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Hey there, sproutsouts. Today is Tuesday, October 1st, 2024. Today is one of my favorite

feast days of the whole year. Today is the feast day of St. Cherez of Lusu.

St. Cherez was a little French girl who grew up to be a French

Carmelite nun. She died when she was only 24 years old, and yet despite her short life,

despite the fact that she was very frail and pretty unremarkable, if you would have met her

during her lifetime. She has been

named a doctor of the church. Through her deep prayer life and relationship with Jesus Christ,

she found what she called the little way, the way to heaven for the rest of us. Now perhaps you're like me and you don't

work miracles. You don't have visions. And you're not this mighty, holy person that people are so

amazed to be around. I'm certainly very ordinary. And Cherez was ordinary too. And yet she found that the little things that she was

asked to do in her ordinary life, like laundry or talk to someone who annoyed her or prayer,

that all of these things could be done with great love, that all of these tiny little moments

were opportunities to be saints,

to sacrifice, to unite our lives with Jesus Christ, and to one day get to heaven.

So St. Cherez gives us all hope that we can be saints, that if God put the desire to be a saint on our hearts, there must be

a way for us to fulfill that desire, and that we too can be little saints, just like Cherez,

and enter heaven one day. Now, this week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about the letter

G, which stands for

grace. We talked yesterday, our very best to define what grace is, although it's a very tricky

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