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Mammon, the Demon of Greed, by Victor Mod a Lections: The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost ( Lectionary 19 ), AD 2025 C Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. About a thousand years ago, Paris had a Viking problem. The Danes, or the Norse—Franks had difficulty distinguishing the two—kept sailing up the Seine and sacking gay Paree. So Charles the Simple, true to his name, devised a simple solution: he would fight fire with fire; or in this case, Vikings with Vikings. King Charles ennobled Hrolf Ganger, a man so gigantic that he could not find horses to hold him, dubbing him Duke Rollo the Wise. And he gave to Rollo’s Northmen a great chunk of the Gallic coastline—known ever after as Normandy—on the twin conditions that he (a) keep out his fellow Scandinavians, and (b) convert to Christianity. Rollo wisely accepted. The fiefdom he founded thereby ...
