CS 1866: X is for Christ: Monday
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
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Summary
Yes, X is for Christ...in Greek! This week we are continuing our ABC's of the Catholic Faith with a look at various symbols used for Jesus, many of which use Greek letters! Each symbol teaches us something important about Jesus!
+ MONDAY: Chi Rho
+ TUESDAY: Alpha and Omega and IHS
+ WEDNESDAY: Fish and Lamb
+ THURSDAY: Sacred Heart and Fleur de Lis
+ FRIDAY: Cross and Crucifix
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to |
| 0:07.4 | Catholic sprouts |
| 0:09.6 | The daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey there, sprouts, today is Monday, April 28, 2025. This week, we are once again working our way through the ABCs of the Catholic faith. We're almost at the end. We have just a few letters to go through. This week, we are talking about the letter |
| 0:41.0 | X, which stands for Christ. Now, maybe that doesn't really make alphabetical sense to you, but we're actually |
| 0:50.5 | talking about the Greek alphabet today. And don't worry, we won't be going too deep into Greek. |
| 0:57.0 | But perhaps you have heard someone refer to Christmas as X-Miss. |
| 1:02.9 | Maybe you've seen it written that way. |
| 1:04.8 | At first, that might seem disrespectful. |
| 1:07.9 | But really, X is the first letter in the word Christ in the, when it's written in Greek. |
| 1:17.3 | So therefore, throughout the ages, throughout the birth of the church, X has been used as an |
| 1:23.8 | abbreviation for Christ's name. And in fact, it's been added to Jesus Christ, the first |
| 1:31.1 | letter of Jesus, the first letter of Christ, to make something we know as the Cairo, a sign I |
| 1:37.1 | bet you have seen before. And so this week, as we explore X is for Christ, we're going to be looking |
| 1:43.8 | at a whole bunch of different symbols for Jesus Christ that began in the early church. |
| 1:49.4 | Some of them, some of them still use today, some that are more modern, but all help us learn about who Jesus Christ was, is, and continues to be. |
| 2:04.4 | But before we dive into this, please join me in our April prayer, the Anima Christi. In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, |
| 2:12.9 | Amen. Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ save me, blood of Christ emboldened me, water from the side of Christ |
| 2:24.6 | wash me, passion of Christ strengthen me, good Jesus hear me, within your wounds hide me, never permit me to be parted from you from the evil enemy |
| 2:38.7 | defend me at the hour of my death call me and bid me come to you that with your saints i may |
| 2:46.7 | praise you for age upon age amen in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen. |
| 2:54.6 | Now, before we turn to this first Christian symbol we're talking about today, the Cairo, |
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