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Today is Friday, August 26th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we're talking about the universal call to holiness,

how if we all become holy will change the world.

How love, love for Jesus Christ is the motivation to become holy, to do more than the bare minimum.

Talks about the first two parts of this, how any normal Christian can become holy.

Number one, practicing virtue, especially faith, hope, and love.

Number two, prayer, which is a relationship with Jesus Christ. And today we're going to talk about grace. Now, what is grace? Well, grace is something utterly undescribable, but I hope that you experience it in your life

as a Christian. Grace is God's gift of himself. Now, that maybe is still really hard to understand,

but think about this. We know that God is the source of all things good. He is the source

of truth, the source of beauty, of the source of love. He is love himself. So God is all things good.

And we receive part of God. God gives us a piece of himself. And that piece of

himself is grace. It is what carries us through. It is what allows us to practice virtue. Because, you know, on our own, we're pretty imperfect. We struggle. We fall down.

Grace is what allows us to forgive ourselves to keep going. Grace is what bonds two people together

through the sacrament of marriage and makes a family. Grace is what allows us to do things we never thought possible

with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And so as you can tell from my descriptions, hopefully,

we can receive grace all sorts of ways, but the number one way, the way that we receive the most

grace is through the sacraments.

In fact, the sacraments are like a super high way of grace.

We get like supercharged, crazy amounts of grace through the sacraments.

So here is what I want you to know. We have sacraments that we have received,

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