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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, May 3rd, 2019. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

podcast, we have been looking at what it means to be an Easter people. And we have been doing

this by looking at some of the great saints from our Catholic faith. We've already looked at

St. Catherine of Siena and her remarkable life

and reminded ourselves that literally anything is possible when we walk through life with Jesus Christ.

We also looked at St. George, both the real St. George, who was a Christian martyr,

and the legendary St. George, who sleww the dragon and reminded ourselves that we need not

fear Satan because Jesus defeated him. We've also looked at St. Joseph the worker and been reminded

that there is dignity in work and that we can bring God to work with us, just like St. Joseph

did. Yesterday we looked at St. Zoe, who was a slave

and early Christian martyr, and we were reminded that as an Easter people, we need not fear death

because our true home is heaven. Today we are going to look at two more saints, St. Philip and St. James. Both of these men

were apostles, meaning they were part of Jesus' inner circle while he was on earth. Jesus called

them specifically to be his followers. Jesus taught them.

They witnessed the miracles that Jesus performed.

And after Jesus rose and then ascended into heaven, they went out and preached the good news.

Now, we don't know a lot about these two men in particular.

In fact, we only hear about St. Philip in the gospels twice. We hear right when Jesus calls him, that St. Philip seems to be a pretty

enthusiastic guy. Immediately after meeting Jesus, he runs to find his friend Nathaniel and

tell him that this is the person we've been

waiting for. This is the Messiah. We also hear from him at the multiplication of loaves.

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