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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Tuesday, March 25th, 20205th. Today is also the feast of the Annunciation. And this makes perfect sense because today is March 25th. What is exactly nine months from today?

Well, it's December 25th, Christmas. So today we celebrate the angel appearing to Mary

and proclaiming the good news that Jesus would be her son, that God was coming the Messiah, and that he would be conceived

in her womb. She said yes, and Jesus entered her womb. Today is also a feast day of one of my

favorite saints, St. Margaret of Clithro, who was an English martyr. She was pretty much just an

ordinary wife and mother. She had the duties that any wife and mother had, but she lived during

a dangerous time after the Protestant Reformation. She actually was raised Protestant,

but when she encountered Catholics and investigated the faith,

she realized that the Catholic Church was the true church.

And she began to not only practice her faith and refuse to go to Protestant services,

but she also hid priests in her home.

At the time, it was a crime to be a priest, so she would hide them in

little cupboards in her house and actually have other people over for the sacrifice of the mass

secretly in her home. Eventually, she was discovered. She was put on trial and convicted of helping Catholic priests,

and she was pressed to death on this day in 1586. On that year, it was not only the feast of the

enunciation, but it was also Good Friday. Now, this week on the Catholic Spouts podcast,

we are talking about tradition.

But before we return to that topic,

please join me in praying our March prayer,

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