Sookie Stackhouse can hear voices. Sookie is one of the two lead characters in the HBO racy vampire series “True Blood” and she has the uncanny ability to hear the thoughts of people as if they were speaking in an audible voice.  Sookie is a waitress in a backwater Louisiana small town bar, and her telepathic abilities often distract her as she hears the thoughts of customers who are attracted to her physical beauty, who are disgusted with the food served at Merlotte’s, or who are repulsed by her hospitality of vampires who — of course — are feared by most everyone and regarded at best as outcast citizens of the community.

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St. Francis of Assisi is attributed as having said, “Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.” So in the spirit of Holy Francis of old, let’s sing!

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