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Greetings, Young Squire Sprouds. Today is the sixth day in the eighth month in the year of our Lord 2022.

My name is Sir Roland Peterlott.

You're listening to Saturdays with Sir Roland on Catholic Sprouts where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon's slain.

Last week we started our series on the

Ten Commandments and talked about the first and greatest commandment that we should have no other

gods besides the one true God and that we should love God with all of our hearts. Today we continue

with the Second Commandment, which also involves loving God by honoring Him with our words.

The commandment states,

Thou shall not take the name of a Lord God in vain. How we speak to God and how we speak about God matters. We should address anybody in authority with dignity and respect, and God is the king of the

whole universe. If you own the Dragon Sair's Manual by Sir Wyver and Pugulist, the main dragon I want you to study from his manual this week is Stinkmouth.

With a name like Stinkmouth, you know that dragon wants you to use foul language and talk bad about God and others.

You've heard the phrase sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.

But we know that words can hurt, and your words have the power to lift people up or to make

them feel awful. St. James teaches us that we need to have a well-trained tongue. But it's not just about

using bad words. It's about using good words in the right way. The second commandment really focuses

on not using God's name in vain. The word vein here is not talking about those blood vessels

running through your body. It is vein spelled V-A-I-N, which has two definitions. It can mean to have an

excessively high opinion of yourself, or it can mean useless or without meaning or purpose. Those two definitions seem opposite,

but in this case, they actually go together. When somebody uses God's name in vain, it usually

means that they other the name of God almost like a curse word just to make their point, or even

to give their words more authority. Let me give you an example of using the exact same words in two different

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