The discomforts and agonies that attend ill-health and old age afford the opportunity and the invitation to participate in the redemptive value of Christ's suffering and death.

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The invitation to participate in NPR's early-evening meet-and-greet at this year's SXSW music festival came too late for me to find a reasonably priced non-stop flight into Austin.

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The Obama Administration's Department of Justice recently extended an invitation to former US attorney Andrew McCarthy to participate in a roundtable on counterterrorist policy.

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She greatly wished to participate, but as a volunteer accepting an invitation from a nonprofit group there was no money available.

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Rather, it is an invitation to all parts of society, within market-friendly policy frameworks, to participate in development.

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