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Hey there, Spouts. Today is Friday, September 9th, 2020. Today is also the feast day of St. Peter Claver. St. Peter Claver was a Spanish Jesuit priest who was a missionary to Columbia. He thought he would arrive in Columbia and be ministering to the indigenous people there. But when he arrived, he was confronted

with the horrible reality of slavery, which was in full swing during his lifetime. Huge boats from

Africa would land on the coast of Columbia,

and he dedicated his life to serving those that had been kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Often many of them arriving very sick, very confused, very sad, families ripped apart and all sorts of horrible things.

But he gave his life ministering to them. He defended them. He converted them. He would go and

visit them on the plantations after they were sold. He was not a political leader, but he offered

endless, bottomless love for the poorest of the poor, the slaves in Colombia, taken from Africa.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are taking a note from our guide this month, Blessed Carlo Acudis, to really invest and reignite our love for the Eucharist, the highway to heaven. But before we get there,

let's pray the morning offering together, which we are memorizing this month. In the name of the

Father's Son, Holy Spirit, amen. O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my

prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day

for all the intentions of your sacred heart in union with the holy sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world,

for the salvation of souls, the reparation of sins, the reunion of all Christians,

and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father this month, amen.

So in our discussion about the Eucharist, we've already talked about the Last Supper, feeding the 5,000, how Jesus boldly said we need to eat his flesh and drink his blood and did not change that teaching

even when followers abandoned him. Rosa talked about what happened at the Last Supper, at Calvary,

and today we are going to talk about another story that happened after the resurrection.

This story is called The Road to Amas.

Now in the story, there's two followers of Jesus that we actually haven't met before.

They're not included in the original 12, so it helps us understand that there was a lot of people

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