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.

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Today is Wednesday, August 29th, 2018. It is also the feast of the beheading of St. John the Baptist.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are tackling the topic of prayer. With the help of St. Monica on Monday, we talked about what prayer

actually is. On Tuesday, with the help of St. Augustine, we talked about why prayer is so important.

And today, with the help of St. John the Baptist, we are going to talk about how we pray during

difficult times. Do you know the story of St. John the Baptist? He, of course, was the cousin of Jesus.

He baptized Jesus in the Jordan. But after he was done baptizing Jesus, St. John the Baptist was arrested

and held by an evil king. The evil king didn't really have any intention of beheading John

the Baptist, but his wife, who was jealous of St. John the Baptist and did not like what he was

saying about her choices, asked for his

head on a platter. And the king agreed. So St. John the Baptist was killed. Now, chances are you

aren't going through quite as hard of a thing as St. John the Baptist did, and yet we all face

hard times and struggles. Maybe you've lost someone that you've loved. Maybe you've gone through a

hard time at school where you didn't have close friends or felt left out. Whatever the situation is,

we all go through suffering, and it is important

that while we suffer, we pray. However, it can be hard to pray when we're suffering. Sometimes,

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