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Greetings young Squire Sprouts.

Today is the third day in the fifth month in the year of our Lord

2025.

My name is Sir Roland Paderlott, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Rowland

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

Today we celebrate the feast of Saints Philip and. Today we celebrate the Feast of Saints Philip

and James, two of the original disciples. Both of these men had the honor of being chosen to live

with Jesus and in their martyrdom die for Jesus. Several months back, we had an episode titled

Dragons Around the House, where I gave you a common situation that could come up in

your home, and I gave you options of how you might respond to see what level of dragon slain you're at.

Many people wrote to me after that and said, more Dragons Around the House episodes, please.

Well, ask and you shall receive. So here is today's Dragons Around the House scenario. In your Easter

basket, you received a brand new hot chocolate mug with an awesome image of the blue

dragon of wrath and the words forgiveness slays wrath. Your parents gave it to you so that you could

sip warm hot chocolate on cold winter nights and remember to calm

your temper when it begins to boil over. When you first saw the mug, you were overwhelmed with joy

and pronounced, this is the coolest Easter basket gift ever. I mean, really, for those of you who

have read the books and have seen the Blue Dragon, you know that there's lightning bolts in

the wings.

While your four-year-old little brother got a sippy cup in his Easter basket because he has been prone to spill things quite often by dropping his cup or knocking it over

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