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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, December 7th, 2018. It is also the feast day of St. Ambrose.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about Advent, the season of the year that we are in right now.

We talked about how Advent is a time of waiting. We talked

about the symbolism behind the Advent wreath and the Advent candles. We also started talking

about the Jesse Tree, the ancestors of Jesus Christ in all the hundreds of years as the Israelites

spent waiting for the Savior to come.

We've talked about Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel.

Yesterday we talked about Noah and the Flood.

And today we are going to talk about Abraham and his son, Isaac.

Now, if you're doing the Jesse Tree with your family, you know that Abraham and

Isaac are on two different days. And there are actually many, many stories in the Bible in the first book,

the book of Genesis, about Abraham. Abraham is seen as the father of the Israelite nation. Now the Israelite nation are who we call

today the Jewish people. They are people that God chose. God chose Abraham first because he

was faithful because he didn't worship idols like the rest of the people that he

lived with, and because he listened to God and went where God directed him to go.

So Abraham is the first person, the first member of these chosen people that God worked with to change their hearts so that they might be able to receive the Savior of the world.

The only problem was Abraham was very old when God first started talking to him, And so was his wife. And they didn't have any

children. So how could an old man and an old woman without any children be the mother and father

of a great nation? Well, it seems impossible, but as we know, nothing is impossible with God.

Even though when God told Sarah that she would be a mother, Sarah was Abraham's wife, she laughed.

But it was true. Because God willed it to be so, in their old, old age, Abraham and Sarah became parents.

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