend for kids?

Each of my kids choose their own books. They usually bring a prayer book, their journal, and a bible or saint book.

Matthew loves looking up passages in a regular Bible so I bought him Lara Casey’s Write the Word Journal for Kids. (I use the adult version and love it.)

Although, it is written for Christians and isn’t specifically Catholic, he looks up the Scripture in our Catholic Bible, writes it out, and either journals or draws a picture. Other times he likes to look up his favorite verses in the Bible and he copies them into his own Scripture notebook.

For one of my sons, who was reluctant to go to Adoration, I bought him the Minecraft Bible. It kept his interest and he was still learning about God’s word. Catholic graphic novels about the saints have also been a big hit with my kids. (I did an post about them here.)

Now that some time has passed, my reluctant son is used to going to Adoration and he doesn’t bring these with him anymore. He uses a more traditional bible or he’ll pray part of the rosary or he’ll read a saint books or use his Adoration journal. I consider that progress!

If you need some inspiration, here is an Amazon list of books my boys enjoy – Books for Kids to Take to Adoration.  You don’t need to bring mounds of books, just one or two is fine.

If you have younger kids, check out the Adoration Pack for Families from Catholic Sprouts. I love the board book and coloring book, but my kids have passed that stage. I did however, order their parent guide book and a set of holy cards. 🙂

(Update: The bundle is not longer available, but you can order the items individually. I received A Parent’s Guide to Adoration after writing this post and read it. I still found it very helpful! I especially loved Nancy’s tip on teaching her kids how to do private silent prayer at home.)

4. What if I can’t afford special journals and tote bags?

You don’t need to buy an special Adoration items. You can go to the craft store and get a plain inexpensive tote. Or check the dollar section at Target or your local Dollar Store for totes and lined journals. When Bella was a toddler/preschooler I bought her a blank unlined journal and let her draw pictures of Jesus, Mary, or God’s creation. She felt like she was “journaling” too.

You can print out favorite prayers online and cut them out and tape them inside their inexpensive journals to make their own prayer books. Matthew did this when he saw Brian make one. He taped one of this favorite prayer cards to to the cover. Or you can staple the prayers together and let them make their own book. Use your imagination and they can create something special without spending a lot of money.

I hope that answered some of your questions and inspired you to try something new or keep up with what you’re doing. If you have other questions or tips that have worked for you or your family, please share them!

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Catholic Clergy Abuse: What Can I Do?

When the news came out about the horrific clergy abuse in PA, my heart was broken, angry and perplexed at what I could do. Later I went to the chapel to pray and there were no words. I just kept picturing Jesus and the Agony in the Garden and the pain this is causing His Sacred Heart.

Although I have not experienced this kind of abuse, one of my best friends was betrayed and sexually abused by someone we both loved, and I saw the devastating effect it had on her. I walked with her when she was her most broken and witnessed her fight and walk the road to recovery and healing. My heart is broken for the victims who have to travel that same road. And my mama bear heart is righteously angry at the thought of so much innocence robbed, and I want to see justice done to the perpetrators and reform put into place so no one ever has to suffer this pain again.

There are numerous groups of people rising up to prayer and action and for now I am joining Kendra at Catholic All Year and Bonnie at A Knotted Life to spend the next 40 days in prayer and reparation for the intentions of consoling the Sacred Heart, healing for the victims, for the guilty be brought to justice and reform enacted so this does not happen again. Along with my prayer, I will participate in actions to help foster these intentions.  I hope you will pray and act too. (See the link below for ideas.)

Lastly, I know some of you who are reading this have been abused yourself and the news has triggered the trauma of reliving it. I am especially praying for you too. If you’d like me to pray for you by name, feel free to email (rol at revolutionoflove.com) or message me on social media. (You can find me at all the usual places as bobbi_rol. You can find the links below my signature.)

For comfort in your pain and ideas on how you can help, visit this excellent post from Blessed Is SheGrieving With You: On the Catholic Clergy Abuse + What We Can Do.

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Sisters Speak in the #BISsisterhood at Blessed Is She.net

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Each week Blessed Is She features one of the team members for Sister Speak. This week it was my turn to answer questions such as who is my favorite saint, what virtue am I working on, what is my biggest struggle, what keeps me Catholic, what is my favorite motto and what prayer is on my heart. Here is a snippet:

Do you have a special Saint that you feel a strong connection to? How so?

When I was younger I had a love and devotion of St. Anne. She was my patron saint and I shared her name. (My middle name.) I prayed to her often, especially when I was looking for a holy spouse and later when I was dealing with fertility problems. However, another saint has made her way into my heart these last few years — St. Martha. The busyness of motherhood and my natural tendencies helps me to identify with Martha who was busy and worried about many things. I find myself turning to her often for guidance.

Which virtue do you find yourself working on the most throughout your day?

Patience and acceptance of God’s will. Throughout the day there are numerous times when things don’t go the way I want them to go — someone spills juice all over the table, the washing machine breaks down, a driver cuts me off on the road or a project deadline is moved up. There is always something. My first instinct is the flare up and get mad or frustrated. I am trying to learn how to calm down, be patient and accept that little crosses are a part of life. More importantly, God uses these crosses to help me grow in virtue and they can be prayer opportunities to “offer it up” for the special intentions of loved ones and the world at large.

READ THE REST HERE.

I am honored to be a part of this ministry! To find out more, visit Blessed Is She.net.

Also, please keep the Blessed Is She team in your prayers. We are meeting in Wisconsin this weekend for a retreat/conference/get-together. Thanks to my wonderful husband, I will be attending. Yay! The last time I went on a plane by myself was literally 10 years and three babies ago.

Please pray for all our safe travels and (for those of us who are married) please pray for the sanity of our hubbies and for unbelievable calm in the kiddos we leave behind.

I’ll be posting about the trip on Instagram and you can follow the team using the hashtag #bisteamretreat. I’ll share more about it when I get back. 🙂

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Happy Thanksgiving 2015: Living A Life of Gratitude (Guest Post at BIS)

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are enjoying a blessed time with family, friends and loved ones. Today is a perfect day to stop and think about all the numerous blessings we have, but living a life of gratitude should be a daily goal. God has been teaching me a lot about gratitude over the years – during the good times and during the more difficult times.  It is a life-long lesson but there are seven things that have helped me cultivate gratitude. I share them on the Blessed Is She Blog. Here is a snippet:

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A New Creation: An Interview with Chastity Speaker Crystalina Padilla-Evert

(This post was originally posted on the old Revolution of Love website. The interview was done in 2003 but over a decade later it still gets numerous hits and yesterday I got a request to put it back online. This one is for you V. )  😉

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Revolution of Love - An Interview with Crystalina Evertl (logo_crystalina)

When I found out that Crystalina Padilla was engaged (update: now married with children) to Jason Evert, I was curious to find out more about her since I knew she had to be someone special to capture his heart. Now I can see that she is the perfect match for him…a beautiful young lady inside and out. Although she had made mistakes in her past, Crystalina is a living witness of the power of God’s mercy and love. As a chastity speaker she is inspiring numerous girls and young women to strive to be the true women of God they are called to be. I hope her interview touches your heart as it touched mine. -Bobbi

RoL: Hi, Crystalina. I’m so happy to have this opportunity to get to know you a little better. Why don’t you start off by giving us a little background about your life. Were you always a practicing Catholic or was there a definitive point in your life when you made a change of direction?

Crystalina: I was a cradle Catholic. I’ve been a Catholic all my life but I didn’t always follow the ways of Catholicism. When I was about fifteen I was pretty wild just doing my own thing and I became very sexually active. I lost my virginity and from that point on – and it lasted for about three years – I was in and out of sexually active relationships. It just all went downhill from that point on. At the end of those three years I went to a retreat my mother had forced me to go to and there was a young man there, who was not too far from my age, who got up and just laid it out for me. He talked about all of the girls, all of the pornography, all the sex, all of the partying…everything he had been into. I felt like he had grabbed my hand out of the audience and he walked through my life. As if he could see the things that I was most ashamed of and hiding. He put them right in front of my face.

I thought to myself, what is the difference between this guy and me? What’s the difference there? I just watched him for awhile. He had this peace and this joy and this confidence that he carried about himself. I didn’t see that in my friends. I didn’t see that in the places I went to and I definitely didn’t see that in the guys I was dating. I noticed one thing in this guy that I couldn’t find in anyone else, something that he had above all of them. It was that he wasn’t ashamed of himself. I sat in my seat at that retreat trying to find one day that I actually hadn’t been ashamed of myself, but I couldn’t find one. So I think from that point on I really just turned my life around.

I devoted my life to chastity and purity and I think I just got this overwhelming rage, in a sense. As the years went on, I was really preaching this message of chastity and trying to help all of the young girls that were living that lifestyle I was once living. I was trying to get them out of it and tell them, “Look it’s okay…you can turn your life around. You can stop living this way.” I think half the time these girls that are living this lifestyle just need to hear that…”You can stop living this way and you can turn your life around. It is never too late.” They are never really hearing that.

RoL: What do you do to maintain and deepen your own relationship with Christ?

Crystalina: Well, every day Jason and I do an hour of Adoration, the rosary, Mass, confession every two weeks and honestly just trying to always maintain and keep Christ at the center of my life…the center of everything I do. That is really my strength in that it keeps me pure and keeps me living this lifestyle out. I think I tried so many things to stop living that horrible lifestyle I was in and nothing seemed to work. But the minute I did it with God, that was when my 180 happened. Honestly, I tell people if they really want to live this lifestyle out, they’ve got to do it with God or they’re just not going to do it at all. They are fooling themselves and they are going to fall on their faces just like I did. So if they really want to live it out, they’ve got to do it with God.

RoL: I read that you were involved with a program called “Challenge”. What it is and how did you get involved?

Crystalina: The Challenge Task Force on Chastity that I attended was a conference they were having in the Bahamas, where I met Jason. It was for young people who wanted to live out chastity and preach it in their own archdiocese around their homes and start a ministry or learn to become speakers. I think it was my starting point of really getting involved with chastity. I was doing some work at home but I think I more or less got really involved with it when I went to the Bahamas and met Jason.

RoL: There are a number of Catholics who have fallen into the trap of thinking that they can be sexually active in areas other then actual intercourse and still consider themselves virgins or at least “not as bad” as those who go “all the way”. How would you respond to someone who thinks this way?

Crystalina: Well, I actually met a lot of girls who think this way and live this lifestyle out but when it comes down to chastity and purity you’ve got to either pick “yea” or “nay”. It’s one or the other. You can’t always try to push the envelope because eventually you just go to far. I was always pushing the envelope and sin took me further than I ever wanted to go or ever expected to go. When those that live this way do approach me, I try to point out how they are lying to themselves and how much they are hurting themselves. Purity is a way of life. It is a way of thinking. It is how you act, how you dress, what music you listen to, and the way you carry yourself around the opposite sex. If you think you can push the envelope and that you’re still being pure, it’s a joke. Either you pick the lifestyle of chastity and embrace it or you just don’t. It’s that simple. There’s no in-between.

RoL: What would you say to a person reading this interview who has already been sexually active but wants to make a clean break and start living a chaste life. What would they need to do?

Crystalina: The first and foremost…the starting point is confession. If you’re Catholic, go to confession. Make a very good confession. I avoided confession like it was the plague. I wouldn’t even do a confession; I would lie in there. It was just terrible. When I really turned my life around I sat down and made a list of all my sins because I knew once I got in line or was there in front of the priest, I’d be freaking out and I wouldn’t want to go through with it. But the fact that I had this list really showed me how bad I was living this lifestyle and how much I didn’t want to go back to it. Then when I was in there I wouldn’t get nervous and forget these things. So I took this list in there, which came to five pages front and back. But it was so beautiful the peace and the joy I had leaving that confessional. I hadn’t experienced that in years and it was just awesome. It was only through the grace and power of God that I became who I am today. So the starting point is confession.

Another thing, every morning say a simple Hail Mary or even a rosary every single day. And if you are in a sexually active relationship, take the sex out and see what your relationship is based upon. If there is no sex then you can really step back and say, “Okay, is this love or is this lust? Do they love me? Are they using me? What’s truly going on?” It really gives you that clarity of mind to see what your relationship is about and what it’s truly based upon. And from that point on, keep the sexual element out of the relationship. Know that sex is something that is meant for marriage and the gifts of marriage are to stay in marriage. You will be rewarded for that. You can’t get the peace and joy that comes with chastity in random sexual relationships. It just doesn’t happen. Chastity is so freeing. So go to confession as a starting point, say a Hail Mary every morning or even a rosary, spend time in Adoration and keep the physical out of the relationships. And know that it doesn’t matter where you’ve been or what you’ve done or if you have fallen, you can start over. God can make you a new creation like He has me.

RoL: Working with so many young women, what would you say is the main thing they wish guys would understand about girls and relationships?

Crystalina: Well, I think girls are always saying, “respect”. Why don’t guys respect us? Respect, respect, respect. Girls just want so much respect from these guys and for them to really understand their feelings. But the thing is… when I was younger I wasn’t acting much like a lady so the guys didn’t feel the need to rise up and act like a gentleman around me. The problem with girls these days is that they don’t act like ladies, therefore they are not getting the gentlemen they would like to have around them. Girls need to rise up if they want to get that respect. The way you act and the way you dress is the way you will be treated. Honestly, there is so little respect for a woman these days… for her body and for what she does. It’s very hard but I think the way a woman carries herself demands respect, to an extent. So she needs to really check herself… how she dresses and how she acts. Yes, women have the power to turn a guy’s head but we also have the power to turn a guy’s heart. I think it is mainly up to us how a guy treats us by how we dress and act. So yes, I always here that girls want respect from guys but the girls have to learn to earn it in the same sense too.

jason-crystalinaCrystalina and Jason (Photo Credit)

RoL: Lastly, I want to congratulate you on your engagement with Jason. I’m so happy for you both!

Crystalina: Thank you very much.

RoL: Tell me, what did you think of Jason when you first met him? How did you know he was the one for you?

Crystalina: When I first met Jason I knew that I was going to marry him. When he walked in that door it was the strangest thing. My stomach just dropped and I knew there was going to be something so far and beyond that day and that trip. It has been beautiful because we’ve been friends for a year and then we courted for a year and now we have a nine-month engagement and on June 7th we’re going to be married. It was just amazing that we both had the same passion [for chastity] and we’re living it out and we’re going out to help all these teenage kids. It is so fulfilling…how God has worked through both of us to do this. Actually, living and having a relationship with purity it just awesome. I’ve been on both sides of the tracks and there is just no comparison to chastity and purity.

RoL: That’s beautiful. Any last comments?

Crystalina: One last comment is to those who have made past mistakes. If you’ve “been there and done that”, you can stop and you can turn your life around. You can become a new creation of God just like I did.

RoL: Thank you so much, Crystalina. It was wonderful to get to know you better. I know you and Jason will have a wonderful future together! Our prayers are with you both!

Crystalina: God bless you and thank you!

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For more information about Crystalina, visit The Chastity Project and Women Made New.com. Find Jason Evert’s interview here. For other posts about dating and the single life, browse here.

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