You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast with you all as we continue to plant seeds of faith to grow in our

faith and together to become saints. Now that is what we are going to be talking about this week

on the Catholic Spouts podcast. We are going to be talking about our collective New Year's resolution to become saints.

We are going to be doing this in a lot of ways.

But before we get to that, I want you to reflect on something that a famous Catholic said not that long ago.

His name was J.K. Chesterton. And he said

this. He said that the Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found

difficult and left untried. No, that might be a little bit confusing to hear,

so let me explain it.

What he's saying is that there aren't people in history

or in the world today that have really tried everything

that our church, that Christianity offers,

and they've been disappointed.

That hasn't happened.

What has happened instead is that there's a lot

of people that have looked in at Christianity, looked in at the life that Christ is asking us to lead.

They thought it was difficult and they turned away and didn't even try. And so, let's just keep this in mind.

Being a saint, letting go of sin following Jesus,

it's not going to be easy.

And Jesus didn't promise us that it would be easy.

But he tells us it's possible.

And he tells us, and all of the saints in heaven tell us

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