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Today is Friday, October 25th, 2019.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about the second gift of the Holy Spirit.

The first is fear of the Lord, step one. The second is piety, which is step

two. Now, when we talk about piety, the central thing to remember is the idea of family. God is

truly our father, and therefore we have a great reverence for divine worship, for making time for

prayer and the sacraments and really

being with our father. The next part of piety is to guard our interior holiness, meaning being aware

that we are in adoration chapel and taking that seriously and protecting that. But why do we do that? Because we know that we are a

beloved daughter or son of the Most High God and that this is our family, that just as we might be

proud of our last name or our family history, we are proud of the legacy of God and the fact that he dwells inside of us.

Yesterday we talked about how understanding that we are a child of God extends to every

person we meet. And the next part of piety, this great gift from the Holy Spirit, is having

compassion for others, for everyone else, and for treating them like family,

lovingly helping them, but also calling them to resist temptation.

Now finally today, we are going to take a minute to see the great gift of the Holy Spirit,

piety in action. And to do that, we are going to look at one of my favorite

saints, and that is St. Therese. Now, St. Teres celebrated her feast day earlier this month. It was

October 1st. And here is a little bit about St. Cherez. Now, St. Choraz belonged to a family of saints. You might know that both her mother

and her father were canonized as saints just a couple of years ago. Her father's name was Lewis

and her mother's name was Zelle. Together, they were married and they are saints.

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