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Catholic Sprouts

The Daily Podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.

Hey there, Spouts.

Today is Tuesday, January 2, 2020.

Today is also the feast day of a whole bunch of saints, St. Basil the Great, his friend Gregory,

but not only that, St. Basil the Great's sister and mother and father

and grandparents, they're all saints. And we're celebrating them all today. But before we get to that,

St. Basil the Great and many of his relatives were incredible students. I know many of you are currently students.

So this month in the BSA Kids Club, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is challenging us to say the prayer

for students each day. You can find the words to this prayer in the notes for this podcast.

So if you will please join me in saying this prayer. In the name of the Father

and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Lord our God, in your wisdom and love, you surround us

with the mysteries of the universe. Send your spirit upon us and fill us with your wisdom and blessings. Grant that we may

devote ourselves to our studies. Through them, draw us ever closer to you the source of all

knowledge. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen. So like I said, today is the feast day of St. Fasel the Great. So he among his friends and siblings and parents and grandparents

is probably the most well known of all these saints because he is a pretty big deal. He is a father of the church. He lived a long time ago.

So he lived in the 300th and lived a long time ago. So he lived in the 300s. And just a little

quick history, Jesus ascended back up into heaven roughly in the year 33. And then for the next

300 years, the church suffered terrible persecution from the Roman government. However, when St. Basil the Great was very young,

that persecution ended when Constantine the Great, the emperor, actually converted to Christianity.

And following this, the Roman Empire became Christian. So St. Basil the Great, his grandparents had been persecuted for the faith

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