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Greetings young Squire Sprouts. Today is the 23rd day in the seventh month in the year of our Lord 2022.

My name is Sir Roland Paterlot.

You're listening to Saturdays with Sir Roland on Catholic Sprouts

for every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slain. Today, I'd like to

begin a very important series on commandments. What do you think of when you hear the word commandment?

It kind of sounds harsh, doesn't it? Like a strict rule you have to follow or else you're going to get

punished. We tend not to like rules to follow. Perhaps your parents give you certain rules. Maybe you have to

go to bed at a certain time, or you have to do your homework before you can play any games, or you have to

clean up your own mess, or maybe you have to make your bed, or clean your room, or wash the dishes,

or do certain chores, or maybe you're not allowed to put duct tape over your brother's mouth,

or pull the arms and legs off your sister's dolls or you can't start fires in the living room, you know, stuff like that.

Why do you think your parents give you so many rules or commandments?

Do you think they're just trying to be mean or selfish or make you jump through a bunch of hoops because they have all the power? Maybe if you ask your dad if you can have some ice cream and he

says no, do you automatically think, well, he just wants to eat all the ice cream himself? I think deep down,

you understand that your parents give you rules to follow because they love you. And dragons are

everywhere trying to trip you up. Many times on this podcast, we've talked about concupiscence,

that effect of original sin in which we struggle to do what is right. We desire things that

aren't good for us. Dragons can look so attractive, so alluring, so tempting, and disguise themselves

so well as something good that we need a game plan to fight against them. We just finished our summer

series on sports, and we learned some great virtues that can help us to fight against dragons,

but it's pretty hard to fight against something that you don't know anything about. I mentioned

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