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Today is Tuesday, February 7, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about the prayer, Anna McChristy,

which we are challenged to memorize this month. But before we break into this beautiful

ancient prayer, join me in reciting it. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

Amen. Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ save me. Blood of Christ enebrate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me.

Passion of Christ strengthened me. Good Jesus, hear me. Within your wounds, conceal me. Do not

permit me to be parted from you. the evil foe protect me at the hour of my death

call me and bid me come to you to praise you with all your saints forever and ever amen so yesterday

we talked about how this is an ancient prayer of our church, St. Ignatius

of Laola prayed it, countless other saints. And when we commit these words to memory and really

turn to them as our prayer of Thanksgiving after we receive the Holy Eucharist, we are joining

this ancient and powerful tradition,

and that is really exciting. So let's look at these first two lines. So we can better understand

them, better understand what we are celebrating and asking of Jesus through this prayer. So the first two lines are,

Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. So with these two lines together,

what we're reminded of is a reminded of the great mystery of Jesus Christ,

something that we proclaim in the creed. And that is that Jesus was both fully human and

fully God. 100% human and 100% God. Now that's a mystery that we can't really wrap our minds around,

but we know that it is true. And this prayer reminds us that there was two incredible parts of

Jesus, that there was his divinity, but also his humanity. And present in the Eucharist are both

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