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Greetings, young squire sprouts. Greetings, Young Squire Spouts.

Today's the 13th day in the seventh month in the year of our Lord, 2024.

My name is Sir Roland Paterla, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Roland on Catholic

Sprouts, where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slain.

Today we celebrate the feast of St. Henry. Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Henry.

St. Henry lived in the 10th and 11th centuries, and he was a German king and holy Roman emperor.

Despite having great wealth and power, Henry felt his primary duty as emperor was to strengthen the

church and spread the faith and exemplify charity. His generosity extended not only to the poor and the church,

but also to his enemies. He successfully ended many wars and uprisings, pardoning those who

rebelled against him and restoring peace to the kingdom. On a personal level, Henry was fond of prayer,

often visiting churches in each city he visited for extended periods of time. He harbored a deep devotion to the

mother of God, regularly received the sacraments, and pray the divine office. He also appointed

loyal and faithful bishops to shepherd the flocks. And of all the Holy Roman emperors that

ever lived over the centuries, St. Henry was the only one canonized a saint. So let's continue our series on the seven sacraments

of the Catholic Church and how they can help us face fight and defeat the seven deadly dragons.

We're spotlighting one particular dragon for each sacrament. So far we've discussed how reconciliation

helps us overcome the red dragon of pride and how baptism gives us the grace we need to defeat the orange dragon of envy.

Today we turn our attention to Acadia, the yellow dragon of sloth.

As usual, I'm going to let you guess which sacrament I'm going to spotlight to help us overcome this dragon.

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