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Hey there, Spouts. Today is Thursday, February 14th, 2019.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about purity.

We started by talking about our Lady of Lords in St. Bernadette.

Then we reflected on our own pristine baptismal gown and how we need to quest to keep it perfectly clean and to keep our

hearts pure. Yesterday we talked about modesty and how we need to keep certain parts of our body

veiled as respect for the wonderful loving God that created us. Today we are going to be talking about our eyes.

Now, that might seem like a funny thing to talk about this week when we're talking about purity,

but we need to remember that our eyes are like the windows to the soul.

Many philosophers have saints and have described it that way. And a lot of the times,

the things that we see, the things we allow our eyes to take in, can play a big impact on our purity.

And like we said, the things that we see and take in can stain that beautiful baptismal

gown that we had on our baptism. So we need to protect and really guard our eyes. Now, the

unfortunate truth is that in this world, there are lots of bad things that we can look at and that we can allow our eyes to take in.

Most of these things are pictures or videos.

And there can be lots of different ways that they can be bad. They can be overly

violent. They can use language that are not appropriate. We can watch people acting in horrible ways.

Or we can watch people that are not practicing modesty. Chances are your teachers and parents are watching out for you and only showing you

things that are good and pure and will lead to your holiness. But my friends, you will come to a day

where you get to make these decisions for yourself, where you get to decide what you are going to watch when you turn on Netflix,

where you get to decide what types of magazines you will pick up, and what sort of things you

will allow your eyes to take in. And in the world that we live in, there is a lot of temptation.

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