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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Hey there, Sprouts.

Today is Friday, August 31st, 2018. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about prayer. On Monday, with the help of our friend St. Monica,

we talked about what prayer actually is. On Tuesday, with the help of our friend St. Augustine,

we talked about why we need to pray every day. On Wednesday, with the help of St. John the

Baptist, we talked about how we might pray during times of suffering. Yesterday, we talked about the greatest form of prayer that we can do,

which is attending Holy Mass. Today, we are going to talk about a way that God continues to speak to

us through prayer even today. We are going to talk about His Holy Word that we have in the Bible.

So, as I said before, praying is not just about talking, is not about just coming to God and

telling him all of our needs and then leaving. Prayer is also about listening.

Remember, God has a beautiful design for each of our lives. He created us, and he created us

with a plan, with a beautiful design for our lives. But sometimes it can be kind of confusing and overwhelming

to try to figure out what that plan is. Well, here's the secret sprouts. We're not supposed to

figure it out on our own. We're supposed to figure it out with God. And so we go and we pray and we listen,

but sometimes it doesn't really feel like God has much to say. It just feels very quiet.

Well, that's normal. Even adults feel that way. But a beautiful way to find out what God is really

intending for you is to read His Holy Word in the Bible. The Bible, of course, is made up of the Old

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