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Greetings, young Squire Sprouds. Today is the fifth day in the 11th month in the year of our Lord 2022.

My name is Sir Roland Paterlot, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Roland on Catholic Spouts

where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slain.

Today we continue our discussion on Kina, the red dragon of pride. We have discussed how Keenodox is the corruption of all that is good,

true, and beautiful about the color red. The red dragon is selfish, arrogant, prideful, and disobedient.

It thirst to be first, because it wants power over others. Last week we talked about

how Mary is the legendary dragon slayer who can teach us how to slay Kina-Ox. She is the antidote

to this dragon's venom because she can teach us to use this weapon that can pierce the dragon's hide.

For each of the seven deadly dragons, I have chosen a medieval weapon that will represent for us the virtue that slays the dragon.

The weapons I have chosen in no particular order are the balister, pike, or spear, the warbow, the sword, the axe, or halberd, the dagger, and the trebusha.

What are all these weapons, you asked? Patience's young sprouts. We will

discuss them all in due time, but today we focus on Mary's weapon of choice to slay Kinawks,

which is humility. And which weapon shall I choose to represent humility? I'm going to go with

the sword. It is the most simple and common weapon used by medieval knights. There's

nothing fancy about a sword, and a dragon would probably laugh at you if you came at it with a simple

sword. It would bellow in its arrogant voice. No sword can pierce my hide, you fool? I'll admit,

if I were fighting a dragon like the ones we draw pictures of with large wings and thick scales like

armor and horns and sharp teeth and a furnace for lungs that we draw pictures of with large wings and thick scales like armor

and horns and sharp teeth and a furnace for lungs that can scorch me with a menacing breath of fire,

I would never even want to get close enough to be able to use a sword against a dragon.

Seems like an impossible task. But that is just it. Humility believes in the impossible.

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