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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, January 4th, 2019. It is also the feast day of a great

American saint today. Today is the feast day of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. St. Elizabeth

Ann Seton is the first American-born saint. She is also remarkable because she was

married, a mother of five children, and after her husband died, she became a religious. She founded an

order, started a private Catholic school for girls, the first one in this country, and went on to give her life in loving

service for children and those in need. So I encourage you to celebrate this wonderful saint,

St. Elizabeth, and Seton today. This week on the Catholic Spratz podcast, we have been talking

about family, and we have been using the

holy family as an example of this and as proof that each and every family is a blessed

institution. We talked about motherhood with the example of Mary, the mother of God,

talked about the role of a mother, and also that we have a perfect,

wonderful mother in heaven that we can run to. We also talked about fatherhood. We talked about

God the father and St. Joseph, who was the father of the holy family. Yesterday on the feast day of the most holy name of Jesus,

we talked about how Jesus, one of the names that he was called on earth, was son or child.

And by Jesus being a son in a family, we know that the role of being a child, the son or a daughter,

is a blessed thing,

and that we have a beautiful example in Jesus Christ and to follow and to make our role as a child

holy. Today, we are going to go back and talk about the family in general. Now, I remember growing up, a lot of times we can feel that what we do in our family or with

our family is unimportant.

The things we do at school, the things we do once we are grown up and move out of the

house, that that's what's important. And it might be

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