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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, July 10th, 2024. Today we celebrate two sisters who were martyrs in the early church. Their names are

Antolia and Victoria of Rome, and they both died in the year 250. Like so many saints, these two

women grew up in the same family. Together, they encountered the Christians accepted to the

faith and decided to commit their lives to Jesus Christ, even though they knew they would

probably die martyrs, which they did.

In fact, the sisters were locked in a room with a poisonous snake.

When the snake refused to bite them, they both were martyred by being stabbed in the neck.

Now, I know that that's a brutal story, and it's hard to hear that people died simply for being

Christians. But this reminds us how powerful our sibling bonds can be, and that as siblings,

we have a duty to not only care for our siblings, but to challenge them to truly be followers of Jesus.

And so I challenge you today to pray for your siblings or cousins or

very, very close friends who are like siblings to you. Pray for them that not only you can have a strong

bond, but also that you can challenge each other to get to heaven. This week on the Catholic

Sprout's podcast, we are talking about the fourth truth of the

corigma that we need to reorient out our lives, that we need to believe in the gospel,

which is the good news of God's saving love.

We are talking about the three key actions involved in this, which are leaving behind sin that we talked about

yesterday. And today we are going to be talking about accepting God's mercy. Before we get that,

please join me in our July prayer, Anima Christi. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

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