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Hey there, Sprowds. Today is Friday, September 20th, 2019. It is also the feast day of Korean Martyrs, St. Andrew Kim Tagon, and his other companions. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about friendship, not only how to find good friends, but how to be a good friend.

We have talked about the first aspect of a good friendship, which is a shared faith in Jesus Christ.

Next, complete trust, then a willingness to forgive, and finally, a generous heart.

Today we're going to talk about the final aspect of a good and strong friendship, and that is

courage. Now, this might seem like a strange thing to talk about with friendship, but it is actually

incredibly important.

And to understand a little bit better, let's talk about our saints that we are celebrating

today.

So St. Andrew Kim Tagon and Paul Chong, they were both Korean martyrs. Now, when they were

martyred, which was not that long ago, the Christian faith was coming to Korea, and it was

being practiced, practiced quite zealously, especially by those that were martyred today.

But it was not welcome.

It was seen as a Western influence, and those that would not renounce their faith were

martyred.

What's interesting about today's feast day is that we have several men that were martyred together. They were united

in friendship. They were united, first of all, in their faith in Jesus Christ. They had complete

trust that they wouldn't abandon each other. And they were generously giving their lives out of love for Jesus Christ.

So this is an extreme example of people bonded together in friendship and demonstrating together

extreme courage. Now, that's one way that courage can manifest itself in friendship. There is a much

simpler way and a way that we all will have to deal with. We need to be brave in our friendships

so that we can correct our friends. Now, this might be one of the trickiest things

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