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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, December 14th, 2018. It is also the feast day of St. John of the Cross.

Now before we get into Moses once again today, let's talk a little bit about our saint of the day, St. John of the Cross.

St. John of the Cross was a Carmelite, and he worked very

hard, along with St. Teresa of Avila, to reform the Carmelite order in a time when it was

desperately in need of reform. St. John of the Cross also wrote some many beautiful spiritual

works that encourage us today to dive

even further into prayer and to explore the mystery of God.

So this week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about Moses.

Moses was an Israelite, even though the Israelites were enslaved at the time he was raised

as an Egyptian prince. Eventually, he was exiled, worked as a shepherd, encountered God on the top of Mount Sinai in a burning bush, and returned to Egypt to do God's work of leading the Israelite nation to freedom.

After many plagues in Egypt, including the last plague, where God sent his angel of death to kill

the firstborn in each family, and he passed over the doors of the Israelites who were marked with the blood of a lamb.

After that plague, Pharaoh finally gave in, and he granted freedom to the Israelite nation.

So the Israelites packed up their things, and this is a huge, huge nation. If you can imagine thousands upon thousands

of people traveling together, they left Egypt. But the big question was, where do they go now?

Because they were slaves. They didn't have land to go to or a lot of money to help them buy land.

They left Egypt completely trusting on the providence of God. So they traveled and not long after

they left Egypt, Pharaoh changed his mind. He decided that he really was a God and then he would go and get his slaves back.

So Pharaoh assembled his army in their chariots and they chased after the Israelite people.

They caught up to them at the shores of the Red Sea. But God did not abandon them. God put a pillar of fire between the nation of Israel

and Pharaoh's army. He protected them, but where would they go? They were trapped with the sea on one

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