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Where Does Our Sense of the Eternal Come from in a Finite World? Msgr. Charles Pope • September 7, 2016 • A common reading at the funeral Mass is this powerful one from the Book of Ecclesiastes:I have considered the task that God has appointed for the sons of men to be busied about. He has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts, without man’s ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done (Eccl 3:10-11).Somewhere in our hearts is something that the world cannot, and did not, give...