CS 1432: The First Week of Advent and Hope: Thursday
Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids
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🗓️ 7 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 Podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. |
| 0:30.3 | Hey there, sprouts. Today is Thursday, December 7th, 2003. Today is also the feast day of a church father, St. Ambrose. We'll be talking more about him soon, but for now, please join me in praying the family prayer for Advent. |
| 0:40.4 | In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. |
| 0:45.8 | God of love, your son, Jesus, is your greatest gift to us. |
| 0:50.9 | He is a sign of your love. |
| 0:53.1 | Help us walk in that love during the weeks of Advent. |
| 0:56.5 | As we wait and prepare for his coming, we pray this in the name of Jesus, our Savior. Amen. |
| 1:04.4 | So St. Ambrose. So St. Ambrose lived about a hundred years after St. Nicholas. |
| 1:12.8 | And the bad news is, you know, that heretic that St. Nicholas was fighting in the 300th, |
| 1:19.4 | well, Ambrose had to struggle with his followers even then. |
| 1:25.4 | This false teaching that Arian was passing around, it spread, and people believed it. |
| 1:31.2 | Some priests even believed it, some bishops, and certainly some emperors believed it. |
| 1:36.4 | And he got into the whole mess himself. |
| 1:40.0 | But first of all, St. Ambrose was born in France. |
| 1:43.4 | His father was a Roman official. |
| 1:45.7 | After his father died, he and his mother and his sister moved to Rome. |
| 1:50.7 | He was a brilliant man, and soon he was an appointed governor in the Roman system. |
| 1:57.2 | He lived in Milan then, and the bishop of Milan at the time had been a follower of the Aryan heresy. |
| 2:05.2 | After this bishop died, the whole city of Milan gathered and had a huge debate. |
| 2:11.6 | Should they elect another bishop that believed in the Aryan heresy, or should they go back to the original teaching |
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