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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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, October 18th. It is also the feast day of St. Luke,

the Evangelist. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been exploring what it means to be

Jesus Christ's follower. On Monday, we looked at the example of St. Teresa of Avala and how we learn from

her that in order to follow Jesus, we need to do his work. On Tuesday, we looked at St. Margaret

Mary Aliquoy, who received visions of the sacred heart of Jesus.

And from her, we learned that in order to be Jesus' follower,

we need to accept his love and in return offer him all of our love.

Yesterday, with the help of St. Ignatius of Antioch,

we learned that in order to follow Jesus,

we need to be willing to give him everything, even if, as in the case of St. Ignatius, it requires our life. And today, with the help of St. Luke, the evangelists, we will learn that in order to be a follower of Jesus,

we need to talk about him, to tell people about him, and to spread his holy message.

Now, St. Luke, the evangelist. We call him an evangelist because he was one of four people that wrote

the Gospels. There were four, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Now, a couple of the people that

wrote the gospel were disciples of Jesus. They knew him when he was alive and they

followed him. They were one of his chosen apostles. St. Luke was not one of those people. In fact,

tradition tells us that Luke was a Greek, meaning he was not Jewish. He was a foreigner and therefore probably wouldn't have been very well

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