CS 1430: First Week of Advent and Hope: Tuesday
Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
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Summary
It's Advent! Get the season right by reflecting on the virtue of Hope.
+ MONDAY: Hope teaches us to live for heaven and allows us to endure the current suffering of this life.
+ TUESDAY: The Star of Bethlehem and the Good Shepherd are important symbols of Hope.
+ WEDNESDAY: It's the feast of St. Nick! Learn about the real man behind the legend of Santa.
+ THURSDAY: It's the feast of St. Ambrose! Learn about this important man, and the even more important man he lead to the Faith.
+ FRIDAY: It's the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary! Learn about this feast and reflect on Mary as the Star of Hope guiding us to heaven.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to |
| 0:07.4 | Catholic sprouts |
| 0:09.6 | The Daily Podcasts for Catholic kids |
| 0:13.4 | that strives to plant seeds of faith. |
| 0:29.4 | Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, December 5th, 2020. We are still in the second week of Advent talking about hope, but before we return to that topic, please join me in |
| 0:35.5 | praying the family prayer for Advent. In the name of the |
| 0:39.6 | Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. God of love, your son, Jesus, is your greatest |
| 0:47.3 | gift to us. He is a sign of your love. Help us walk in that love during the weeks of Advent as we wait and prepare for his coming. |
| 0:58.0 | We pray in the name of Jesus our Savior. Amen. So yesterday we started talking about the virtue of hope, |
| 1:06.3 | that hope is a confident confidence in God that heaven will be our reward and hope is the virtue that |
| 1:14.1 | makes martyrs. And so today we are going to continue to talk about hope specifically how |
| 1:20.4 | hope shows up during Advent. So there are two strong symbols for hope and one of them guides us through Advent. |
| 1:29.7 | That symbol is the star of Bethlehem. |
| 1:34.2 | Now, why is the star of Bethlehem a symbol of hope? |
| 1:38.3 | Well, think about it from a scientific point of view, right? |
| 1:43.1 | The star, we know, is a ball of gas burning millions and millions |
| 1:48.1 | of miles away. And yet, when Jesus was born, when Jesus became a tiny baby, all of a sudden |
| 1:56.0 | this star appeared. Now, we know, according to science, that stars don't just appear, right? They come into being |
| 2:03.0 | slowly over millions of years. And yet, a star just appeared, a brilliant star, that lighted |
| 2:10.2 | the way to the place where Jesus was born, that wise men were able to follow this star and come |
| 2:16.6 | and find him. So why is this a symbol of hope? |
| 2:20.0 | Well, it is a reminder that our God who created the world is the Lord of the universe, that he can do |
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