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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is February 5th, 2019. It is also the feast day of St. Agatha, who was an early Christian martyr.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about how we are not called to the easy life.

And in all things and all ways, we need to resist creating heaven on earth here for ourselves

and instead trust in God's plan.

Evaluating our life and making sure that the things we are questing after, longing to do,

are things that bring glory to God, not just comfort to us. So today on the Feast of St. Agatha,

we have our first example from a saint of what it really means to trust in God's plan,

even when it feels like God might have no plan. He does have a plan, but oftentimes in the moment, it's hard to see that.

Now, as I said, St. Agatha was an early Christian martyr. She lived when the church was still under

persecution. That means that there was forces in the world that hated the Christian church.

They were trying to destroy it, suppress it, and make sure that no one was worshipping Jesus Christ.

St. Agatha lived in a pagan country, which means she lived among people that worshipped many, many gods.

St. Agatha was young when she died.

In fact, she was only 15 years old.

But, of course, this was a long, long time ago.

And at 15 years old, women were getting married at the time when St. Agatha lived.

She was a member of a rich family.

And she, on her own, had converted to Christianity.

With this conversion, she had decided that she would save herself, her body, her mind, her spirit,

everything exclusively for Jesus Christ. Although there weren't any nuns at the time because the church was so young, she essentially made the vow that any nun would make today,

to not marry and to keep herself preserved for Jesus Christ alone. However, people didn't necessarily

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