These Sundays leading up to Holy Week provide for us some of the longest scripture readings of the entire year. In considering how I might shorten these gospel texts, I was reminded of an internet site called "Book a Minute." Their motto tells you all you need to know, for it says: "When even Cliff Notes are too long." So I looked up a few of the edited books on their website, and this is what I found.

Remember Dr. Seuss' story "Green Eggs and Ham"? This is how "Book a Minute" tells it:

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