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Today is Friday, January 11th, 2019.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about holiness.

We talked about how becoming holy means becoming more like God and less trapped in sin. We become more like God who is love,

who is mercy, and who is faithful. We also talked about how becoming like God means that we need to

let him take control and that he is at the door of our heart knocking, we simply need to let him in.

We also took a pointer from St. Cherez and St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta that when we strive for holiness,

we are not striving for success, but we are determining to be faithful.

Yesterday we started talking about the concept of virtue, which is how we break down holiness

into smaller categories so that we can really examine our life and quest after it. We talked

about the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love. These are the topics that we are

going to be covering on the coming weeks of Catholic sprouts.

But before we dive into the specifics of faith, hope, and love, let's talk about virtue a little bit.

Now, one of my best, one of my favorite ways to describe virtue comes from St. Therese.

St. Teresese. St.

Therese talks about when we have a virtue, even when we're like naturally good at something,

we should not take pride in that.

For example, there are some people that are just naturally more cheerful and naturally more

pleasant and loving towards other people.

There's others that can be kind of moody and mean. But we should never take pride in the fact

that we have a certain virtue because she told us to think about it this way. A virtue is a gift

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