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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, September 19th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

podcast, we have been talking about friendship, how to choose good friends for ourselves,

but also be good friends for others. We've already talked about three important aspects of a good

friendship. Number one, a shared faith in Jesus Christ. Number two, complete trust. And number three,

a willingness to forgive. Today we're going to move on to a fourth important characteristic of friendship,

and that is generosity. Now, to really understand how far we can go with generosity, we are going to

look at our two saints and the remarkable friendship that they shared.

We've already talked about them this week, but we're going to talk about them again.

And these two friends were St. Clair of Assisi and St. Francis of Assisi.

Now, both of these two individuals lived at the same time in Italy.

They were both from fairly wealthy, fairly well-to-do families, and they both decided to

radically follow Jesus Christ despite the fact that their families didn't really want

them to. Their families had plans for them, that they would continue the family business,

or make a really good marriage and live a ordinary life like they had grown up,

enjoying all the good things in life

and being part of the upper class in Italy.

But both of them looked at this life

and decided that they wanted to live differently,

to live radically for God.

They wanted to give everything away. Not only their possessions, but their

status. And for St. Clair, even ordinary life, St. Clair started a order of nuns that were

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