FOR THE LEADER: We're doing this practice WITH the community, not TO the community, so let us use "we" language throughout. Let us warm, even playful tone at the beginning. This isn't heavy penance—it's honest inventory. We're creating space for encounter, not inducing guilt. Key principle: We're PARKING things, not discarding them. They'll be there after Mass if people want to pick them back up. This isn't permanent transformation—it's...
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