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Greetings young Squire Sprouts. Today is the 25th day in the second month in the year of our Lord, 2024. My name is Sir Roland Paterlot. You're listening to Sundays with Sir Roland on

Catholic Sproutes where every Sunday during Lent, we discuss the Sunday readings through the lens

of dragon slain. This week, the theme that I picked we discuss the Sunday readings through the lens of dragon slain.

This week, the theme that I picked out of the Sunday readings is the word trust. Do you trust God?

Do you truly believe that God wants you to be happy even more than you want it for yourself?

It's easy to say that we trust God when things are going well and things are really easy,

but challenges

and trials and temptations can really test our faith in him. How's your Lent going so far? Lent is

supposed to be a time of trials and testing. Maybe some of your non-Cathic friends are enjoying a nice,

big, juicy hamburger on Friday at lunch, and you think to yourself, man, I wish I could have

a hamburger instead of this

salad. Or maybe you gave up video games and all your friends are talking about the new game they just

got and they want you to come over and play and you have to say, uh, I can't. I gave that up for Lent.

Sometimes the Catholic Church ask us to do really hard things or make sacrifices and other people

might think we're crazy, or see

the church as an arbitrary set of rules or regulations. It can be tempting to see those rules and

regulations as hoops that some dictator God is trying to make us jump through instead of a father

who's training us to be something great. But we don't have a God who just tells us what to do.

We have a loving father, a God just tells us what to do. We have a loving father, a God who

shows us what to do. In today's first reading, I want you to put yourself in the story for a moment.

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