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Greetings young Squire Sprouts. Today is the 24th day in the six month and the year of our Lord, 2023. My name is Sir Roland Paterlaught, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir

Roland on Catholic Sprouts where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slain. Today we celebrate the

nativity of St. John the Baptist. The church celebrates the nativity or birth of only three people,

Jesus, Mary, and St. John the Baptist. So that is quite an honor for John the Baptist. As you may

know, St. John the Baptist had a miraculous birth in much the same way Jesus did. His parents

were unable to have children, but the angel Gabriel appeared to Zachariah, who was John's dad,

and told him that his wife Elizabeth would have this baby, even in her old age, and he was to name him

John. The word John means God is gracious. God sent St. John the Baptist to be the forerunner of Jesus,

to help prepare the way for the coming of the Savior by preaching repentance and baptizing the

people. Jesus called himself the bridegroom who came to save his bride, and so St. John the Baptist

was like his best man at the wedding. Just like this legendary dragon slayer, we too are called to share the

good news of Jesus and point others towards Jesus. That is what John did. And my favorite quote

from St. John the Baptist was when he pointed out Jesus and said, He must increase and I must

decrease. Talk about slaying the red dragon. That is the type of humility we need to be dragon slayers.

We must give all glory and honor to Jesus. Last week, we talked about deadly dragon dominoes

and how if we don't take humility as a foundational virtue to slay the red dragon of pride,

a domino effect of dragons ensues and we get tripped up by more and more dragons. Let's ask St. John the Baptist's

intercession that we may attain the virtue of humility and that our one desire be to do the most

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