Hey Spouts, during the months of June and July, we will not be having new content here on the Catholic Sprouts podcast. Instead, we will be revisiting some of my favorite weeks of content. And here is one of those weeks. Enjoy.

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Hello, Sprouts. Today is Augustth, 2018. This week on Catholic Sprouts, we have talked about the little way of St. Terese. We talked about our elevator to heaven. That's Jesus's arms. We talked about how we're called to be beautiful flowers that bloom for the glory of God.

We've talked about how we might not be called to do great things, but we are called to do small

things with great love. And yesterday we talked about how we might be called to do great things.

But before that, we might be called to do great things. But before that, we are absolutely

called to do a million little things so that Jesus can give us the strength and the courage

to do those great things when they come along. Today, we are going to talk about perhaps the

greatest thing that we can do, which is love each other.

But we're going to be honest.

Sometimes it's hard to love people.

Sometimes we find someone annoying.

Sometimes we just don't get along with them. And sometimes we just get so angry that we don't

want to be around them anymore. And yet, in the little way, we are reminded that we are called to do

small things, a million small things each day with great love. Now, this doesn't mean that we do

some things with love and other things with anger or irritation. It means that we do everything

with love. But how are we supposed to love people that we don't even like people that we find obnoxious?

Well, St. Cherez has a story about that. St. Cherez wrote about how one nun, a fellow nun, in the convent

she belonged to, was just irritating. She was very hard to be around. The thing she would say, the way

she would do it, no one really wanted to spend time with her. Even St. Cherez, she admitted that

she didn't really like this nun. And yet, she knew that the path to holiness was paved with a million little things done

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