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	<description>Whether it is religion or sports, you can be sure that Pastor Iovine will write about it.</description>
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		<title>The Wedding Day is Not the Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/30/the-wedding-day-is-not-the-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Weddings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Late this afternoon, I had a long discussion with a recently married man who is having a wee-bit of trouble getting into the &#8220;marriage&#8221; thing he signed up for in July. He and his bride did not go through traditional marriage counseling classes before walking down the aisle. While their description of their wedding was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pastor&#8217;s Note &#8211; August 28/29, 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/27/the-pastors-note-august-2829-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saint Matthew's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Promise of Bergen County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hackensack Walk In Kitchen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(The following is my article written for our weekly parish notes bulletin insert.) This past Thursday, the Samaritans of Saint Matthew’s served a dinner at the Walk In Kitchen in Hackensack like they have so many times before. Long hours of planning, cooking, preparing, and serving historically have been the norm, and this week, nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Catholic Missal</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/27/2926/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Roman Catholic Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(I wrote the following post over at reviovine.com; this is a CnP (a &#8220;copy and paste&#8221; post). For some odd reason, I find it necessary to make a couple disclaimers on this post, one that should have been uploaded yesterday since it appeared in The (Bergen) Record on Thursday. First, I acknowledge that with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 1st and 25th</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/14/september-1st-and-25th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/14/september-1st-and-25th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saint Matthew's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just two dates to put on your calendar: - I will be attending a wedding out in Minnesota on the evening of August 31st. A local New Jersey family who is also attending the wedding has invited me to join them on their private jet to attend the festivities. I will be leaving on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Christianity vs. Jesus Christ</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/13/cool-christianity-vs-jesus-christ/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/13/cool-christianity-vs-jesus-christ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evangelism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LCMS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Also over at my non-church blog (I don&#8217;t know why I keep calling it a &#8220;private&#8221; blog since everyone can read it), I discuss an article found in this morning&#8217;s Wall Street Journal written by author Brian McCracken concerning &#8220;cool Christianity.&#8221; My post narrows his thought specifically to the Lutheran Church &#8211; Missouri Synod and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Logos Rant from Wednesday&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/13/my-logos-rant-from-wednesday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/13/my-logos-rant-from-wednesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iovine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logos.com]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at my private blog, I pulled back on my anger regarding my Wednesday rant over Logos 4 and Logos.com. After cooling off, settling down, and organizing my thoughts, I punching out a post giving more explanation on why I am frustrated with them. Read it here.]]></description>
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		<title>Logos.com Stinks</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/11/logos-com-stinks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iovine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve invested thousands of dollars on my pastor&#8217;s library, a major chunk of it at Logos.com that offers electronic versions of theological books including Luther&#8217;s Works, various CPH tomes, and terrific Greek and Hebrew language resources. For pastors, their library is their professional life. For me, having a vast amount of my library in electronic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Prefer the Purple Luther</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/11/i-prefer-the-purple-luther/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/11/i-prefer-the-purple-luther/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lutheranism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[You Can't Make This Stuff Up]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At first, I laughed at one line in this story about some artist who is placing 800 little colorful statues of Martin Luther all around Wittenberg, Germany, the home of Luther&#8217;s Reformation. Granted the small statues are a little cheesy, but then again, this gentleman is an artist and we aren&#8217;t supposed to understand artists. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Odd</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/10/its-not-odd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/10/its-not-odd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clergy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iovine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[See, it is not odd for a writer/reporter to enter the Office of the Holy Ministry, though this one is not entering Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. John Wilson, a columnist and editorial writer for the New York Post, is hanging up his pen and pad for some priestly vestments. The 25-year-old worked his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prison Escapee Went to Church&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/10/a-prison-escapee-went-to-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stmatthewsnj.org/blog/2010/08/10/a-prison-escapee-went-to-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. Iovine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, the title is not the start of a bad joke. It was happened in Wyoming. The Rev. Ron Kingston thought Tracy Province was just a down-on-his luck soul when he welcomed him into his church in Meeteetse, Wyoming, on Sunday morning. He would later be surprised to learn Province was a prison escapee and [...]]]></description>
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