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use it tonight The Holy Gospel according to St. John the 18th chapter ! It’s like Bob Dylan sung long ago, “And the first one now / Will later be last / For the times they are a-changin’.”   In other words, if we’re going to have half a chance of understanding what’s going on all around us, we going to need how to read the times.   And I don’t just mean just remembering to change our clocks, but discerning the sign of the times themselves… Like this moment in American and world history, as the question is being put to us over and over again. “What time is it.” Is it a time of change , or of holding onto old ways? Or another simple example, the High School walk out. No one seemed quite sure what to make of it. I got the impression not even the students were… Because that’s the thing, isn’t it? It’s hard to know what time it is. It’s never been easy, and it’s not getting any easier over the years.   That’s what’s really at stak...