CS 1707: Saints with Disabilities: Thursday
Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
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Summary
This week we are thrilled to welcome guest host Kelly Mantoan, a Catholic wife, mother, homeschooler, special needs parent and founder of ACCEPTING THE GIFT, a ministry for Catholic Parents of children with disabilities. Each day Kelly will introduce you to an incredible saint who, despite some sort of disability, pursued holiness and is now a saint in heaven.
+MONDAY: St. Germaine
+TUESDAY: St. Joseph of Cupertino
+WEDNESDAY: St. Alexius Kim Si U
+THURSDAY: Rene Goapil
+FRIDAY: St. Margaret of Costello
Kelly Mantoan is the founder of ACCEPTING THE GIFT, a ministry for Catholic Parents of children with disabilities. To learn more about this incredible ministry, and browse their incredible free resources, head to https://acceptingthegift.org/
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to |
| 0:08.0 | Catholic Sprouts, |
| 0:10.0 | the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. |
| 0:29.7 | Hello, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, October 24th, 2024. Today is also the feast of St. Anthony Mary Claret. I'm Kelly Mantone, the founder of accepting the gift, a ministry which supports the |
| 0:35.9 | parents of children with disabilities. I'm here as a guest |
| 0:39.0 | host on the Catholic Sprouts podcast to talk to you about some of my favorite saints, all of whom just |
| 0:44.9 | happen to have disabilities. Today, I want to tell you the story of Saint René Guppio. Renée lived in |
| 0:52.3 | France in the 1600s. As a young man, he studied to become a surgeon |
| 0:57.2 | before deciding to join the Jesuit order and become a priest. However, while he was still a novice, |
| 1:04.7 | he became deaf and lost his hearing. And the Jesuits told him that because of this, |
| 1:12.7 | he could no longer become a priest. |
| 1:18.1 | But even though he couldn't become a priest, he traveled to what is now Canada with the Jesuits to use his skills as a surgeon in the new world. |
| 1:22.6 | He arrived in Quebec and offered himself to them as a lay assistant, promising to obey the Jesuit |
| 1:29.6 | superior and work without salary. |
| 1:33.2 | He spent two years at a hospital run by sisters using his medical training to help injured |
| 1:39.0 | Native Americans. |
| 1:40.9 | But what Renee really wanted to do was work more actively towards converting Native Americans who had never heard of Jesus. |
| 1:48.2 | When Father Isaac Yogues arrived in Quebec, he needed volunteers with medical training, and so Renee was recruited to go with him. |
| 1:57.8 | They set out in canoes on the St. Lawrence River with a large group of missionaries and Hurons. |
| 2:04.7 | Hurons were one tribe of Native Americans living in this part of the world, and many had converted |
| 2:10.5 | to Christianity. René and the other Jesuits were going to minister to this new but growing Catholic |
| 2:16.6 | community. Only a few days into their journey, |
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