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Hey there, Spouts. Today is Tuesday, October 1st, 2019, and is also the feast day of St.

Teres. Now, if you have been listening to the Catholic Spouts podcast for any time at all,

then you know that we love St. Teres. So before we go back to our topic for the week,

let's talk about this great saint. Now, St. Torres was a French nun who lived over a hundred

years ago. And although she died young when she was still in her early 20s, She is a doctor of the church. She entered a

Carmelite monastery when she was still quite young and died there. So what in the world did she

do that really changed this world enough that we proclaimed her a doctor of the church?

Well, she showed us a new way to holiness.

She taught us about something called the little way,

which she referred to as the way to holiness for the rest of us.

So if you're a normal person, if you aren't perfect, if you can't help but give into the temptation of sin,

if you sometimes struggle with laziness because you prefer not to pray or not to give of what you have to those that are in need,

then the little way to holiness is the way for you.

The little way is a way to holiness that values everything that we do, the hidden things,

the tiny sacrifices that no one notices, but we know that nothing is small to God.

The little way to holiness also is a call to embrace your littleness

and to remember that God is our almighty father and he wants nothing more than us to allow him to love us.

In the way that an enduring father would love us, pick us up when we fall and hold us close to

him on his lap and whisper that he loves us. So let's all be like St. Teres today and strive for

holiness in the big ways, but also in the little ways. So this week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about the Holy Bible, about

scripture.

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