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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, October 19th, 2018. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

podcast, we have been talking about what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ. On Monday,

we looked at St. Teresa of Avala and were reminded that we need to do the work of

Jesus if we are going to follow him. On Tuesday, we looked at St. Margaret Mary Aliquoy. She was the

nun who received the visions of the sacred heart of Jesus. And from those visions, we know that in order to follow Jesus, we need to accept his

love and send all of our love back to Jesus in return. Wednesday was a feast day of St. Ignatius of Antioch.

He was an early bishop in the church who was martyred in Rome.

And from his example, we know that in order to follow Jesus, we need to be willing to give

up everything if that is what Jesus demands. Yesterday was the feast day of St. Luke,

the evangelist, who authored both the gospel and the acts of the

apostle. From him, we learned that in order to be Jesus' follower, we need to talk about him. We need to

spread his message and introduce others to the loving Lord Jesus Christ.

Now today, we don't have a feast day to talk about.

So we are going to talk about you.

We have all of these wonderful examples from the saints in the Catholic faith about what it means to be a follower of Jesus,

all the saints that we celebrated this week,

and many more. And yet it comes down to you. You have one life to live and you have an important

decision to make. And that decision is this. Will you follow Jesus? Now before you

answer that, I want you to realize something. When you choose to follow Jesus, you choose to allow God

to completely transform your life.

Now, most of this will be a great and wonderful transformation,

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